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Commencing Myself As Architect

William Chang — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:41:28 +0000

I’m happy I made the right choice as an application developer. The years of curiosity, creativity, and practice in my profession finally caught up to my expectations. And, I finally see myself as an architect, the creator or inventor, of applications.

The tools to produce and company start-up costs are inexpensive nowadays thanks to open source technologies and the Internet, you can cut out the middleman for product and service distribution. When developing applications for the Internet, personal computers, and smartphones you will find endless opportunities if you just open your eyes to creativity. There is nothing stopping from producing something from an idea to a product or service, but keeping yourself consistent with perseverance.

I find that a lot of people around me don’t see what I see, there are a lot of opportunities being an application developer. They seem to be all caught up with social activities and stopped innovating themselves to be lazy and too comfortable with their repetitive routines.

Ultimately, my number one passion is not about getting rich, but to see my ideas help make people’s lives better. That is my secret that drive me forward and I feel it is a key of success and getting rich is just an undisclosed perk that comes with the package.

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My Journal from January 2007 to April 2007

William Chang — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:14:40 +0000

I thought I can stop being social and concentrate on finishing college, accelerate my job as a application developer, and work on my hobbies. But, mysteriously every time I want to put myself on a lock-down, even for a day, I get people (aka friends) inviting themselves to meet me. Oh, it’s not just one or two of the same friends, it’s more than a handful of different friends that surprise me. But, I don’t mind at all and I always look at it as a positive perspective. Deep inside I know some of these people will never get off my tail and to be with me from childhood (since elementary school) and well into the future.

I sometimes put people first before my own priorities, sacrificing my assets (e.g. car) and my quality time. Thus, when I got a call from MaryAnn Yanez wanting an escort to pick up the Miniature Pinscher puppy, which she adore after days of searching for the right chance. So, I said yes to drive for many hours and for the reasons simply the interest in dogs and that she is the only girl that “makes an effort” to talk to me many times.

I’m always receiving money offers from friends for my personal services even though money is not my priority. For MaryAnn Yanez wanting to pay me is not what I want, but for her to be happy, relieved, and comfortable first. What she didn’t know is what I got in return indirectly, she rekindle my love for pets and allow me to discover a new hobby as a basic dog trainer.

When I was pet-sitting a Miniature Pinscher puppy, named Rocky, soon another puppy, named Romeo, to take care from Stephano Joseph. Thus, my plans for this semester to be on a lock-down went out the window. Wow, looking at both puppies are such beautiful animals and full of new life. I spent my whole Spring Break taking care of them and to help Stephano Joseph while he mourn for his younger brother, Ricky, that passed away recently.

My long-time friends came up to Orlando from all the way from Miami to meet-up. All of them, but some are not friends with each other, clashed into one single weekend: Anthony Bitume, Alex Molina, Adrian Molina, Hugo Andre Ortiz, Stephano Joseph, and Timothy Chin. It was unexpected to see all of them at once and putting me at a uncomfortable position to keep them entertained. Thus, I setup a barbeque party at my house for Saturday afternoon and at night we all went to the bar to play Texas hold’em poker tournaments.

I’m glad everybody had a good time, made memories, and for me was a lot of spontaneous tasks to keep my guests entertained. Even though my grades and job suffered a little and my hobbies was missed, thus to be social was unavoidable.

I added a new page called “Comedy” in the main menu, top right corner, of my website. I really love stand-up comedy and I want to shared it to the world. Enjoy! DieHard signing out!

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Controlling Time

William Chang — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:08:28 +0000

There are so many things to do, but so little time. And when you have something to due, you don’t have enough time to finish it. Then, you have to manage priorities, sacrificing time for others, so now the other things fall behind. You have to include sleep and eating as well, they have priorities and consume time. The biggest factor of all is drowsiness, personally, it effects my performance and my emotions. What hurts the most is school, so many (most) unpractical courses does not excite my interest to pursue. I’m left to forcing myself to learn and deal with it, but this is when drowsiness comes into play. It’s been a life-long battle so far and there is nothing unsettling about school, always on your toes.

I spent time doing overdue “personal” projects that should’ve been done long time ago. I’m glad I finally made progress. I did a lot of C++ programming to develop a fundamental game engine for Developers Club – Project 1. The Insurance Advisors of Florida website is reaching to completion soon.

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Sleepless Nights

William Chang — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:30:04 +0000

I get one of those random days that I just can’t sleep. Spontaneous visions of many things, it felt I was going through each channel of me on TV. I think about ideas and plans of my career, helping the unfortunates, technology, investments, entrepreneurship, and companionship. Going through many scenarios finding the best probability of easy execution of these ideas and plans. I get flashbacks of events I should’ve done better or regret making that initiative. I have no idea how I get into these visions. I tried to think about nothing, blanking out my mind in blackness.

I find that watching TV or reading a book helps sometimes, but occasionally I just stay awake doing whatever until the sun touches the horizon. Then I finally get some sleep for a few hours before I wake up to the repetitive cycle of each day.

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