Bitter Sweet lemon

Dear Fellows, it has been a while since I last penned my thoughts and memoirs on this lovely page. This has been partly because at my new place of work (Celtel) we have a serious web marshal running called “Web sense” that denies access to this lovely “Social Networking” site, am actually penning this from IFES Kenya-I drop by them once in a while. Anyway am doing well my new place of work is in a way a bitter –sweet lemon , bitter cause I am to do very little programming and the projects are far spaced. It has been a strange 2 weeks where I have engaged in serious Oracle Financial training; boy don’t Java Products look funny all that look and feel nonsense makes Microsoft and Macs look like Gurus. But all in all it is a through system built on solid principles and deadly requirements. The sweet part is that I have more time to sit back and relax, doing coding is engaging stuff and takes a lot from you, so give the option of supporting “strange” looking Java-based products is welcome anytime. I of course have enough time to surf the net and learn new things like how to write a CLR based stored procedure or a CLR Function in SQL server 2005 (boy am I late) but its been a strange 3 week.

The End Of An Age And The Beginning Of Another.

Well, my last day at Ascribe Nairobi is here (...tick..tock) the clock is ticking; this day dawned with mixed feelings of both Nostalgia and the thrill of Adventure. Ascribe has been my home for nearly two years now, and consequently I have made fairly strong ties and relations here. So the thought of rebuilding my life somewhere else is to say the least depressing but must be done. The thrill of adventure is as a result of my undying desire to grow in computing and Celtel provides an environment that suits my yearning and my craving. There are many quotes that seem 'deep' quips of wisdom on change.

"Everything Changes, nothing remains without change." - Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha.

"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable."- Benjamin Disraeli

"Everything that has a beginning must come to an end; This is the one thing that makes me happy when am sad and sad when am happy" -Charles Abere Simba

But all of them can’t fully describe what I feel right now.

On another cheerful not my CISA exams are out and I passed, am hoping to wield it on my next performance review to see if I can earn a few more coins. Of course this marks an end to the “Drought” of certification that plagued me…Oracle, Microsoft and ISACA here I come.