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It’s New Year’s Eve and the mercury indicates 15 degrees Celsius. The past week has been dreadful with the rain and among other things, perhaps largely due to the approaching new year.

I’m not exactly sure whether I’m a candidate for Seasonal Affective Disorder but year ends do make me pensive and this year, is no different from prior years.

2009 has been a year of change. For the U.S., and certainly for me as well. I’m not usually a person to recap but since I’m at home instead of partying outside like the locals or squeezing with 7 million people just to see the fireworks display at TST, I might as well make the most of my time.

I can’t do 20 things that some of my friends have done during the year since my life has always veered towards boring so here’s only 10 to satisfy your curiosity:

1. I became a Certified Professional Risk Manager at my own cost and benefit.

2. I bought a spanking new one bedroom apartment at District 8 and finally got my keys.

3. Item 1 brought no comfort as the financial crisis saw me lose my job in Singapore because Singapore proved too expensive for the multinational companies.

4. Which as a result, got me posted to Hong Kong, an equally expensive place.

5. Convinced my 14 year old brother to work in KFC (it runs in the family!) to pay off his Xbox 360 and got convinced by Thiang and Ruok that I should sign up for Plurk since the bar was dead.

6. Went up North to visit a friend and climbed a mountain that was beside another mountain and adjoining the river.

7. Bought my first duck which is another story for another day and only if I eventually decide to blog about it.

8. Travelled back to Singapore almost every weekend in October, once in November and December, just to stock up on Magiclean wet wipes and chilli sauce (Nah, just kidding but I did head back to Singapore, obviously for other reasons).

9. Went up to Macau and tried my luck with the one arm bandit for fun. With technology, these machines are now touch-screen though.

10. Rejected someone and had a taste of my own medicine when I was rejected.

So there you have it. There were other stuff that I could add in but I felt that would be too brutally honest. For the sake of my friends and myself, I’ll keep it the way it is for now.

Happy New Year everyone!