Sunday, January 11, 2009

Looking back on 2008

OK. I know that it's already mid Jan 2009, but although I've always been wanting to post this entry, I kept forgetting or pushing it back due to other stuff.

2008 has really been an eventful year. On a global scale, there were all the crisises that happened: China earthquake, India terrorism holdup where a Singaporean was killed, beginning of the Financial Crisis, just to name a few. In my memory, there has never been such a scary year, with so many major events happening. One major event which was not bad was the US Elections where Obama came out as the first black president of the US. Hopefully he'll be better than George Bush.

In my personal life, there had been so many events too. Gladys went overseas for studies and came back. I finished my HYP and graduated. I went on to finally joining DBS, on the Management Associates Programme, and made a bunch of new friends. Gladys and I developed to a further level in terms of our relationship, and actually made the decision to buy a house! OK, the house buying part was actually in 2009, but the decision and the search started in 2008.

No matter what, life still goes on. 2008 has been a year of changes for the world, and for the two of us as a couple and as individuals. How will 2009 be? I can only hope that it'll be better, as well as work on making it better.