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It’s now 3.10am. Can’t sleep. Must be the tea…..Gulped down 3 glasses of Chinese tea, 2 mugs of Green tea and 1 cup of Raspberry tea. It never had any effect on me for 20 over years and now….It had me typing on my notebook before 2 hours til dawn breaks…No more late tea drinking from now on.

Yeah, with 4 days til countdown for another new year 2007, how can we not think of the what we have or NOT achieve for the past 361 days. I was just telling my hubby the other day….at a blink of an eye, before we even smell the coffee, our little girl will be grown up. It just freaks me out, thinking about this!!

Let me see, what were the downs this year for me. Like my sis and Ryan said, lots of challenges. Well, that is certainly a good word for it if we don’t count "problems" in.

Well, I had many headaches in the begining of the year while serving an employer. Work my butt off but got nothing out of it. So, I moved on and do things my way. Lo and behold, fairy Godmother must have love me and bestowed me with bravery and guts. We made changes in how we want our lives to be. We take control of what we have and strive to make the best out of it. Ever since then, I guess, sun shines everyday. It’s all about knowing what we want and being grateful for everything that we have. Other than that, losing a baby was extremely painful.

Highlights will be plenty. Xue Rou goes to school, we run our own soho business, make new friends (especially Markus from Austria, thanks for your wonderful friendship), meet old friend who is in New Zealand, family outing with parents-in-law (that is a rare ocassion) etc…oh, yes, finally become a proud owner of a digital camera. I have been using an analogue camera which makes me look like ancient history. Had it since 1997. Actually it was my hubby’s but seems like I’m more of the owner than him. I utilized it to the max. Even the salesperson whom I bought the new digicam could not believe I had it for so long and still using it. Unbelievable how he could think this way!! Just because nobody used analogue camera, he thinks these type of cameras are useless. Maybe it’s not such a big deal to many of you, but to me, digital camera of my own is a luxury…You cannot imagine how much I yearned to own a good one. Saving every scrap and penny I have just to get one.

It has been an amazing year for me. I have grown wiser, get to understand myself better and spiritually contented. I would not want to say "I should have done this or do that or I should have done better". Maybe there was much more to learn and I have not. Then again, maybe it was meant to be this way.

So to the new year, I welcome with open arms. May it brings joy, good health, peace and prosperity to all. Happy New Year 2007!