Review of 2008

Let me review the year of 2008 and plan my 2009.

Things I did in 2008.

* Parent visit us for half year. Spend half year with my parents in 15 years since I left Chongqing in 2003. Parent are old apparently. I am still a child in front of them, but I feel that I am now the leading role in the family and be responsible for the family. I have to take care of them when they are here with us.

* Family issue. A lot of conflict and struggle. It is the seven year itch for sure. Both of us should be more careful with the relationship. Relationship needs more care and love.

* Work. Get more experience with Linux. But spend a lot of time working on WR toolchain. I am now the linux BSP support team. The position is not the core position but it is unique for now. I gain some more experience with kernel upgrade and use git to manage the kernel. Gain more experience with linker, makefile, bash programming.

* My spare time. I spend a lot of time in the first half year to work on the star5.ca website. However, it turns out that to maintain the content may consume so much time. I'd better work on some project to generate content automatically.

* Stock trading. I did not bad compared to the market and I had even some profit so far. I had some good time in Aug and Sep when I was bearish of the market. However, I lost most of the profit in Oct when I was a bit bullish and market fluctuate too much. Fortunately, my portfolio is still green when I bought low in Nov and Dec. My gold and silver investment turns out much better than others. I am also looking into the high dividend stock.

* Sports. I am now a serious runner now. After I finished my second sunrun this year, I decide to do a half-marathon. With not so constant training, I did not bad in myt first HM (1:57). So, I decide to go for a full marathon next year in Vancouver. I finally found a hobby in sports. That's running. I enjoy running outside, with your own pace and pants. To run in a trail, like in Burnaby mountain, is even enjoyable than running on the road.

2009. Better to set some goals.

* Improve family relationship. To prepare the immigration for my parents and in-laws.

* Seek promotion in work and more responsibilities. Overhaul of the build system, nightly build, regression test, kernel benchmarking, open source package validation. Better to keep one co-op in our team for supporting. Setup git repository for kernel development. Submit Broadcom patches to kernel.org.

* Train and run my first full marathon. Prepare for another one in Autumn if the first one is finished well.

* Read the Sci-Fi books I bought. Photography. Video.

* My website or application development.
* search engine of classified.
* restaurant review
* use my server for alrishasoft, haochen, leochen, zjuaavan,
* register domain for friends, other small business, setup website templates