2008 Review

Thank you to Kit, his blog motivates me to write a blog to summarize things that happened in 2008. It's been a very long time since I wrote my last blog, but as there isn't much to update in my life (which is a good thing on one hand), therefore there isn't much for me to write.

Looking back at 2008, there were a few things happened in my life, the biggest one was moving onto a new job taking on a new role at work. To recap:

Health
In general, I am healthy but I think from time to time (usually once for every 2 month), I will do get sick (perhaps from stress or anti-work syndromes). Anyways, I will try to keep myself in a good health this year, as a day of from work means more work the day after.

Finance
I don't have much affect from the financial tsunami as I don't have any interests in stocks or funds. Perhaps the only affect that I have from it will be my MPF and how it affects the overall market situation, where people are more cautious of how and what they spend on. This would have a dramatic impact to my industry, as traveling is always a dispensable item, people can avoid to travel as much as they can, especially based on the existing technology that is available to the public.

Interpersonal relations
Overall, I spent less time with all my friends since this new job and role that I took in the beginning of 2008. Still try to maintain contact with them either via email or facebook. I just love facebook as we can reach friends and family easily, also it helps to know the latest update about them.

Work
New job and new responsibility at work means longer working hours and less personal life. Up till now, I'm still trying to get the balance of work and personal life, in the same time to have good quality of life too. This is just very hard for me, but I'm sure I will try to work on this in 2009. I had experienced many changes in our management within 9 months of the new opening. It is hard for me and I tried to learn how to adapt changes asap. Hopefully things will be better this year, thank god that I have a good team to work with. It is always nice to have good working colleagues in such environment, otherwise I won't be able to last in this company for such a long time.

Travel
I went to Tokyo and Hakone last year and I just love those places. I will definitely need to visit there again, especially hot spring for relaxation.

Relationship
There isn't any changes with my relationship with Kit, many people have asked me why we aren't getting married after we are together for such a long time. For me (hopefully for him too), we believe that the marriage is nothing more than a signed paper document from the official government. As long as we are happy nothing needs to change from our current situation, perhaps one day things may change in the future. Who knows?

Anyways, let's see what will change in a year time.