It was not a good start for 2010 with the occurrences of few instances of churches and schools been perpetrated with attacks in the last couple of days, leaving many to us to wondering what had really happened to this country, which used to be and hopefully continue to be a harmonious country. You have never had before a new year wish to live in a safe and peaceful country (Malaysian have always take this for granted). Nevertheless for 2010, you have just included this as the main one in your list. You know you are not the only one.
In the last decade, we witnessed the worst financial crisis in 2008 Q4 - 2009, probably one of the worst in our life time for some with many tightened the purse strings in the economic recession. For Malaysian, 1997-1998 financial crisis was the probably a worse one with many of our friends, colleagues or family members & relatives lost their jobs or forced to change their careers unwillingly. We also had the memory of the worst scares during the SARS epidemic in 2003 and over 70+ death cases in the H1N1 outbreak, which caught a lot of us in surprise in 2009.
Other than the above, As the saying "The only constant in life is change" goes, you know you must embrace 2010 as a new decade of changes with the following wishes laid out in this year.
Moving into the next decade and worked for than 15 years in the same field, a strong feeling and urge arisen for diversification into another career, not in the IT field. This feeling existed in the last couple of years and became much stronger now at this juncture. All this while you often think IT is a industry which really discriminates the players by age. Staff moving into the middle age like you (35 and above) are often hit with bottlenecks and we are not as competitive as the new entries in their young age in acquiring the new technology & skills, which are essential for the survival in this field. In this aspects, you told yourself many times that you would spare more time this year to venture and diversify from the usual track.
This is also a year for your execution of planned travels with a minimum of 2 weeks for at least 2 trips. A trip is currently being planned for China ChengDu and Xi'an for 2-3 weeks in April this year, an extension from last year's trip of 6 cities in China. Another trip, hopefully in Europe, at the second half of the year have not been planned yet. You also hope that the trip to Shanghai for the visit to Shanghai Expo (held from 1st May - 31st Oct 2010) can be materialized, but this can be expensive due to the foreseeable huge crowd from the worldwide.
In addition, you would continue the reading habit for this year with at least 24 books per year (about 2 books per month). Books on Financials have been your focus in the previous years and you hope that this would change this year.
The final one would be to achieve the financial objective of the net worth target by end of the year, which you had initially stated from 2007. The journey is definitely bumpy considering the economic recovery does not seem to be as solid and sustainable as we first thought.
Attach here a photo snapped this morning, looking out to the window from the bed. The rising sun, hopefully would bring everyone a sea of good changes, and of course the required wisdom to enbrace the challenges.
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