Haven't been updating my blog for a really long time. This could probably mean two things, either nothing interesting is going around my life that I have nothing to write about, -or- there's way too much going around my life that I don't really have enough time on my hand to write about it. Apparently, the last time I wrote was last March, and it's been 5 months. Well, I'm glad to tell you for sure the last 2 months have been the later case. Now, I definitely have soooo many things to document (documenting my life, experience, etc). Tons of things are in my head, that I really should put them all here in order not to forget it and share it with the rest of you. But not yet right now, I'll be writing pieces of them in the coming days/weeks/months, whenever I have the time (I couldn't promise you when) and when I'm in the mood to write it :). This second case is actually the most difficult. A friend of mine once told me, it's not necessarily the task itself that took a long time, but it's the time to start the task which might took a really long time. What a great procrastinator (now, this is definitely a word that I just learned about). But I couldn't agree more, it took me a long time to come to this writing-mood mode :). But once you do, you'll want to write like, hmm, like you want to write forever. Now I got to stop, because I have to start that other works, don't I? :).
Anyway, enough the prelude, the reason I'm writing is I'd like to dedicate this special time and blog space to my Dear Lord Jesus Christ. For what? Well, for everything. We wouldn't really need a reason to thank Him, wouldn't we? He has given us, who believes Him, the greatest gift of all, His Son to be our Saviour, and what could we possibly ask for more? Nothing, zip, nada, zero. Nevertheless, He's still giving me so much much more than I had ever expected or imagined! Way things beyond my own capability, strength, and dreams. And if I could make it so far, no, it's really not me, but thank Him. There have been lots of tiny-to-huge bad/good things that happened, and they're just too unfortunate to be called coincidences or lucks. These are things that God intefered, things that I might not even realize as His inteference, but believe me they are. Hope I didn't forget it and could write more details in the coming days. So, let all glory be to Him.Now you all might be wondering. Ok, just to give you a sneak preview, check this out:
TopCoder Open 2005 comp-dev press release.. Now, you know I really mean what I wrote above. Thank you again dear Lord. I'd also like to thank TopCoder, with all its staff, for giving me this golden opportunity.
One very special thanks to my wife too who's been very supportive and encouraging these days. She's also my main motivator. Without her, this might not possibly happen as well. So thank you my wife. Love ya.
Oh, last but not least, congratulations to Ardian Kristanto Poernomo again for doing so extraordinarily well. He made it to TCO05 final at the algorithm side. WOW! Wish you the best for the on-site final.