Happy late new year! – it’s been a long minute since I made a blog post on my own website, primarily just a lot going on in my personal life that disrupted me throughout the last half of 2025. Now?, still kinda the same but want to get myself completely back on track and on my feet again hitting the deep end. 

Since 2026 has arrived, a lot of people have new years goals albeit good to make goals and should make goals regardless (if it’s new years or not in my opinion). I want to look at 2026 as starting fresh in a way. First off the bat, I plan on obtaining the AWS certificates listed below due to my interest in the subject of the certificates:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate – SAA-C03
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner – CLF-C02
• AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate – SOA-C03
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional – DOP-C02
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate – DVA-C02

Along with AWS certificates, I want to be certificated in CKA (Certificated Kubernetes Administrator). This certificate may take time to get because I want to make sure I pass on the first try due to the price of this certificate so I want to be double sure I can and will pass so I want to study really hard on this certificate. 

Not committing to anything yet on this due to no available quiet places to record videos but I would like to continue my AWShorts series, along with creating more video types, let’s see what I can do to pursue this as I would like to build a video portfolio of just myself with technologies I love and want to explore or just random videos I want to make. 

I have more plans around technology and projects and I’d like to talk about them later on in the year (if I can be consistent with posting to my own blog haha). I also want to build small projects and commit them to my GitHub repository, currently I have a few ideas like plugins, video game plugins, small applications and more. 

I am also currently redesigning my personal website to reflect this year’s goal, a fresh new start. I can’t fully comment on when the website design will be updated but it’s in the works right now and hopefully will be updated before August (keyword “hopefully”). 

Next, I want to do my best to study Japanese much better than before. I’m using a routine app to create a daily routine checklist to study by. I would like to increase study time but for now I want to ease into a harder study routine with the goal in mind to try to take the N4 level Japanese language proficiency test in December. If not N4, then at least become more better in Japanese

I’m hopeful I can achieve being more proactive this year with building myself up with certificates, projects, YouTube and more. 

Let’s see where this year goes and come back to this blog post before 2027.