Rick’s Playground

During the past one year, I have travelled to different parts of the world due to my job and I find it a very interesting and eye-openning experience. So i decide to note them down in this blog and it shall be fun to read it 10 or 20 years later.

June 2006: Dubai - The New York in Middle East

Engaged in a project with Standard Chartered Bank and realised that Friday is the weekend in Dubai. Petrol is cheap … outdoor temperature: > 45C…

Sep 2006: Hongkong Causeway Bay’s XO Snail

Foodstores along the street opened until 2am at Causeway … met Li Ka-shing (Li Jia Cheng) in Cheung Kong Building (PwC HK office) …

April 2007: UK London Subway, Fire engine, Police …

people like to say “cheers”… had a difficult time to liasing with different teams in the client’s rigid corporate structure … the fried garlic hotdog along the street is very nice … made friend with a Norwegian surgeon in a taven near Coven Garden …

I have just recieved my long waited CISSP and CISA certificates. The happy feeling only lasted for a couple of minutes … Do these certificates really mean any thing? I can’t feel the thrill and any sense of achievement although these two certs were the goals i set for myself 3 years ago when I just graduated and joined a local IT security firm. Maybe they are just a reminder for me to pull away from all the so-call “high level” business talks which are so prevalent in the local IT security industry.