From: Anthony Faria (tfaria72@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 30 2009 - 13:36:00 ARST
Great job Pavel!!
Tony
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Jonathan Greenwood II <gwood83@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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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