From: Mohammed Naviwala (monavy@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2008 - 17:34:11 ART
very well written....Indeed motivating......
specially 'no excuse is acceptable'
On 10/7/08, Long Nguyen <longoc@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Amazing man, hopefully I will join the ranks myself one day. Its so far
> away
> it seems.
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> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Fernando Carvalho <
> fernando.cagica@t-online.de> wrote:
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> > Congratulations, you deserve your number.
> >
> > Fernando
> >
> > Leo Leung schrieb:
> >
> > Dear GS members,
> >>
> >> I passed the lab last Wed. on Oct.1, 2008.
> >>
> >> Before I first sat R&S lab in 2005, I had 10 years voice experience
> >> and got my CCNA/CCNP. I was surprised with the report shown "0%" in
> >> many sections. I asked myself did I forget to save config? Yes, I
> >> did save; but no, I totally underestimated the lab as I studied only
> >> from Cisco websites without taking any vendors workbooks. Then I
> >> realized I need to change my way of thinking to look for help; you see
> >> CCIE journey began transforming me. I got IPexpert and ccbootcamp
> >> workbooks and found myself pretty much relied on solution guide,
> >> meaning I was unable to perform a lab section myself and the speed was
> >> horrible. After a long while I decided to go to bootcamp at
> >> netmasterclass.com in early 2007 and it proved me that I was the worst
> >> one in the class. What happened? I exhausted all my savings, when I
> >> discussed it with my wife that only solution was to take credit card
> >> debt that she went for a minimum wage job to pay the interest. It was
> >> sad soon she got serious sick and went through 2 major surgeries in
> >> 2006 and followed by endless medical bills. My 7-year old son asked me
> >> when his dream to Disneyland will become true, boy, I never have time
> >> to bring him to local cinema even once. My heart broke as I saw his
> >> tear in his eyes. At that particular moment an event occurred in my
> >> journey. after a mock lab I happened to speak with Narbik over the
> >> phone about my journey status. Immediately he sent me the whole OSPF
> >> section material for free, offered his phone number for any questions,
> >> but most importantly he told me that he believed my determination and
> >> ability to accomplish this journey. I found as if he looked into my
> >> eyes with the word of "you can do it". Since then I kept telling
> >> myself nothing can stop me from moving forward. Then, I was quite
> >> comfortable with his approach to complete each technology section in
> >> its own scope before ever touching a full lab. He asked me to do
> >> every section 4 times and make sure no question you are not aware of.
> >> Man, I doubled that; I valued his books more than gold, no kidding.
> >> Please, please I do not mean to devaluate any other vendor's
> >> workbooks. It was my understanding level at early stage of the
> >> journey did not come up to that height and different people have
> >> different ways of learning that may be closer to one another kind of
> >> workbook design. Another critical moment in my journey was in second
> >> half of 2007 I found 2 study partners in the bay area, Jean-Marc
> >> Mazzoni and Jay Jwalanaiah. We got together from netmeeting every
> >> week to work primarily on InternetworkExpert labs and go over Jean's
> >> very detailed notes that he worked so hard and shared with us so
> >> selfishlessly. They sincerely pointed out that I have English
> >> proficiency issue that needed to overcome and they made a lot of jokes
> >> out of it, well that's one of many reasons I love CCIE program that
> >> allows me to meet such great men that I otherwise no way to know, not
> >> only that after they both passed the exam, they gave me their routers
> >> and switches for free so that I was able to build a fully scaled lab
> >> without compromise. You all know what value of such an available lab
> >> for a candidate is.
> >>
> >> What I am tying to say is this,if you have guts to pursue this
> >> journey, do not drop it! for it defeats your own purpose, even if you
> >> do, you may eventually come back, because we are engineers by nature
> >> and we like to complete things from A to Z, why wasting time? and
> >> Cisco is also interested in seeing how you deal with failure (no
> >> offend to 1st time pass). I have learned to convert complaint for
> >> compliment, appreciated failure as identification of weak areas, and
> >> taken pain on the journey as necessary cost to pass. As world needs
> >> CCIEs and equivalents to keep its networks up, no excuse is
> >> acceptable. I am now glad that we took that credit card debt, because
> >> all the skillset learned along the journey, the creditability
> >> established in work place, the confidentiality in oneself facing
> >> assigned projects, and the opportunity upcoming to one's reach are
> >> much, much more weighted than this debt, that too, would be soon
> >> disappeared as well. On the other hand you can say me primitive, but
> >> nothing makes me more happier than being able to support my family,
> >> especially in economic downturn.
> >>
> >> For everyone on board, I say thank you mate. Hanging there, you'll be
> >> CCIE one day; For all instructors including list owner I have deepest
> >> respect for your dedication, willingness, patience and all that will
> >> be forever our integrate part of the journey.
> >>
> >> Leo
> >> 22227 (R&S)
> >>
> >> P.S
> >> Input to improve my English proficiency is greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >>
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