..::070707 Blog - v2009::..

In a few hours, the year 2009 will come to a close and the world will embrace another new year.
As always, during this time, I will take stock and reflect on the year that was and celebrate all the wins from 2009.

For starters, blogging wise, this year, i.e. 2009 has been less than productive. In my mind, there are a lot of things I want to say & write in all the blogs that I've set-up, yet it never materialized the way I pictured it. Call it laziness or just lack of time, those are just excuses and justification that I make to myself.

Yet, in retrospect, I would have placed 2009 as one of the best learning & personal growth experience that I had in my life, and here, I will try my best to share this with everyone on this simple blog entry.

How do I do this? By answering these 5 elementary questions;

1. What was your biggest triumph in 2009?
This question is a tough one as I have quite a few. So, let me just list them down here as the biggest in no particular order;

• I moved to my own house in D'Rimba with my small family in March! Finally, a place to call my (our) own!
• I celebrated my 30th year of existence in this world with my loved ones
• I closed big sales account with BFM through mainly my own effort and contacts
• I am a Money & You and Creating Wealth Graduate! (see q2)
  
• I only job-hopped once in 2009! Hehe!!
  

2. What was the smartest decision you made in 2009?
To invest in myself and join the top 2% of the world population by joining the many Money & You graduates of the world. I sincerely believe that it was one of the best decision that I made ever to grow myself and I have experienced such great love, and got tremendous clarity & distinctions towards what I want to achieve with my life. The transformational journey has only just begun and I commit myself to applying all the principles of Money & You and Creating Wealth everyday! It was definitely PRECESSION at work. In fact, just by being in Money & You, my friends list on Facebook has grown to the 1000s!! :)

3. What one word best sums up and describes your 2009 experience?
TRANSFORMATIONAL!

4. What was the greatest lesson you learned in 2009?
To be truly successful in life, I need to take FULL RESPONSIBILITY.
FULL STOP. No more blaming, no more excuses, no more justification.

5. What was the most loving service you performed in 2009?
This is another tough one. Got a few as well. For my small family, Nia & Nadyne, I'm sponsoring 2 return tickets to the UK for them and we will all embark on a 9 days Easter family trip to the UK in April next year. WooooHoooo! Can't wait! And my wish to be able to celebrate Nadyne's 1st birthday at our own home was fulfilled in April this year too!

For the beloved pjfamily, I've shared whatever that I learned and got from Money & You and I'm proud to have both my elder sister (Kaklong) & brother (Acat) has joined the M&Y family! We had a fun family day outing just recently and it was a BLAST!

For the community, I've committed my time & effort as best as possible to participate fully and contribute my ideas and actions into the betterment of D'Rimba and grow within the M&Y circle.

For my work, I've sincerely act with integrity and believe have contributed to the growth of BFM89.9 and now will embark on another start-up journey with Leaderonomics and bring it to greater heights!

So, there you go!

Here's wishing everyone a great end to 2009 and GREATER START to 2010!!

It's been a while since my (or our) last post and a lot has been going on...

As I'm writing this, the world literally is mourning the passing of a true music legend, Michael Jackson, who was found dead on the 25th June 2009.
It was a total shocked and until today, I guess it still hasn't really sunk in yet.

Yes, this blog post is a bit late but I guess we're just doing our small part to pay tribute to the legend himself, who throughout his entire life, shared with us his genius ability to impart the message of love and humanity through his music.

Nia & I practically grew up to his music, danced to his moves on all the classic MTV videomusics and inspired by all his timeless songs.
Rest in Peace, Michael Jackson...


As it turns out, MJ's memorial was done today, on the same day as our 2nd year wedding anniversary.
How time really flies and we've gone through some ups and downs during those 2 years, as all other married couples do, I guess.
We're still learning about each other everyday and enjoying raising our lil bundle of joy, the ever full of life and hope, Nadyne!

We thank everyone, especially our family members who've been there for us through those 2 years, loving and supporting us all the way.
We pray that we'll continue loving each other and hope that one day, we'll also witness our own daugther's wedding one day. InsyaAllah..


July will always be a special month for us and this year, a bit more special to me because I just turned 30, 5 days ago..
We had a simple celebration and I totally enjoyed reaching this milestones. I wanted to write like a long post about my 30th birthday but we're all a bit engrossed with Michael Jackson's death that this will do for now.

Well, this is actually this blog's 30th post too! (a bit ashamed tho coz Nadyne's been writing more than me!!)

Anyway, as this month is all about celebrating life, if you're reading this, then go ahead and click on the banner below & get some goodies for yourself!



Dear MJ,
Thank You for the MUSIC and for all the LOVE you gave us..

Nia painting the room with E'ah's help in 2008!


The paint job continues.. Paints bought from Kansai Paints. Thanks Kak Ude!


Wood flooring by FloorDepot late December 2008!

Officiating the kitchen cabinets by frying karipap.
Cabinets & appliances by Rowenta Kitchen..

We're still waiting for some stuff to be installed such as our wardrobe and study table, but all in all, it was a fullfiling experience. Moving in is one thing, maintaining the house is also another challenge all in itself.

We hope our refinance issue would soon be completed as well.


Look at the house being filled with families & friends plus FOOD!


We are planning to have Nadyne's 1st birthday bash at the pool house soon. It'll be our first major event at our own place, sort of a 'house warming' for us and everyone will be invited. Will update on that soon.

The full pictures from the Tahlil housewarming can be found here.