It was a hectic 2007, but I still managed to find some time off to travel with Jingyi to Hong Kong. Its our first furthest overseas trip so far, and I got to say, WE ENJOYED IT! For New Years Eve, I was busy with countdown and when the clock strike 12, it was 2008, celebrating with my colleagues.

January and February was not too bad, and I was planning to take 1 week leave to accompany Ethan to school. But an unprecedented incident and screw up my schedules, and since then, it has been work, work and non stop work. I got to say from February to August, I’ve never stopped working late. Most of my time was spent in office. But being busy is good, cause it means that your bosses believes in you, giving you assignment, so at least, I felt I was useful to the organization. But being so busy has taken a serious toll on my health (I shall elaborate more when in my next post when I talk about myself).

It has been a year of surprises, ups and down. In late April, I’ve gotten the news of possible promotion, but when the time came, it was a total disappointment. But nevertheless, its history, and it was time to move on. I’m thinking, there’s probablly a next time, so just wait. If it comes, it will come. But if it doesn’t, its just pointless to keep thinking about it. Due to an addition of a new colleague, there were some reshufflement in my unit. But I’m glad I was still able to do things that I like and still had the chance to face new challenges at work.

Thanks to the bosses who believes in me, I’ve also gotten a chance to go back to school to study. 8 months on, there are times when I thought of giving up (its just too difficult to juggle between work, studies and families). But whenever I thought how lucky I was, it just keeps me moving. So how lucky I was? I got to understand that some people had applied more than once for sponsorship studies, but for me, it was my first attempt and I got it!  

Since late November, I’ve started to takes thing slowly but sometimes, I’m just not too used to it. Like what Jingyi said, I’m simply a workaholic!

So what’s installed for me for 2009? For now, I know that I’ll be kept busy for the first 2 months and the later half of the year. I’ll also start counting down to the completion of my studies.

And for 2008, I want to thank my dearest wife, who has been behind me, quietly supporting me and giving me encouragement. Like the Chinese saying, “每个成功男人的背后，都有一个女人”. Whenever I’m down at work, she is the one who encouraged me. Whenever I’m happy, she’ll always be the first to know the good news. Whenever I’m sleeping in office, she is the one staying at home looking after the kid.