LAN Cable

It was our team's quarterly coffee talk yesterday. We were asked to bring a meaningful object that should tell an interesting story about us, our past, present, or future. Some showed mushy stuffs that really touched our hearts, while others presented simple yet very deep(philosophical actually) insights about themselves.

For myself, I presented a LAN cable. At first glance, it might seem to be one of those simple-yet-deep ones (I realized this when I was already standing to present it, haha!), however it's not under that category. The LAN cable reminds me of the Cisco Networking Challenge 2005 that my wife (my gf back then) and I competed into. For the hands-on round(final round), we were given a complicated network to setup. My wife did the crimping part of the LAN cables while I did the connection between the switches and routers using the LAN cable she made. She also took the task of subnetting the networks, finding out the range of IP addresses for each subnet, etc. while I took the computer seat to configure the workstations, switches and routers. With great effort and hard work, we were able to win it.

Well, the LAN cable primarily reminds me of my wife in so many ways. The way she twists and arranges the wires, the way she crimps with much force, and how delicate she cuts the rubber coat protecting the wires reminds me of how much she consistently and delicately ensures her work to have a perfect touch. I really admire her for this and how I wish I can be as consistent as her.

Darn, now I'm missing her more and more *sigh...