Great Year! Thanks God for everything that happened on 2009

Like my friend from survivor always says: First things first, so let’s start with work.

I worked a lot this past year, and really could achieve some great rewards, hard work usually pays off:-). I’m an IT manager of Nastek Tecnologia, and we won the first place on the CNI – 2009 on Brazil, this reward is like the oscar in Brazil for companies, so we’re really glad, we took the first place on Technologic Inovation, we have been work so hard for 3 years now, and is so great to earn something that really remembers how hard you gave yourself and how hard you worked. I’m excited, and honored to be able to work with so talented people, and we together builded a great software/hardware. Our software/hardware is spreading on over the Brazil’s map, and we’re really thank GOD for everything that ‘s happening.

I’m a regular IBM employee too, and I earned on this pas year a good recognition of my hard work, on IDEAS program, I developed a software that integrates with service desk, and dispatch the tickets automatically, the oncall usually spends 2 hours of his day dispatching tickets, now this is over, my software is been running for a some time now, so long that people already forgot how hard was before my software, but IBM honored me with a Outstanding Achievement reward, so it’s great, I still working 15 to 16 hours a day, but it’s cool.

In the other hand on JustWorks perspective, I didn’t release Beta version of SimpleMoney yet, pretty bad, but I’ve been so busy. But this is a new year, and with GOD help and really hard work, I think I’ll be able to finish this project, it’s so cool because it’s mine. It’s something that I always wanted to do, but never have the time, I still don’t have time, but I’ll get it there anyway.

This past year I started to loose weight and rediscover a great sport that I’m really loving it, yes I’m riding a bike everyday to my work, it’s like 7km away from my house, so I ride at least 14 km everyday, sometimes 28 . This has been great for my healthy, there’s no better feeling of endorphin running in your system, you feeling you are getting tired, you are sweating it’s really the I’m alive feeling, feeling the sun, it’s awesome, for me that I’m a geek, it’s a pretty good feeling. I bought a bike last year(specialized) really awesome bike, and it’s my new toy, I got in the stage that I’m starting to training now, it’s not just ride anymore, I’m thinking in some races, and that stuff.

To finish, I had a awesome vacation, that I didn’t have one of this for years. Me and my family went to USA in December/2009, we went to miami, rented a car then travelled to Orlando, washington, Philadelphia, New York and Atlantic City. It was so amazing, so the eyes of my son on Disney, to travelled all the east coast, my wife an I discovered wonderful lakes, some places that is really difficult to see even on movies, I passed the Christmas in NY with my cousin, and New Year’s eve in Atlantic City, I gambled a bit, and won $1000 in Texas Holden, so it was everything great, really great.

The only thing that I can say now is Thank you God, for my health, my work, and my family, friends, and everything that happened to me in this past year. The really great thing is that we’re starting all over again, NFL is on Playoffs, NBA is getting HOT, American Idol just started this week, and the last year of Lost starts next month. So many great things, the only downside to me is that Giants, is not on Playoff this year, but we can’t win at all. Life is made of some victories and some defeats, the important thing is to learn from your defeats, and enjoy your victories always being humble.

To finish this post, I’ll write the best phrase of 2009, and it was said by SLY(Silverste Stallone) on his last rocky movie, this is really amazing guys….

..The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place… and I don´t care how tough you are… it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it. You, me or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life. But ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit… and keep moving forward… how much you can take, and keep moving forward. THAT´S HOW WINNING IS DONE!…”(Rocky)