1. HTML5
2. CSS3
3. Javascript
4. Facebook
5. Chinese

Not in any particular order… though I bet I’ll learn HTML5 before I learn Chinese…

Yesterday I accepted a job offer from Facebook in Ireland for a role in their Online Sales department. I’ll start on February 8th and I’m planning on moving a few days earlier to get settled in.

This means that I can now check step two from my 2009 goals:

1. Graduate
2. Find job
3. Get apartment

That leaves the apartment, which I’ll get in Dublin in February. So I still count that as a win. The more dull part will begin now and that’s to make budgets and plan for my stay there until I get my first paycheck.

My job searching is still going on; there are a lot of interesting opportunities out there. I am looking for more job opportunities abroad now and I’m hoping to find something in China or South East Asia, say Singapore or Malaysia.

I like to stay active so not having a job at the moment is keeping me very very bored. ParsLibris and The MMO Gamer are two projects that are helping to keep me occupied. We have launched ParsLibris, sort of a stealth launch and will be focusing on bringing in more users and books while I works sales to get us some customers.

On The MMO Gamer, things are going well but still hoping for a faster growth. The podcast project is helping; we’re getting great shows and awesome guests on the show. Happy times!

Enough babbling from me, now back to job hunting.

I’ve been to a wedding and to Venice this summer and here are the picture to prove it:

http://kheldon.net/zenphoto/index.php?album=travels%2Fvenice09

http://kheldon.net/zenphoto/index.php?album=events%2Fdavidwedding09

Hope you like them.

As you can see, I have a new blog design. I like to shake things up every now and then. ;P I’ll be poking around with the design and the site a bit, maybe integrate with Twitter and Facebook.

In other news, c.r.a. group has launched its first site; ParsLibris.se. It’s a Swedish booksharing community and its currently in beta testing. If you can read Swedish, go ahead and register and send me some feedback.

The MMO Gamer is doing well and has just started a podcast, Working As Intended. Havign fun with Jeffrey and Steve on that on. Hopefully it’ll help in bringing in some revenue as well.

So I’m done with 1 of the 3 things I want to finish this year:

1. Graduate
2. Find job
3. Get appartment

The jobfinding might prove a challenge, but I’ll manage. My backup plan is to start learning Chinese if I can’t find a job by August. I want to learn more languages and from a career perspective, Chinese has a lot of potential. And obviously I’d try to learn Chinese while IN China.

Over at c.r.a. group we’re almost finished with our first project. We will be hitting beta at the end of this month (we’ve been saying that for a year now, but this time it’s really happening!)

And The MMO Gamer is chugging along just fine. I’d like to expand the site more, get better advertising and start the podcast project as well. Hoping to get some of that done this summer.

My classes this semester, the last semester for my Master’s degree are Entrepreneurship and Managing Multinational Corporations. And of course, writing my master thesis. Haven’t found a co-writer for the latter yet…but the school is having a meeting on Wednesday, hoping to find someone there.

Jobhunting is ongoing…though it seems I might be out a tad early. At least for some companies. I’ll keep trying though…especially for the trainee positions.

The MMO Gamer is going well…we picked up the slack compared to December and hopefully we’ll continue moving in a positive trend. I have a special project in the works, but we’ll look at that later.

c.r.a. group is also going well, and marching along. Almost done with the market plan, And then weäll finish the business plan and then make millions! Just saw the first designs for our first project…looks awesome! We’re focusing on one project at a time now..put some other things on hold so we can actually finish something.

This year has a lot of possibilities. Graduation, degree, job, apartment… The possibilities are endless! The first three are almost a must. Only way I don’t get those is if something goes wrong. -_-

I also see see good things ahead for The MMO Gamer as well as c.r.a. group and our projects. At least one c.r.a. project will launch this year, the first one before the summer. And The MMO Gamer has a project in the works as well, which should launch before the summer as well, possibly earlier rather than later.

Cheers for a great 2008 and for the coming year!

P.S. My New Year’s resolution? I’ll keep it broad and vague. “To do better.”

Yesterday I compiled a list of 24 companies of interest, either because they have the kind of positions I want to apply for or because they have trainee-programmes I want to apply for. With a bit of luck, I’ll have a job or trainee position by the time I pick up my Masters’s degree in June. If anybody has any suggestions where a fresh graduate in business administration specializing towards management and in IT… let me know. I’d love to apply for positions abroad as well.

www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/products/60122471

I’m on my winter break now, which gives me a couple of weeks of semi-rest. I still have 2-3 assignments to fisnish for school, but no classes until January.Also going to take the opportunity to redecorate my room, so I can fit the new clothes hanger in.

Watched a couple of good movies recently, Red (IMDB) and Henry Poole is Here (IMDB). Very good movies both of them, both slow paced but very good.

And of course, plowing through TV shows. Getting into House again…and will probably watch Scrubs regularly, it has grown on me. Legend of the Seeker is OK and so is Merlin. And Dexter is awesome.