Wrapping-up Year 2007.

Hi guys, it may be a bit too soon for me to write about the end of the year now, I know. But I really thought of doing this early. So unfortunately I will still go on with the idea and so this post will contain nothing much really - other than a concluding view of my Year 2007 - and I'm sorry about that.

As I was typing this down, I managed to take a quick look at the 2007 calendar that I have right in front of me on my table now. The table calendar was posted to me by the Town Council in what seemed to me like a long time ago. On the calendar though, I found out that today is December 4th 2007. And as I glanced to the last day of the month, I noticed that there is still a bit more of time that we all have before 'that day' arrives.

Well, 'that day' is not like some big days to me. 'that day' is just 31st of December, a day that will come and go just like any other ordinary days. And I have been through many 31st December in my life. But it is just that this time it is the anticipation of a brand new year that makes me yearn for 'that day'.

As I counted the boxes of days on the calendar, I found out that there will be 27 more days before we will all bid farewell to year 2007 and say hello to year 2008. Like I have said, I have been looking forward to this - the emerging of a new year and turning history of this year - but honestly I am scared to see and think what’s in store for me in year 2008 or the year after, for that matter.

Year 2007 for me has been quite all right all through though to some extent it felt like it was whirlwind to me. Maybe it was not really (whirlwind), maybe I was just exaggerating here a little bit. But at a glance, it really seems like it. And I certainly feel like I have been traumatized by many events that took place along the way in year 2007.

In just this year, many people I once knew have died. Within just five months into year 2007, I kept receiving news of dead/dying relatives and acquaintance in Singapore. Both young and old, sick and healthy, these individuals just die. Some died out of sickness, whilst others died out of mishaps like accidents. It was freaky no doubt. And for a while I wondered why lives seem so vulnerable and continuously at stake when safety and refuge have always been the top priority in modern Singapore.

But I knew all these are inevitable. Birth and death are fate and no one can run away from fate. Then again I cannot deny the insecurity and fear I felt. I was fearful of losing anyone else I know after the traumatizing first five months. And I was scared too of making plans for my own future as some of those who have died, as I said, are young and healthy people.

But I know there will be more of such news as I age. So I am just taking those sad news as the initial stages of my life as an adult. But certainly I am glad that news of dead/dying relatives or acquaintance have stopped for a while for now. So at least my year 2007 can come to a rather peaceful end as compared to how it started. Or so I hope.

Well, year 2007 wasn't all about sad stories for me though. On a happy note however, my year 2007 was spent mostly in my native soil, the island city of Singapore, and so I am just glad for that.

On another happy note however, Kenji and I successfully did a couple of regional trips, most of which were places we had never been to. So we kicked the year's trips off with a 10-day stay in Japan in January and ended it with another 10-day journey but in Bali in the month of October. And in between those two, we checked out the island of Bintan on 2 separate short stays. So all was good and we enjoyed our trips very much. Certainly hoping for more to come in the near future though.

Alrighty, I guess I have now come to the end of the post and so I think it's time I share with you my end-of-year prayers. So here goes: firstly, I would like to thank God for giving me a good 2007. Despite the "whirlwind", which was a series of bad things that probably ever happened to me, I am thankful that it has its limit and that everything was manageable on my part.

For year 2008 though, I pray that God would be so kind as to give Kenji and me good health, lots of wealth, plenty of happiness, and long, long longevity to all whom we love, including ourselves! And to all of you reading this, have a happy new year! May your 2008 be filled with great stuff and wonderful people always, take care!