From: Pavel Bykov (slidersv@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Sep 28 2008 - 19:02:04 ART
Congrats :)
Nicotine tips for nicotine people:
1. Nicorette nicotine gum, 2mg or 4mg, no flavor
2. Nicorette nicotine gum, 2mg or 4mg, mentol flavour
3. Nicorette nicotine gum, 2mg or 4mg, fruit flavor
4. Niquitine 2mg nicotine tabs
5. Nicorette 15mg nicotine patch
6. Niquitine 21mg nicotine patch
7. Nicotine blow sticks
Chewing tobaco is a no go. For those who are not familiar - you have to spit
every 15 seconds or so, so you'd have to have a 1-litre bottle with you to
spit into. Plus you can overdose easily if you're not used to it.
P.S.: don't forget coffee to accelerate rate of metabolizing each other by
your body. You can have these in tabs as well:
1. Caffit
2. Liquid Guarana
3. Energy UP
4. Speed 8
5. Guarana tabs.
etc. etc.. Sorry for OT. but just for the reference. Your local farmacy will
be more than happy to help.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:25 PM, CCIE3000 <ccie3000@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Well I've been dreaming of writing this email for quite a while and now I
> can.
>
> I started going for the written in August 2006. Passed that okay and
> thought
> that I'd move on to what I thought would be the easy part as I'm a hands on
> kind of guy.....hhhmmmm, started okay but there were a few bumps on the
> way.
>
> I used the IE labs and thought okay, great I'm ready. Went for my first
> attempt on September 2007. The exam had a kind of IE feel to it and I did
> pretty well, although no cigar. I wasn't quick enough and I didn't get
> enough sleep the night before so my concentration suffered.
>
> Thought okay, good first attempt, get back in there quick. Oh boy what a
> shock, very different exam and at the time I thought mind blowing. I took a
> big kick in the balls on that one and it took me a good two months before I
> could pick up the books.
>
> Although the IE stuff was good, I realised that it wasn't the oracle and
> bought Narbiks work books, lots of stuff I'd covered but also lots of new
> things too. At the end of the day you need all the ammo you can get and I
> picked up some new info.
>
> Went in the 3rd time, well prepared, learnt loads extra, got my speed up
> even more but on the day had real butter fingers. Got stuck on a real silly
> multicast problem right at the beginning of the section which I wasted too
> much time on. My brain started to suffer and I made some silly mistakes,
> plus at the time I was smoking which meant the my concentration was
> suffering through lack of nicotine.
> Score report compared to my mental calculations of the day meant that I was
> about 6-8 points short
> ...damn......damn......damn......damn......damn......damn......damn...
>
> Okay, I'm gonna nail this thing if it's the last thing I do. I must admit I
> only found group study just before my second attempt. I read the stuff but
> never really went majorly deep into all the posts as I was too busy trying
> to learn stuff from my labs. For the forth attempt I read everything and
> labbed everything I thought was of interest. I got my speed up and went
> with
> using alias exec commands. Guys, I can't stress enough how much time you
> can
> save using alias', plus you don't make silly typos like cofn t instead of
> conf t etc...
> Just remember to remove them at the end of the day.
>
> Quit smoking, you just can't smoke like I used to and sit in a room all
> day,
> I had to get the nicotine out of my system.
>
> Had a good exam, not easy by any stretch but yet perversely
> enjoyable...come
> on you dogs..do your worst...I eat these kinds of labs for breakfast. Some
> tricky questions, but yet I kept a cool head and made sure I confirmed and
> checked stuff. That's where I realised my previous mistakes. I'd entered
> commands thought they were good and moved on. Only when I'd got my speed up
> did I have time to check and realise I'd made a couple of really dumb ass
> mistakes which would have cost me the lab.
> Got back home, didn't sleep much, kept checking every hour, at 06:50 I woke
> up my wife and the whole apartment block with my cries of joy.
>
> Since quitting being an Electrician many years ago, I starting off in IT
> operations doing back ups and batch runs, learning how to use things like
> email (hey, trust me, when you are used to working on cold building sites,
> with drills and god knows what whilst trying not to electrocute yourself
> email is a pretty cool thing to suddenly discover :) )
> Anyways, I worked nights, weekends for a few years learning about the IT
> industry and a couple of very cool guys in Networks let me sit with them on
> my days off and I started to learn networks. After a while although
> everyone
> thought I worked in the networks team I spent so much time there I got a
> job
> in the networks department.
>
> Studied for CCNA then CCNP and with experience thought of myself as a
> pretty
> okay engineer. But I always looked at CCIE's and thought, those guys are
> the
> daddies. Although I always fancied going for CCIE I'm more of a learn by
> experience kind of guy and not much of a reader. Anyways, a few years went
> by and I moved to a new county with my wife. I was enjoying myself but I
> was
> up against testking CCNP's and these guys would work for silly crap money.
> I
> came from working for an investment bank earning good money and then
> loosing
> out on jobs in my adopted country because the unemployment is high and
> wages
> were low....this is no good thinks I, I need to earn some proper money. A
> company contacted me, asked me to join them and offered me the chance to go
> for CCIE, I warned the wife and jumped at the chance. Finally, to get to
> the
> top of my industry and move to the bracket were only the worthy get the
> title. This is no digs at CCNP's ( I was one long enough) , just a dig at
> the cheating ones.
>
> Since starting to study, I've got married to a truly amazing woman who I
> couldn't have done it without, bought an apartment and had to say good bye
> to my Dad who passed away after a long illness last August.
>
> The poor old Fella never knew I'd started out on the CCIE path but I hope
> that he would have been proud of my achievement and I dedicate it all to my
> Dad and Wife.
>
> Tips for you guys.
> Don't rely on one work book, get as many views as you can.
> Play with things, make things up, break things and fix them using all the
> non obvious methods. You may be a good engineer but CCIE lab will have
> questions to get you to do things and not allow you to use obvious methods.
> Mock labs, IE are very good although sometimes you wish there was a proctor
> to clarify things, but you then realise how the real lab could be marked.
> Also net master class mock labs, real toughees, but you pick up some good
> things too.
> If you are doing your lab in Brussels, stay at the holiday inn. More
> expensive than the NH, but they have a pool, sauna, steam room etc.....best
> way to de-stress the night before your exam. Man, a Sauna and then a plop
> in
> the freezing cold plunge pool was bliss.
> Plus you can blag it if you say you have business with Cisco, I got a
> preferential rate.
> At the end of the day, it's a long, hard, tough road but the goal makes it
> all worth while. You just have to role with the punches and tame the beast
> and you will get your number.
>
> For my next project I'm now gonna carry on working on my Dad's old motor
> boat and get her ready for some fishing next year after a 16 year rest out
> of the water, she's getting on for 40 years old but she's a tough old girl
> and holds some very fond memories of when my Dad and I used to head out for
> some fishing. I shall be drinking a beer in his honour when I get her back
> to her former glory and back on the water.
>
> Sorry for the long mail but after two years of study you need to get a lot
> of stuff off your chest :)
>
> Good luck to the guys starting out, I shall stick around for a bit longer
> and help out where I can.
>
> Si
> CCIE 22023
>
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