I recently came across this post online call "Love an Entrepreneurship" and here is what he wrote:

“We all know all the benefits that come the moment we become a successful entrepreneur. But like all perceived great things, as people, we tend to focus more on what we can gain, rather than what we can lose. I think the biggest thing aspiring entrepreneurs don’t understand is what they are getting themselves into before they jump into the pool. I am not talking about issues of never “making it” or going through the struggles, I am talking about the things you will realize that you need to give up in order to succeed.

For those that know me, you will know that I tons of aspiring and successful entrepreneurs. Based on my experiences and insight,  I discovered was that the biggest thing you lose is not free time once you decide to make this dedication, the biggest thing you lose is your actually deep relationships with people/loved ones.

I have experience this myself, I am actually going through it right now believe it or not. I have set the bar VERY high for myself, so high to the point where people would think I am irrational. Lately, I have been accessing my relationships with my loved ones and realized how much I have lost touch. One you get so deep and focused on what you want for yourself, it is really easy to forget about the people around you. While this is bad, from my experience, the sad truth is, it really does take EXTREME focus in order to succeed.

Another issue that myself and a lot of others have encountered is our relationships with our bf/gf’s (if we have any). The weird thing about aspiring entrepreneurs is that we tend to aim so high that we start to stray away from the same wavelength as the majority of the people. If I had to remember the hardest thing I had to do during this journey, it would be letting go of someone whom I really had deep feelings for and cared about. It is because that we want so much and always seem “unsatisfied” that tells people we are not ready for a committed relationship at this point in our lives. And you know what? They are completely right. This is absolutely the time to really focus on building ourselves if we want to have a fighting chance with all this competition. It may be cold-hearted or even “selfish”, but in all honesty, I stand by the believe that if we want to win more, then we gotta risk more.

I write this post to not discourage anybody that sees themselves wanting to be entrepreneurs in the future, I write this to simply share my thoughts of what you may be getting yourself into. Getting into entrepreneurship truly tests your self discipline as a human being. You will lose friends along the way and have to let go of people who you care about and even love for the sake of your future. As cold as it sounds, in the end, this IS a cut-throat industry and only the strong survive. So everyone, if this still hasn’t stopped you, then be ready to handle the pain and anguish, don’t worry though, I KNOW you guys can handle it”

The first time I read this, I was fist pumping because I knew I am not the only "selfish" entrepreneur out there who always strive for better things and never settle for less.  There are many of us who work hard and take risk each day in return for the high life that we always have been dreaming of.  But after the conversation I had with my dad the other night, I realized that being successful is important, but more importantly, what does success mean to you.  There are many powerful and successful men and women out there who can get anything they want, and yet still not happy with life.  "We [entrepreneurs] tend to focus more on what we can gain, rather than what we can lose", but in the end, we are still not happy because we never for once slow down to think about what really makes us happy.  

So, couple things I want to point out:

1. You can't have everything in this world.  Really, you can't!  Don't get stuck into this deep hole because it's hard to get out.  This is no different than getting stuck in the rat race.  Learn to appreciate, and more importantly, learn to satisfy.
2. Figure out yourself and know what makes you happy.  This is the tough one and I am still trying to figure it out myself.  But one thing I do realized is I like the attention.  I definitely love the feeling of having someone who's always thinking about me and someone I can depended on.  After all, I am a mama's boy.

That's all I have to say for now, more to come later.

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I finally got a chance to play around with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for the first time.  I was able to get it up and running with Firefox's plugin Elasticfox, but I did run into one problem.  After I installed Apache on there, I wasn't able to access it on the web.  I tried to ping the IP, but there was no response either.  Hrm..  Well, after digging around on the web and asking my friends what could be the cause, it turn out that I had to change the default group permission setting. 

You can change the group permission setting by going to the "Security Group" section.  Inside there you will see a list of "Allowed Connections", just make sure you add a HTTP method, add port 80 and set the Source CIDR to 0.0.0.0/0 (allows all IPs).

So yeah, for those EC2 newbies (myself included) out there, if you are having problem accessing the server, make sure you have the correct protocol set up!  Hopefully, this tip will save you the time I have wasted today...

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I have to admit, I really enjoy reading on my iPad.  iBook is such an awesome application.  The built-in dictionary and bookmark features are very handy.  The only downfall with iBook right now is that the books selection is limited, but I am sure this will change in the near future.  For now, the Kindle app will be my backup.

I am still on the first chapter of the book, but have already gained some practical tips, such as "a" versus "an", when to use "e.g." and "i.e.".  Some of these tips might be common sense, but you will be surprise how many people don't know about them.  I highly suggest the book to those who are interested in improving their grammar.  I will also be blogging about some of these tips as I am reading through the chapters.

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