From: Darby Weaver (ccie.weaver@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2008 - 19:03:11 ART
Congratulations!
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Steve Means <smeans@ccbootcamp.com> wrote:
> First of all, congrats on the pass, sounds like you deserve it.
>
> On the subject of improving your English, I have some input based on
> experience. My wife is Polish and had only been in the states a short time
> when we met. Her English has improved by leaps and bounds since then in the
> most simple way possible. We talk together. When she makes a grammatical
> mistake I correct her. Nicely of course. Does she still have an accent? Of
> course. But if you knew her when she came here vs. today you would be
> astonished.
>
> You might not have this luxury. But if you can, find a native speaker who
> can
> spend even a half an hour a day with you. Its important that they not be
> embarrassed about correcting you. Talk. You'll get better quick.
>
> Another tip from my own language learning. The pimsleur method materials
> are
> very good. They are really helping improve my Polish pronunciation and
> comprehension. They do have a series of English for XXX speakers which
> might
> help you out. Worth a look at least.
> Steve Means
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> From: nobody@groupstudy.com on behalf of Mohammed Naviwala
> Sent: Tue 10/7/2008 1:34 PM
> To: Long Nguyen
> Cc: Fernando Carvalho; Leo Leung; Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: CCIE journey raised me to become an accountable network
> engineer
> (CCIE# 22227)
>
>
>
> very well written....Indeed motivating......
>
> specially 'no excuse is acceptable'
>
> On 10/7/08, Long Nguyen <longoc@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Amazing man, hopefully I will join the ranks myself one day. Its so far
> > away
> > it seems.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Fernando Carvalho <
> > fernando.cagica@t-online.de> wrote:
> >
> > > 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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