Posts from — July 2003

I shot 93 today. It is my current personal best round of golf since I have been playing seriously for 8 months.
Even though, it is the lowest score I have ever had. I do not feel good at all.

My goal for today was 90. (I would allow myself to buy a new set if I reach 90.)

I remember when I first broke 100 (I got 97.) about three months ago, I was so happy I could not stop calling everybody I knew (who did not mind me talking golf.) and telling them about my little success. Come to think of it, 97 is actually a really bad score! (The pros shoot around 70s, give or take. My 97 to the pros is probably like some dumbass score.)

My goal that time was to break 100.

Success is a relative term, a direct relation to the goal at the moment.
The surpassed goal may look so easy and silly because you are already above that level.
Always set your goal higher and higher.

Weather is calm.
Wind’s blowing through my hair.
I hear it. I can smell it, but I can’t touch it.

I am calm.
Sun’s shining through the window.
The beautiful taste of earth moves me.

I saw the wind blowing.
Blow the time away from me.
I don’t give a damn.
I am free.

The pressure to be succeed can be oppressive.

The path is more important than the goal.

Whatever I have done is due to patient thought. –Sir I. Newton.

Patient is my strongest attribute I have. More than quite a few times, it helped me through tough situation. Patient and calmness make your brain works effectively and in its full potential.

I made a few mistake during 3 years of working as a computer technician. Mistakes that would have cost a lot of money and precious time.

My boss is a type of man who is easily agitated by every little thing no matter how small it is.
The very first time I made a mistake, I was almost drown because of my boss’ blood pressure.
I accepted my mistake and tried to stay calm… It helped. Everything turned out just fine.

We (I and my boss) learned something from that incident. He rarely ever raise his blood pressure against me again.

About a month ago, June 6th, was our 5th anniversary.

Amazing how time flies. Even more amazing is how we can stay true to each other all these years.

My wife colleague who (self pro)claim to be a pretty accurate palm reader looked at my wife’s palm and asked with a serious look in her eyes, “You do have some trouble in your marriage, do you?”

My wife laughed, “No, I don’t. And, we don’t.”

“No, really! (It’s alright. you can tell me.)”, her colleague wanted a real answer…

My wife told me the same night that if anybody could call our marriage “trouble”, any other marriage in this world should be called “disaster”.

Her words ensured me that our marriage has really passed year 5 and counting with a positively strong pulse…

My dad has been a 9 handicap golfer for as long as I could remember. He recently turned pro because of my brothers, and also because he had too much time in his hand after retirement.

I have been so stubborn by not getting into golf when I was back in Thailand with them. I missed a lot of things, good things about golf…

You hit a couple of good shots. You go on… You hit a few bad shots. You still have to go on. You cannot stop, and you do not want to stop. It is not going to be bad all the time. You play one shot at a time. Enjoy every single moment of golf until the end…

and go on with your life after the round.

One of my main role is a computer technician. Which is a boring job in some way and an interesting job in another way. I will just omit the boring part.

The interesting thing is the fact that no two computer are alike even though every component is the same.

Let me give you an example;

Most of the time my job is simply reformat and reinstall the computer. And usually before I reformat it, the customer will ask me to backup their important data first.

The “important” data in one’s sense might not be the same as the others’.

Once, a 12 year old boy let me backup, format and reinstall his machine as usual. As I went through his data needed to be backed up, I found some grown-up-you-know-what-I-mean kind of pictures and video clips. Well….I went on with my job.

The other time, a 50 something year old man asked me to do the same job. Interestingly this time, his important data are some pictures of girls porn!

Both times, I fought hard with myself if I should tell anybody. Should I tell the boy’s parents? Should I just call the police about the man’s illegal porn?

I did nothing…

I came to the conclusion that it was just the way of the world. Why don’t I just shut up and enjoy both porn!…

I am a husband, golfer, computer technician, website developer, drummer and a thinker. (Note: Not in order of priority. They change places quite often.)

This web journal idea has been introduced to me by a friend of mine who is having his own web journal, too.

I found it to be quite an interesting way of journal writing. The paper journal seems to be too “dry” comparing to this web journal which motivate me quite a lot because of a few reasons;

First, because of all those roles and walks of life I mentioned above, I would have loads of ideas and stories to tell.
Second, it is a good way to practice writing again. In English this time!

Read on…