As we close out 2008 and look forward to 2009, let me start with wishing you all the best for 2009! But let's remember to put our priorities in place and take time to be with our families and friends. This is also a time when we should reach out and give back to our communities in need. I send you off to safe travels and take a moment to enjoy the holiday spirit!
From Celia Harper-Guerra
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all, with best wishes for persistence if you fail the lab, and humility when you pass.
Ethan Banks CCIE #20655
To all CCIE Flyer Readers: Happy Holidays and best wishes for the New Year! And a special thanks to Eman for creating this forum for CCIEs and for bringing together the World CCIE community. Wish you all the best, and for the polish readers: Szczesliwego Nowego Roku.
From CCIE #1337 Jerzy Sliwinski (new CCIE Flyer contributor for 2009)
My wish for the New Year is that the language between nations be one voice clearly communicating the strength of a community UNITED.
Happy Holidays and the best of the New Year to everyone.
Jack Taylor
Eman asked me to write something about the New Year, which I found to be surprisingly difficult. I wanted to avoid the typical cliches. With the economy and events around us in question, I realized what to say. Each of us can work on helping those around us: family, friends, co-workers, and employers in 2009. Working together will help everyone through the economic downturn and general uncertainty that exists today. Spend time with our families; help someone find a job; help employers be productive. Best wishes for 2009.
Terry Slatery CCIE #1026 (CCIE Flyer Contributor)
I would like to send my best regards to all readers of the CCIE Flyer at the end of 2008, with my compliments of the season; and my best wishes to them for a healthy, happy, successful year 2009. Thank you for working with Bridge Resourcing Solutions, and for supporting the CCIE Flyer. May the year bring you fulfillment in your various projects, the wisdom to navigate the various perils and challenges that lie ahead for all of us, and immense satisfaction in your future achievements.
Toby Grey Finance Director, Bridge Resourcing Solutions
Hi Eman,
I’d love to say a few words to the CCIE Flyer readers.
“Dear CCIE’s and readers of the CCIE flyer, many thanks for your dedication to Cisco and to your profession, your commitment to our certifications make the world turn, you impact connectivity and the Human Network every second of every day, helping to transform countries, bring people closer together and truly change lives. I’d like to say thank you to Eman for producing his CCIE flyer, I know I look forward to reading it every month and I hope you do too. I wish you the very best wishes during the holiday period and continued success in 2009.”
Best regards Eman, you are 1 in a million. I really appreciate everything you have done and are doing.
Eden Britt – Global Lead Talent Attraction, Partner Talent Team. Cisco
To all CCIEFLYER readers,
I would like to express my sincere thanks to the Editor for giving me the chance to wish you all a happy and blissful New Year full of joy and success, I hope 2009 will be the best year for all CCIEs and future CCIEs around the world.
With my best regards
To Emmanuel Conde,
This year I learned from you to keep up the hard work and never give-up. In a time when you got me a job but I couldn’t get the visa an unexpected and great help came from you through the article about me in the CCIEFLYER. I had an interview for a resettlement through a UNHCR program that helps Iraqi refugees for resettlement in the United States. Your article really supported my case for resettlement to the U.S. I showed this article to the employee who made the interview with me for the resettlement and the article made him realize what kind of difficulties I was going through and he told me that I am lucky to have you as a friend. I got my preliminary approval for resettlement a few days ago and now I have the hope to start a new life with my family in the US and once again I couldn’t reach this point without your help, I would like to thank you for your help and support and wish you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year also I wish for CCIE FLYER all the success.
Karam Hanna
Lebanon
Christmas is a time to savour and enjoy with those who mean the most in our lives, and we must enjoy it – to the full! It is also a time to give thanks for what we have, and to think about how we can help those in desperate pain or circumstances. This will inspire us to hit the New Year with fresh fortitude, to do our best both for our families and for the needy.
Happy Christmas!
Charles Whitaker
"May the New Year bring good health and happiness to you,
your family, and friends, and may 2009 be even better than 2008! :-)"
Happy Holidays,
Jerry Anderson CCIE #5000
(new CCIE Flyer contributor)
Wishing all the CCIE Flyer readers a Happy Holiday- Merry Christmas from Germaine
Kind Regards
Germaine Eccles Cisco Partner Talent Program
' May your saddest day of 2009 be no worse than your happiest day of 2008'...taken from an Irish blessing
'The future is not set and there is no fate but what we make for ourselves'....Irish proverb
Above all let us each try to create a world in 2009 that is a little bit better than it was in 2008. Small kindnesses really matter.
I hope that everyone will commit one act of random kindness every day..........and I hope that we remember to be good to each other before it's too late
Sean Redmond - CCIE Agent Team Lead – Europe
Dear Eman,
Thank you for this email, it makes one stop and think a bit less of one’s SELF. So...for the New Year, I wish for the world that we all start thinking of it more as OUR place to live, share, and dream rather than MY place in our doings...
I'm not sure if it makes much sense but still...:)
Merry Xmas and all the best in the New Year, Eman,
Romana.
My name is Dan, Webmaster of the CCIEFLYER. On behalf of me and my family, we want to extend our best wishes for a Happy New Year! It is our sincerest desire that the New Year brings each of you the promise of something better.
When I was first approached by Eman on the concept of the CCIEFLYER, I had no idea what to expect. During the past few months, I have been introduced to some of the finest people on the planet. I am also reminded how small this world is when I read about your struggles, expectations, and most of all your zeal for life. Though we speak many different languages, one common thread found in all of the stories thus far is the desire for more than just self improvement. Each of you has expressed how important this is for the quality of life you hope to share with your family. My brother and I share this value.
Family is important. This wish goes out to each member of our staff, our readers, and contributors, and to those you cherish.
Dan Conde
Your CCIEFLYER Webmaster
Wishing you all a Happy New Year one filled with joy, love and the warmth of family and friends. I especially hope we all find a place of peace in our souls and hearts even if not possible in our world. May the blessings we realize in the smallest of things grow to the largest of smiles and the contagion of this smile, infect all those around you.
(P.S. I hope Santa , if you are reading the CCIE Flyer, please bring me a new guitar, you know one of those cool D-28 custom Martin’s with the nice mother of pearl inlays on the fret board and the real nice head stock!)
Love you all and thank you for reading the CCIE Flyer!
Eman