Day 307 at the new company

It has been 307 days since the day I got officially hired here at GUS. Time has indeed flown damn fast.

The work here is great. It's what I want to do. It's my field of work. I have no complaint about that. I enjoy building and fixing stuff, especially stuff that I build from scratch.

On day 3, I wrote a post about how I felt working there for 3 days. Now let's compare that with my feelings on day 307.

On day 3, I wrote:

I love this company already.

On day 307, I feel: - I like this company. From love to like. Kinda like this digital duplicator line in this graph:

I enjoy the everyday lunch part. We go out to get food everyday. With this payment, my lunch costs less than half an hour working... and maybe it will cost less soon :)

- Poor little "past" me, I didn't know that the verbal "promise" of being given a raise after probation was only a promise. I should've considered other offers at the time. That's why I stopped going out for lunch everyday and bringing my own. I am thankful though for I have a job that pays for my family's rent, bills and gives my working experience which money can't buy.

Y is an very interesting person

- She still is.

A is sooo funny. He keeps me laughing all the time.

- From being "funny", became an ass after a while. Always wants to be some body's boss. A graphic designer who wants to be not only the software developers' boss but also the product managers and PRs... I've been having a hard time with him but I know the rest of the company is with me so I'm not scared but in fact, playing some little mind games with him. It's fun actually.

K is a cool boss I've ever had

- It turned out he's not even my boss. He just came to America to help out GUS to hire people and do some other important work. However, he's still one of the cool co-workers I've had. He went back to Japan.

Kvin has a Vietnamese wife

- He left 2 weeks after I got in. Didn't have much chance talking to him besides that time on the first day I worked there.

R is shy but caring

- R has been working from home for almost a year now. I heard she's coming back to the office on the 7th next month.

J is quiet and just like me, she talks slow haha

- J is a very cool person. I met her at the AX last Sunday. She also complains about A

Jr looks so young but he's 34 and married.

- Jr is in the cool list.

Tm is a awesome guy who doesn't speak much even in his own language

- He can speak a lot of English now and making great sentences. I'm very glad for him. He's also in the cool list.

 S 

- S got a car accident right before I got hired. He got better and came back to the office in September last year. He's a kind soul. Always gentle and smile. You could feel love from and around him all the time. Of course this human being has his bad days and all but compared to others, I say he's the kindest co-worker I've ever had.

About the work:
Mostly ASP.NET in C# and SQL Server now. I love it. It is very addictive. I should give myself more breaks though. I feel bad to do so on these first days. Hey, I'm the only programmer in this branch right now. I'll take K advice and be the future IT colonel. ganbaru

- I still do the same job. I like the job. It's not too challenging but it keeps me awake the whole time. I always find some different advanced ways to improve my programs and I like that part.

Here is my rating: x/5

• Working environment: 4/5 (-1 for everyone can see my monitors)
• The Work itself: 5/5
• Salary & benefit: 2/5 (-4 for not keep the "promise", +1 for full benefits)
• Co-workers: 4/5 (-1 for A, +4 for cool and supportive other folks)

Would I recommend this position to a CS friend? maybe if he/she really needs a CS job with full benefits to earn experience and look for a next one. Yes. Other than that. No.

"Don't mistake coincidences for fates" - Eko

I got this when I was driving home on Wednesday night from work.

What if every event in the universe is acting like a loop. Each loop has a circle, or a period. Yes, remember in Physics, a wave has a period T or wavelength lambda which measures the time from one point on the x or y axis to the moment the wave comes back to that same point on the same axis ("the distance over which the wave's shape repeats").

What I want to get to is: an event always repeats itself at some point. For some events we could live long enough to see how it repeats itself, but for some events we don't. And even when we see that happens, we take it for "coincidence".

Let's put it this way. How many events are there in the universe, well let's have it smaller, in this world, on this earth? Small events like you start you car in the morning going to work, you do your laundry, you stroke on the "u" key on your keyboard, you hug goodbye this friend after one party, you drop your phone,.... bigger events like you start a new job, you transfer to another school, you move to another area, you emigrate to another country... bigger events can be anything like an earthquake, war, disaster, ...

Some loops are predictable. Some are obviously not. The diagram above is the sine wave - a very simple wave we all learned in school. But how about more complex waves where the wavelength is much more complicated to be measured or predicted?

The answer to that is: All waves have a wavelength. All waves have a frequency. If we could "zoom out" the graph far enough until we could see the repetition pattern. If events are like waves then all events must have a time span until it repeats again - in a different form. (in a different form because "you can't be in two places at the same time in a river"). 

That also means there is no coincidence. And there is coincidence at the same time. For example, if you meet a new co-worker today and start to work with him/her for a few years. That's no coincidence. But it also is! Why you? why him/her? why this company? why this period of a few years? why this project? Our human minds could only accept logics, but is that real logic? Or a tiny part of a bigger logic that we can not understand, well, not yet.

Another example, how did you meet your spouse / boy friend / girl friend / fiance? What were you guys to each other before that point? Friends perhaps? Before that? Friends of a mutual friend maybe? before that? Strangers. But all the events, small and big, happen to you two in your whole lives, just calculate themselves so accurately and efficiently that you will meet each other at some point where the the final loops intersect. But do all those calculations result in when, where and how you guys will meet? I believe that will depends on how you exercise your free-will in creating events in your lives before the the last two events intersect. If only we could have the ability 'zoom-out' the loops far enough, we could see where they meet. That's when some people have a glimpse of the future, I guess? Nostradamus? Baba Vanga in Bulgaria?  

Fate v.s. Freewill

So is there freewill? Is there fate? Or are there both? It is for you to decide. Until one day science will come to prove this. Science said the earth was flat. It also said time was constant everywhere...

Thank you