My course list for this semester:

• Maya - 12 units
• Negotiation - 6 units
• Golf - 3 units
• Tennis - 3 units

Being the hard-core workaholic that I am, I was initially uncomfortable with the sudden huge amount of free time I had at hand. As empty as it felt at first, I am beginning to appreciate the long overdue slow-down in the pace of life now. No more rushing to finishing a homework. No more rushing to finish up a project due in half hour’s time. No more rushing a meal to work on a stupid piece of code. I started to be able to do things that I always wanted to do in earlier semesters. Take courses I really want to take.

It feels good - and refreshing. Indeed my best semester ever.