2009 was an acceptable year. But I was not sorry to see it go.

I had many ambitions and expectations from it, but it somehow disappointed me.

It was the year when I started over from scratch in my career, a total change of environment and job discipline, with a lower income, and had to leave my comfort zone and my family to right in the heart of a jungle.

It was the year when I lost a very important person in my life, whom I cared and adored for 3 years, and left me full of scars and bruises. Most important of all, it left me with a huge fear of being hurt again.

A year when I had to be away from my closest buddies and miss almost every gathering they had, and can only watch their photos enviously on Facebook.

A year can only be what it turns out to be, and the year 2009 won’t be going into anyone’s baby books, except, maybe, for those who had a baby this year.

As an optimist, I have aspirations for this newborn year :

1. First, I would like to see my career prosper. I will dedicate most of my time and energy into self development and focus fully on this engineering career and hope I can be able to grow fast enough to achieve my dreams in life.

2. Second, I want to seriously commit myself into exercises and try to lose at least 20kgs. My current BMI is at 30.8, which means I’m technically obese. I would also like to pick up some new sports, like golf perhaps? It’s very useful for people who grow old very fast like me, you know.

3. This year I would also like to see the Government of Malaysia implementing sensible policies that treat people of all races equally. I want to see the quota system removed and the political havoc stabilized, and the government for once can truly focus on Nation Building. Hahahahaha! Sorry. I crack myself up sometimes.

4. I would want to do more traveling this year. Perhaps to a further place. Like Europe or the US. If my wallet permits I would also like to go someplace else for scuba diving instead of going to the same island and same spot all the time. I also hope Alex will graduate from his flying school this year, get into a great airline, and allow me to take advantage of some cheap flight tickets to countries I’ve yet to go.

5. Additionally, in 2010 I would want to get into a really (and i mean really) stable relationship. I think I’ve had my share of heart aches and ding-dongs and I guess enough is enough. I know I can be quite hard to get along sometimes (please understand that I’m Hainanese), but I still believe there will be some girl out there who could accept the so many imperfections of myself and be willing to love me for who I am. Whether I’m in sickness and in health, in poverty or wealth, I pledge, that my next girl friend will be the luckiest and the happiest girl friend in the world ever!

Finally, I guess I would like to make more amount of money in 2010 compared to 2009. I won’t ask for too much. But it would be hard to make it on less.

That’s about it I suppose. Why not hope for the very best?

Oh yeah…. did I mention world peace?