How does it feel to be a Quad CCIE + JNCIE?

A lot of my friends in US, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia etc flooded me with email after they learned I obtained my 4th CCIE, Voice. Some also asked what's the feeling of being the first Malaysian (I am working overseas though) to obtain 4 X CCIE + JNCIE.

Seriously, I do not feel any special for having all these titles. I have three friends, one with 5 CCIE+ JNCIE and another two with 5 CCIE so I am still one short of them haha. I also think being a multiple CCIE does not mean you should go around telling people that you have this and that blah blah blah. It is always good to be humble.

Then there are some friends who asked "then why do you want to get so many CCIE titles if you do not feel special having conquering them?" Please don't get me wrong. I feel good whenever I conquered any CCIE track. However, getting as many CCIE titles as possible is not my goal. The very reason for me to go for CCIE is: I try to learn the technologies

• that are closely related to my work
  
• that I am interested in
• that I feared and hence I wanted to eliminate the fear by mastering it (for example voice; I became voice-phobia after working on a quite complex voip project when I was with a Japanese ISP in Tokyo)

"So what is next?", some asked. Most people seem to think I will definitely go for CCIE Storage. Yupe I will if I got myself transferred to DCN Team but currently I am still not into that position yet. Hence, CCIE Storage is not within my scope in the near future. "Then how about CCDE?" I am interested in the Design (I had CCDP back in 2000 but that wasn't very helpful) but we will need to see how it goes. I really do not want to see it fizzles out again like what happened to CCIE-Design back in 2000. Also, it much depends on my boss. If my boss wants me to go for it, I will. If not, then just sit back, relax and learn some new Wimax technology that I am currently working on. "How about CCIE Wireless?", some continued to ask. Well, it definitely is interesting but I have never touched any Aironet, to be true.... If Aironet becomes very viable and popular, yes, I might go for the track, partly also to push myself to learn the technologies better.

So in summary, it's great to have 4 CCIE titles but I am still humbled by Cisco CCO database, which is just way too vast to be explored all. Every day I still learn something new from that. Do you think a CCIE Service Provider would know everything about MPLS? If someone says yes, then I think most likely he is overconfident and you need to bring him to Cisco CCO DB....