After a 6-month absence from the blogosphere, I decided to return to blogging once more. I recently have a hankering to express myself once more on the blogosphere, especially with all that free time that I now have after my graduation. More importantly, I no longer feel hindered by the fear of having a prospective employers reading my blog. When I was job searching in the beginning of this year, I was a little concerned about prospective employers discovering and reading about this blog. I thought the less they know about me, the better position I would be in getting the job - information asymmetry and all that. I recently changed my mind about keeping a low profile on the web. I am a good nature person and everything that I had written were generally non-controversial. Even if the content is controversial, it is usually framed in a constructive manner. In fact, I think blogging takes initiative, creativity, and discipline. And aren't these qualities that all employers are looking for in the first place?

So what happened in my life the past 6 months? In chronological order: I played a lot of War of Warcraft, sold my apartment in Cambridge, completed my thesis, quit my part-time job at Analog Devices, and graduated from MIT (just last week). I have lived in Boston for more than 10 years and had expressed desire to move out of the area about 4 years ago. Finally, with the sale of the property and graduation, I am finally free to pursue my life elsewhere. While many of my classmates have already received high-paying jobs (some even started working), I will be taking a post-graduation path that is less traveled. I have no desire to return to the industry anytime soon and not worry about finding the job that I want. I have good qualities and qualifications, as demonstrated in school and the industry. Nonetheless, I still feel I have room for growth. I am thinking big and outside the box. For once, I want to take some time to do some thinking and look for the ideal career and life. So for the next 3 months, I will be taking a hiatus in Asia traveling for at least 3 months. A rough itinerary of my travels look like this: S. Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Nepal, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, and possibly Cambodia and India. Who knows, maybe something great will happen. After my travels, I plan on settling down in the San Francisco/Bay Area upon returning to the U.S after my travels. After all, I am still a geek who seeks for a career in the high-technology industry.

6/16/2007 1:56:25 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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