"When I was young I set out to change the world.
When I grew older I perceived that this was too ambitious,
so I set out to change my state.
This too, I realized as I grew older, was too ambitious,
so I set out to change my town.
When I realized that I could not do even this, I tried to change my family.
Now, as an old man I know that I should have started by changing myself.
If I had started with myself, maybe then I would have succeeded
in changing my family, the town, or even the state-
and who knows, maybe the world."
(unknown)

December 26, 2009

Welcoming New Tiger Year...

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Wonderful Holiday! December is a month.. we feel like not going to work on the present or the ongoing (partly because of holidays), while our brain will be very frequently running with many thoughts about the past and uncertain plans about the future. Let's think about it.. 

It has been a more drastic yet mostly expected CHANGE this year (2009) to me, in terms of.. the surrounding, the seasonal weather, the new experiences, the culture (though some similarities), new friends, and myself, compare to last year (2008) was another change (of direction) I had to expect. Even the unexpected ones so far have already convinced me, as I don’t want to do the same thing over and over, while expecting different results. In general, it has been a better year here (especially new people), though the progress is a little delay as expected. Next year 2010 would be.. a Tiger year, huh~  I will have to plan ahead and set some new goals during the break before 1st of January. The year 2009 for me, the theme is a Year of Growth; next year, I say it’s a Year of Expansion.

Don’t know why, the unreasonably set theme every year has always worked on me accordingly. So again, what is it the Year of Expansion in 2010 I have no idea.. Okay, should work out this word ‘Expansion’ which it just popped out at me in a snowing night while I was feeling almost frozen walking outside.. Now, there has been one small difficult plan of mine that has not finished the way it should be for a couple of years due to a couple of reasons. Therefore would have to FOCUS a little bit on it! ..have got to make it happen~