From: Long Nguyen (longoc@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2008 - 15:45:58 ART
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.
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> Fernando
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> Leo Leung schrieb:
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> Dear GS members,
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>> I passed the lab last Wed. on Oct.1, 2008.
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>> 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.
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>> 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)
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>> P.S
>> Input to improve my English proficiency is greatly appreciated.
>>
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