A Review of A Year & Another Year Resolutions(?)

Many people look forward to the new year
for a new start on old habits.

2008 has ended and the new year has begun. We always do our reviewing at the end of the year, when everyone reflects their achievement, the failure, the sadness and the happiness of the year. I think doing the review of the entire year is just another cliché but I still want to write about it. Resolution? Or should I write is as my target/objective just like a part of our thesis

What have I done in 2008?

My study

Achievement

It is already a year since I started to do my Phd using the route of coursework and dissertation. Not much progress and achievement but Alhamdulillah I finished my 24 credit hours without any problems even though I don’t know how many times I sighed. Sigh

Resolution

I have to finish my 8 credit hours of coursework without fail, take my 3 comprehensive exams and hopefully I pass it without any problems in any papers. (Comprehensive exam is a qualifying exam which is always a bottleneck to proceed for thesis writing). Hopefully, at the end of the year of 2009 I manage to finish my proposal.

My Self

Achievement

Not much progress too in myself except there were few Insaf things happened and new things that I learned. The main progress that I manage to achieve is that gaining weight. Never really bother about it before, as I always proudly said I can lose weight easily. It was until my brothers started overdose mocking about it. They were teasing me and sounded like beauty consultants asking to reduce few kilos and do a lot of exercises. Ayoo.. brother I’m not fat, just out of my ideal weight. (susah dapat abg yg over conscious about your appearance)

Another bad progress is that I’m addicted to Nescafe and the tarik which I think the main contributor to the weight gain. My Nescafe intake in a year during the day has doubled. At first the intake was just for me to stay up but now my morning started with Nescafe and without it I’m sleepy.

Resolution

I will buy exercise equipment – treadmill. I must admit I’m lack of exercises and really lazy to do it. Got fully support from my brothers to buy that equipment as we surveyed the price and the functions of treadmill in the shopping malls. I’m going to buy the one in Fitness Concept in Alamanda. We got an offer price for a quality treadmill. Anyhow, my fifth brother is really skeptical whether I will do my exercise with or without my fitness equipment. He bet that the longest that I will exercise using the treadmill is only a month.

Cut my Nescafe and teh tarik intake

My family

Happiness

We have a new member of the family when my brother got married on last May. So, I got another SIL and another member to join in our family vacation.

Sadness

My father got stroke attack in the middle of Ramadhan. My siblings took turn to look after him and taught him to do physiotherapy and once a while brought him to the beach as people said it is a good treatment for him. Alhamdullilah he started to walk again.

My 10 years old nephew (Syafiq) was diagnosed with bone cancer. A fragile boy (who always cry) was shocking me as he was strongly gone through and finished a set of chemo therapy ( 1 Set consists of 7 cycles and take about 5 months subjected to the patient’s health condition). I remembered the day when the shocking news broke to us, me and my sister took a flight to KB as he was transferred to HUSM. When the doctor want to explained about the cancer what should we anticipate, he bravely said that “ I don’t want to listen anything, just remove “thing” in my thigh so that I can go back to school” and he continued reading his favourite Harry Porter book without saying anything else or looking at the doctor. He didn’t cry but my brother ( Syafiq’s father) was emotionally cried. Besides chemo, he also went to the alternative cancer medication. Now, Alhamdulillah he is 70% recovered and has to go through another set of chemo theraphy.

Hope

Just pray for Allah that all my family members are in a good health. I know all of them are so strong going through the difficulties but I think should say Be Stronger, Boys!

We planned another vacation in thend of 2009. My brother proposed Taman Negara but I disagreed because I don’t think it is suitable for the children. We really hope that Adi ( my brother ) and his family members including Syafiq can join us too this year.

I welcome 1430 and 2009 with open heart and mind with the ultimate hope that I will become a better person in all aspects (sound a bit cliché again).