• 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

• Most interesting/inspiring people I met this year:
  • Sergey Balbeko - IT infrastructure developer, hipster. He shows me how strong you need to crave for new knowledge. That it’s very important to constantly develope yourself.
  • Anzhela Piage - Entrepreneur, psychologist. She shows me how important to think about win-win strategy not only with people, but with all the world around us.
  • Evgeniy Kuzmenko - Businessman. Man that shows me how important to be optimistic and persistent.
  • Tanya Shorokhova - Art director. She inspires me to see owls around us.
  • Oscar - millionaire from the sratch. Man that prove the idea that win-win strategy better than win-lose one. Also confirm the point that to be rich you need to work a lot and be very persistent.
• people that change my way to thinking this year:
  • Sergey Balbeko - He inspires me to be more open-minded about IT world and I learnt that social interaction is important (more important that I thought before).
• Two new hobbies this year:
  • Learning programming on codecademy
  • Learning Thai language
• Two might-have-been dream in this year:
  • Buy an apartment
  • Trip to Europe
  • Travel to South-America

What did not go well

I:

• still have not much money so a lot of plans still postponed
• often find hard to concentrate on work
• still not very good in choosing priorities
• spend a lot of time on garabage things, like reading blogs, news and so on useless stuff
• don’t pay enough attention to sport activity

What went well

I:

• learnt how to drive a car, I drove sedan, crossover, pick-up. In city, town, rural roads, highways.
• traveled a lot, it was life changing experience! I traveled more than last year, because I can drive a car now. I was in several national parks in Krabi province and traveled by car to Penang island in Malaysia.
• was programming more, My developer skills became better, I learnt basics of Python, Javascript and my Ruby is almost fluent already.
• I learnt basics of CSS and HTML.
• finished Introduction to Finance course on Coursera and got that to learn good - you need to enjoy it, learning mood is important.
• Enhance my opscode chef cooking skills even more.
• learnt how to read ไทย, and now I know about 600 Thai words. Though I understand now that it’s not a sprint - it’s a marathon.