So fast another year has passed us by and this marks the dawning of another brand new decade to come. Think of the moment in time long ago when we tried to picture how old our son and daughter shall be once we reached a certain threshold age of your life. Your son will probably be graduating and your daughter is finishing her high school etc. We are gradually and almost caught unpreparedly in approaching that age, used to be just far ahead imagination but it is for real now! Life is as though you are spending time each day just for that day to come true! I still remember during my secondary school days, a teacher by the name of Madam Tang told us in the class that all you do for the most part of your life, you are doing it for the sake of your children! We were a bit puzzled over what she meaned then but now we begin to realize how true is her statement!
Writing on a blog like this has its ups and downs. Some months you could be productive, inspired to write a bit more by so many events or happenings around you; while other months you just feel like lying dormant and doing nothing. Taking a hindsight, I had written 92 articles for year 2010, which was not so bad afterall! English is never a language that I had intended to use for writing a blog like this. The language itself was a big handicap for me because I came from a Chinese primary and secondary school background. Chinese would be my preferred language because I have a better command and proficiency acquired through my years of education and novels reading. However over the many later working years, the job nature and the environment requirement had left me little choice but compelled to express myself more in English.
Life is always beyond your expectation and full of surprises! I remember during my 4 years stay in Taiwan I used to wake up and confused on what dialect I should use for the day, whether Cantonese or Mandarin. Today I am in the state of Trengganu, being the only Chinese in the Production Administration office, I speak and use the Malay language for daily conversation and meetings most of my time! I am still wondering, what region or country I shall be in for the next phase of my career? Vietnam, Brazil or China again?
Taking inventory on what I had done for year 2010, I would say I had acquired the knowledge of the steel industry by spending almost 2 years here in this hot-rolling steel mills. The place by the seaside that I had chosen to reside, give me ample opportunity and space to take on cycling and jogging. Such training had contributed to good physical fitness that enables me to take on a half marathon run without much of a problem. Over that period I had gathered a collection of my favorite wild fighting fishes and also kept a few aquariums of other tropical fishes. I did this to make up the good old days that I missed so much to compensate for the years I spent abroad when such activities were not so viable. The recent learning on new hobby and joining the group on remote controlled aircraft flying is another fun and pleasurable time for me too.
All in all, 2010 was a fruitful year to me, with a lot of time to ponder upon life, good exercise routine and early bed time plus fairly active on facebook. Hope to go on with this life-style for another year or two and then start thinking of, perhaps doing something else, hopefully less mundane and more meaningful.
To all my friends, a happy and blessed new year of 2011!
