From: Jonathan Greenwood II (gwood83@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 30 2009 - 13:18:40 ARST
Congratulations Pavel, I was wondering when that # was going to come
around. You are one sharp CCIE!!!!
R/
Jonathan
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Pavel Bykov <slidersv@gmail.com> wrote:
> The short story is 23372
>
> The longer story is that my time has come as well.
> I can't say it was easy, since open endedness of the questions was
> excruciating, but apparently it was doable non the less.
> After leaving Brussels lab, I felt bad and very uncertain. There were just
> so many possibilities of interpretation of the questions.
> I had to get back home from the lab right away, because I had to babysit my
> 6 month old son, since my wife was going to an all night party.
> Plane was leaving really soon, forcing me to rush to the airport, which
> helped to get my mind off the lab. On the plane, every 5 minutes my mood
> changed from hopeful to devastated, but luckily contingency plan that I had
> prepared eased the pain, and was very important in retrospect, because if I
> wouldn't get my number, I would have an already prepared plan that I could
> follow in the fight for the number.
> At home baby tried to get my mind off the lab by crying his lungs off, not
> wanting to go to sleep. But 6 months of previous similar acoustic
> experiences made my hearing resilient to those tones, and so I was
> continuously thinking about the lab. About all the things that I could have
> done wrong, and about the things I could have done right. Most of all, i
> regretted spending over two hours and completely changing my topology
> because of measly three points. The semi depressed state persisted, and It
> felt like it is going to be an eternity before any results will be in. But
> then, at 23:30, when all seemed lost for the night, an email appeared in
> the
> inbox. "Please do not reply" it said... uh oh, I thought, ... that can't be
> good. They probably don't want me to reply because they don't want to
> receive an expression of my anger... My heart started pounding like it was
> trying to fill three gorges dam with blood, and the page that followed
> after
> the link made it pound even more. PASSED it said and nothing more. That was
> really all I needed. So I shut monitor off and got back to getting baby to
> sleep. He finally closed his eyes at 2:30 am, and so did I.
>
> Thanks GS, my primary study resource. A special thanks to Oleg Konovalov,
> Radioactive Frog, Darby and Anthony Sequeira for the words of confidence at
> last second.
>
>
>
> --
> Pavel Bykov
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