Summary of important things that I did in year 2019

Due to procrastination I delayed my sum-up for year 2019 till May 2020, but here I’m.

• One health issue solved.
• I started to do Yoga.
• I reduced my weight from ~105 kg to <= 95 kg.
• We travelled to the Khao Kho and Nam Nao in Thailand by car.
• We travelled to Japan and I drove a rental car in Japan :)
• I travelled to Vietnam so +2 new countries this year.
• I bought a bigger car for us to travel.
• and we travelled to Krabi on it.
• Our familty (will) have +1 baby in 2020 bringing babies amount up to 2 :)

Intro

I use some KDE applications on my Macbook Pro.
And some of them looks very bad with MacOS X dark mode.
So I would like to disable dark mode for those specific applications.

Intro

Sometimes you want an easy food to bring peace and comfort to you stomach.
Welcome, Generic Chicken Soup!

Good article about power of environment.
Example: want to lose wight? Buy smaller plates :)
Motivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More.

Due to laziness I delayed sum-up for 2018 year till the middle of 2019, but here I’m.

Overall in 2018 was a very relaxed year.

• important things that I did at 2018 years:
  • One more trip to Ukraine.
  • We travelled to the North Thailand on our car.

For some reason I skipped 2016 year’s sum-up, so I will write two years sum-up this year.

• 5 important things that I did at 2016/2017 years:
  • +1 in our familty, his name is Ilya.
  • In april 2016 I parted my ways with Binary.com and started to work with PropertyGuru Group in Bangkok, Thailand. Thank you for all the good time Binary.com! I learnt a lot during my work there.
  • I moved to DevOps Team Lead role.
  • Our family visited Ukraine, we weren’t there for about 3 years.
  • Sold a car in Malaysia and bought a new one in Thailand.

Happiness is controversial fellow.

I personally incline to opinion from this author/article: The 5 Daily Rituals That Will Make You Happy

• 5 important things that I did this year:
  • moved to Malaysia, Cyberjaya and lived there for a year.
  • bought a car and travel all around Kuala Lumpur (+- 300 km) on it.
  • found a better job, so I’m moving back to Thailand, Bangkok.
  • learnt more about chef&ruby and basics of LISP and golang.
  • started to read technical books again.

• 5 important things that I did this year:
  • Got Married.
  • Learnt how to drive a motorcycle. Bought my first motorcycle.
  • live whole year in Asia, in Thailand, Krabi and Malaysia, Cyberjaya during 2013/2014 year.
  • Finish 2 Coursera courses Web Application Architectures and A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior
  • I learnt TDD approach to writing code, and applied it in practice. It’s just awesome.

• 5 important things that I did this year:
  • Learn how to drive a car.
  • go to second big travel to Asia, living in Thailand, Krabi during 2013/2014 winter.
  • go for two short travels to Malaysia. By plane from Ko Samui to Kuala Lumpur, by car from Krabi to Penang island.
  • go for short travel to Germany.
  • Finish Introduction to Finance course on Coursera