Filipino DevOps Engineer – Portfolio Weblog

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Tag: Reflections

  • Peace my friends, I’ll need to take a hiatus (one span of rest & focus) – sorry. Thanks for being around with me, folks.

    My dear friends, how are you?

    Peace be with you, in the holy Name of Jesus, the Christ, our Lord. Our good Shepherd.

    Jesus our Lord, the Christ, Who is the true Light of our world.

    My brothers and sisters, first off – please allow me to tell you that I want to apologize – I’m sorry folks, I haven’t been able to post much on this space, concerning our learning journey.

    Earlier, we had some localized network troubles. Thankfully, it got resolved after a number of days. Kudos to our local team of telecom service line-men and women. Those who enable and maintain these sort of connectivity and services.

    We give them our thanks.

    For now, my dear brothers and sisters – I feel I need to take a break from this space. Okay folks?

    I’ll return after some more time.

    I need to focus on reading a book (or two), on needed course-work, and one of the things I want to share with you. Is that recently, I’m being considered, thankfully, for a university scholarship (At this time, I can’t afford to put myself to any college program, or whatnot, without one). This, to earn a college degree over some time.

    For me, it’s going to be slow.

    Sorry folks, I haven’t got any yet. It’s also my fault why I don’t have one. Maybe I learn slowly.

    Well, we have to keep trying. Yes?

    And we also need to keep praying. Fervent prayers, is key.

    Anyway, that’s it for now.

    You won’t be hearing from me at this space until I haven’t sorted out things I need to, first.

    We’re all doing our best in life. I believe. The way we know how. With what we still have, also.

    Keep yourselves well over where you’re at, my dear brothers and sisters.

    Thanks, and God bless you all.


  • Good news, folks! With our internet connectivity restored. We give our thanks.

    Hi-ya, folks!

    How are you all doing?

    Peace be with you. In the holy Name of Jesus, the Christ, our Lord.

    This weekend, family made more effort to reach out to a telecom services team. Folks, we all need our internet line working. They also have their own things to do. Not just myself, okay folks?

    It seems their efforts paved the way for a repair crew to work on our line that afternoon. And after that, with our internet connectivity fixed – we’re back online.

    Salamat po. Thanks!

    We give our thanks to the men and women who provide and enable these telecom services. Much like us, I think they too do this to help others, as well as for livelihood and to advance personal passion.

    We give them our salutations! Okay, folks?

    God bless them.

    My friends, I’m going to continue our lab exercises some time later. If not today, tomorrow early morning. Well, hopefully.

    For now, I believe I need to continue studying on something I also need to grow from.

    Thanks for being around, my brothers and sisters in Christ.

    God bless.


  • Folks, how are you? – Sorry, friends – Need to Restructure our Study plan and Cadence.

    Hi-ya, folks!

    Good morning!

    Several days ago, we were doing our 16th Day of 100 Days of DevOps. It was going well, until we had to check our work through Kode Kloud’s system.

    At that, we hit an error. Sorry folks, from time to time – we will inevitably make mistakes, and errors here and there.

    The good thing is that, we do learn a lot from our own mistakes. Yes, my brothers and sisters?

    Unfortunately, folks we failed to fully do the 16th Day task. It’s okay – we’ll have to try again. Hopefully, some time soon. If God is willing.

    My friends, I had been thinking about doing a restructuring of my own training and study plan.

    I’m sorry brother and sisters – I can’t properly do it without making an effort to balance what I still have in my waking hours.

    Apart from family, whom I’m not always able to attend to nowadays, sorry, while I have time in my hands due to unemployment – I’m what they call “doubling down” where I can with study.

    With a goal to find, and land a job for a well-meaning company of friends. Through, first becoming more equipped, and reaching nearer to readiness required. Okay, folks?

    Without studying – I don’t feel I could compete well enough. This is one more driver among other varied reasons. Why we need to keep learning.

    Alright, with these things said.

    Folks, I’m going to write and attempt doing Kode Kloud academy exercises – for around 3x times a week.

    The remaining 2 weekdays, I need to devote to training in a slightly different way.

    When weekends come – sorry, but I need to drop training mostly, and come to a rest.

    Folks, we all need rest. And time to ourselves, either in recreation or in reflection.

    I’ll start implementing this simple rule, I need to set simple rules for myself, otherwise, I can’t become or grow consistent enough. If the rules or guidelines I set for myself, are too complex.

    I need to simplify what I can simplify.

    Simple for me, means I have a chance of growing enough to become consistent at it, well, over the passage of time.

    These are also some of the things I learned from others. What I learn are all from other people. We’re nothing, without all our teachers, mentor(s), family, and coach(es).

    Yes, folks?

    I share that belief, that no single person – is a self-made person. We constantly need others’ help.

    More notably, from our holy Catholic priests, nuns, deacons, and our other brothers and sisters (more spiritually-mature than I will ever be) from the universal (meaning, Catholic) church of our Lord Jesus, the Christ.

    And also, from others in our secular world. I learn from books, podcasts, and other what-not. Such as a contemporary book about ancient stoic teachings – viewed in our modern world’s lens. And I have to say, that it’s quite helpful, folks. Insightful, and full of things we can apply in our own lives.

    But, be careful too, my friends, first, let us also let what we learn pass through the gates of our Christian faith. Particularly, our compass drawing from Christian Theological traditions, and also, from Holy Scripture.

    We need to ask the Holy Spirit of God, to be with us – to guide us, and our minds and hearts.

    Friends, we can do this (to ask for this grace from God) – through sincere, fervent, and regular prayers.

    Okay, that’s it for now, my dear friends in Christ.

    Thank you, and may God bless us all.


  • Folks, sorry, let’s reflect and pray for a while – We stop & pause.

    Folks, sorry, let’s reflect and pray for a while – We stop & pause.

    What does prayer mean to you, my friends?

    Good afternoon, and greetings to one and all!

    Thanks for being around, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ. How are you folks doing?

    Lately, I had been watching a few more video podcasts, or, I believe you can call those that way.

    From Catholic priests like Bishop Robert Barron, Fr. Fiel Pareja, and Fr. Eva Chibuzo Asadu (and a few others too, whose ministry I get to listen to, online).

    My friends, it is a blessing for me, also.

    A profound way, while still being a practical way, to grow in our Catholic Christian faith.

    Folks, listening to Catholic priests, nuns, brothers and other lay-ministers or persons like us. Has helped lead me to a deeper faith and prayer life.

    Although, I hope it has also led to some behavioral changes. The things I need to change, in order for me to grow as, like you and others, to grow as a disciple of Christ Jesus, our Lord.

    It is possible to grow. Even amidst our modern technology, fast and instant services, and what have you.

    I think, we need faith all the more, nowadays, my friends.

    It is easy for us to get lost, or, to even lose ourselves in the pursuit of so many things. We think are worth the while. Yes, my friends?

    That, for one, we often forget that eternity lasts forever. And that our earthly lives might be, for all that I could imagine, a drop in the vastness of eternity.

    Folks, I’m not saying don’t entertain yourselves with what we have presently. No, sorry.

    In my opinion, I think we should give it some of our serious time. To fervently pray from a quiet block of our time, hopefully daily, if we can, and at times actively listen to our spiritually more mature brothers and sisters in the church.

    With this, I would like to invite you to pray with me. Yes, let’s pray.

    We must get ourselves grounded first.

    We lift up and learn to surrender ourselves to God. And ask God to take care of everything.

    Peace be with you, my friends.

    And thanks for being around here, at this time. God bless.