Kurniady’s Blog

So the last post was about relocation (stopped at D-5). Turned out that at that time, I was to busy to write about my last days before relocation. Anyway, here are the updates.

I am now in Sydney, working fulltime for one of the best employers in IT. Working in a team whos project is to revolutionize online communication. Can’t tell you much about it, as I don’t want to deal with what’s confidential and what’s not, and I figured out that it’ll be easier to keep this blog personal and not about work at all.

If you’ve read the previous posts, you’d probably know that I was at some point in doubt of the many choices that I had about my life after graduation. I did pick one, which I believed to be the best, even until now. Relocating to a new country, meeting new people, it’s a totally different lifestyle in Sydney. It took a few months but finally I’m feeling quite settled, at least for now.

Last May, I finally went to the United States, visiting the Silicon Valley. The place was so techy that it even has a Computer History Museum that exhibit any kind of computer you can imagine (and even more!). Visiting the museum gave me a better image about the history of computers, far better than the boring university textbooks. The Silicon Valley gave an entirely different feel about IT: home to big companies like Google, Apple, Yahoo!, and many more, as well as the famous Stanford University, it is the place where most major innovations in computing originates from. Everyone who do IT as a profession definitely should visit it at least once, I think.

Okay, so now I work in a foreign country, earning quite a satisfactory amount of money, living well, eating well, had fun. But, what’s next?

Currently my plan is to stay for at least a few years in the company (maybe more), finishing a master’s degree part-time as well, and then decide whether to stay longer or start some business of my own. In the meantime, I’d carefully invest what I own (needs to be very careful given the current economic uncertainty worldwide). Sometimes I’ll feel lonely, but I do believe that God is planning the best solution for that. Probably I’ll also travel a bit more, which is now economically possible for me.

The plan feels quite boring though, therefore I’d be happy if any of you reading this post can suggest something more exciting for me to do in the next few years. I simply can’t think of anything better… any ideas?

Thanks for reading, comments are always welcome

-Andrian Kurniady

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