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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

11:47 PM

Reflections of 2007...

Hmmm... My reflections of 2007 as a whole... Kinda weird to combine my sem 4 & sem 5 together and give a conclusion... But I guess I shall just try to list down some of the major things that I went through in the year.

I shall try to write them out under the various categories, namely Studies/Work, Relationships, Economics, Spiritual, Health, Others.

Studies: Well, the 2 semesters I had experienced in 2007 are in 2 extremes. My Yr 2 sem 2 are very arts-based (New Media to be exact), while my Yr 3 sem 1 are very lab-based (programming).. I shall elaborate more on my Yr 3 sem 1 here... (read up on archive for my
sem 4) Hmmmm... As my results have shown, it was quite apparent that I didn't manage my studies well for this semester. One of the main reasons was that I honestly had the thinking that 'Grades no longer matters to me as much as before'. Perhaps I enjoy learning in general, but not learning something for the sake of exams & tests. For e.g. for my Bahasa Indonesian language module, I had alot of fun learning the new language every week, but when it comes to tests, somehow I didn't do as well... Least to say for my other hard programming modules...
Most importantly, I really wanna thank God for giving me a second chance with my results, (allowing my S/U options to come into rescue for my CAP) despite me making a mess out of it.

Relationship: This year, I would say 2 major things that happened in terms of relationship are my family as well as spiritual family. For my family, both my niece & nephew are growing healthily as the days go, and me learning more on how to be a caring uncle towards them. And I thank God for that, in a way, I was being 'trained' to be prepared to take care of people. For my spiritual family, particularly my caregroup, NUSC3, I have grown with my relationship with everyone, and also the desire to grow in love for them along the way.
As for the breakthroughs, I took the challenge to become a shepherd! Though I still have a long way to learn how to be a good one, but I believe God is helping me... =)
Perhaps one thing to thank God for this year was getting to know Junyao as a dear brother, someone whom I can really share things to and who always keep a lookout on me, making sure that I am doing ok... (though I still took him for granted sometimes.. =p )
And of course, I have my new shepherd Ellson, who is also a brother who knows me well & always tries to avail himself for me despite his busy schedule at work... (Thanks bro!)

Economics: This in short just means my financial area for this year. I don't have much to say for this area, particularly because I still have not seriously consider about financial management. I did attempted to do a record of my spendings, but the habit didn't last long.. (Sorry, i haven't grow my conviction on this yet.)

Spiritual: I would say I have grown much this year in my spiritual way with God, more in the area of knowledge & understanding of God's truth, perhaps the only thing that I had wished i can do more is converting more of my 'head knowledge' into 'heart conviction', that lead into practical application. And a particular area I learn in was being an artist for God, the issues I face.. based on the book "Heart of the Artist", which really caused me to reflect on myself in the Creative Arts Ministry...

Health: Hmmm, my physical condition was pretty 'exciting' this year. Well, 1st there was dengue fever, and the rest was history... All these experience did remind me of how important our physical body are, cos without them functioning well, we can't do things as per normal... So, being rather unhealthy after all the illnesses, I missed all my workouts and of course, the full marathon... Went through another long period of sickness during the Xmas season, while preparing for the Xmas production. It was the 1st time I totally lost my voice! And it was so miserable, I can't describe how sad I am for not being able to sing... But thank God the voice came back & I managed to perform in the end. (though the cough dragged quite long until I actually missed caroling this year...)

Others: One thing that I wish to highlight as one of my skill developments was music composition! I truly thank God for the creative mind that He has given me, allow the tune to come into my head and compose it out! Though I can't say that the pieces are very good, but I like them very much personally, mainly because I know it's a new talent that God has blessed me with! And I am excited about the future music I will be able to compose! Yey... =p

Yup, that sums it all for my 2007...

As for my new year resolutions... shall write it in another later post... =p

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