2024 is over. This year I’m approaching FIRE, I don’t have to work anymore. Of course, I will have to change my life style and stop my lavendish spending which my wife always scold me of. My biggest failure is unable to launch magicbloom yet. There is a period I tried to dedicate 2 weeks to it, but after that I don’t have any more free time.

I came to the US in 2010. But life was shit. Coming from an abusive family with zero support, or even worse, I’m the one to support family. In the first few years I don’t even dare to think of anything good that can happen. Life is toughshit. But it was still less shitty than when I was in Vietnam. I had a bad childhood which I give me traumatize and the reason I will never set my foot in Vietnam again to forgot everything.

Thanks to American for what I had today. 15 years. Restarting my life from scratch, give me a chance to thriving. I got married here, with a beautiful and loyal wife which I cannot asked for me and two kids. I love my children more than everything else, I wish they grow up and thriving.

I’m not regretting it at all. I had always priority my family and my children well-being on top of everything. Every moment I spend with them is priceless. There is nothing like a child looking at you, and have full trust on you.

But other than that, 2024 is am amazing years for me.

My children has grown up so fast, and start o have independent though and their critical thinking and reasoning about the world. I couldn’t wait until they get to university and go to workforce
My app is growing: I pour zero effort into marketing because I’m too busy and it has been rock solid and pull in 1k for me with next to none involvement. I had so many idea but has to set aside
I had setup foundationfor magicbloom
I had my wife perform eyes surgery. It isn’t 100% perfect but no more glass

One of the proudest moment I had done is giving a $10k of donation when I lost an income stream of $20k per month. Natureally

What I did wrong

Two things

Failed to launch magicbloom: I had many so many things on my plate.
I failure to advanced further in my Japanese learning as I wished too. But I had study every single day for last 500 days, and I was able to know the alphabet and simple work for daily simple conversation and traveling

What I did right

What I really looking for in 2025

Launching Bamboo: I had so much pain doing it and I had wrote Bamboo. I had a habit of writing my own tool for pretty much everything Launching Magicbloom:

My private pilot license so I can fly an airplane: I’m probably has to push to 2026 with my current schedule.

What I’m super thankful

Single word. My wife. She has been single handled handle and save me shit ton of money. She has pushed me to spend less and save money instead of wasting on useless stuff.

What I’m super proud of

I had built a VM and workflow engine similar to Retool. Implement entire the protocol for client<->server in gRPC to schedule, test and run web3 workflow. starting from scratch. doing ton of research.anyone in web3 knows it’s a shit show with an insider knowledge. Document is bare and minimum. You just gotta read the code.

I had learn in and out of terraform and many of its internal working. I can do “magic” with it.

I had started to self-hosted my content and stopping using google photos. I plan to abandom BitWarden eventually and will self-host all of my stuff.

We make countless trips as soon as the kids are comfortable with.

What I had change