Well, apparently I published what I was typing earlier on older blog and would hate to just copy and paste it over…. that’s just too unoriginal! So welcome, I started this blog after reading James Altucher’s Choose Yourself [http://amzn.to/1eUU5q5 if you’re interested] and realized that it’s time to come out of a coma. I like having financial freedom, I like having happy friends, and I like moving forward in life. Even if I got my dream job of working at Google…. maybe I would be pretty happy, but there’s no harm in being a bit entrepreneurial about it so that I could make some more on the side! Throughout this blog, I’m just going to write about my updates and my mindsets.. feel free to leave a comment!

Well I should introduce myself. Right now, I’m 22 and I’ve been in and out of university for six years. I’ve dropped out to dabble in the stockmarket – making and losing hundreds of thousands then millions of my parents money, played and competed in a popular online game known as League of Legends competitively, and taken quite a bit a time off to just travel the world – staying in major cities/countries such as Paris, England(London), Belgium, China [Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Changsha] and Taiwan for relatively long periods of time. I’ve also visited Thailand, Canada, Mexico, and planning to go to Korea/Japan after I graduate.

Alright cool, so the point of this blog is just personal discovery. I crave my own success, I realize that making big money at a big job may not give me the complete freedom that I desire, and I want to make money even while I’m asleep. But I’m just a student, I’m penniless if my parents cut me off [which they did], and I have no idea how I’m going to find passion while creating value for myself. So that’s what this blog is for – hopefully if I succeed, you can learn from what I did when I had nothing [now]. My first step is going to be a quick venture into the web industry: it’s all about visibility and I just happen to be a Computer Science major – why not? I was thinking on my plane back from Taipei, what could I really do with no experience in the industry? And I decided that I’m going to ask local restaurants that I enjoy if I could make a website for them.. free of charge – maybe some free food? I’ll definitely be curious to see how that happens. By the way, I have very little web experience – I even had to drop a web development class I took because I just wasn’t working on a subject I was enthusiastic about and didn’t bother to learn.

Another part of the journey is realizing that everything I learn is for myself. I won’t be cryptic to the point where I start hating on the university system but I just see no point unless you’re learning for fun – which is much better than cramming to graduate by the way- or actively learning to find that puzzle piece of your plan. I appreciate that the school I go to, UC San Diego, allows me to take whatever classes I want. I love jumping around taking math, physics, biology, engineering [mostly bio/electrical], philosophy, and psychology classes. Some I take for fun, others I take because I feel it creates personal value and as I said above: I’m a CS major because it’s practical, worth my time, and keeps me updated with the latest and greatest. Most of the classes I took were useless to graduating yet I feel they define who I am and how I think. While I didn’t always have this mindset, I wish the rigidity in the education system would bend to allowing students to create a more personalized graduation plan.

So I’ll cut this first blog post at this point, and read a little bit more of other people’s blogs (you guys should check out IEatFancy @ blogspot if you havent before…. the food looks so good)! Happy holidays and let’s all work on creating a new 2014! ^^