2011: Year in Review

Travelling:
I think I had enough of travelling. I have been to the fashionable Paris, the exotic Istanbul and the really modern Dubai, all of them twice in 2011. Not to mention to the red-dotted Singapore for the umpteen times. Within Malaysia, going to destinations like Kota Kinabalu, Miri, Bintulu, Kertih, JB and Penang were like my monthly routines. I think, I had easily clocked almost 100,000 km of air mileage, for this year alone.

Career:
How could I move up, across the corporate ladder if there are still people who are more senior than me, but seems oddly immovable? Darn. On top of that, I felt that the compensations, do not really commensurate with what I had contributed. It has been almost six years, I’m working in the current company, which seems to be longer than any of my previous jobs. Tak mengapalah, rezeki saya masih di sini. Syukur Alhamdulillah.

Family:
As always, I try to be accommodative to my loved ones. Provide the necessaries and necessities. Pampered them with the little extras that I had.

Love:
In married life, and love in general, obviously there’re ups and downs. 2011 was mostly ups :)

My regrets:
By right, I shouldn’t have any regrets as kesemuanya sudah menjadi ketentuan Allah. Having said that, I was upset with the seemingly deteriorating condition of my mother’s dementia as well as my son’s failure to get all A’s in his PMR. I will do my best to assist my dear mother, and gave some serious ultimatum to my son for his own good.

My achievements:
Not really achievements, but more like something I do almost every day for living. Firstly, I successfully organized an event in KK, with minimum effort but maximum results. Secondly, with the grace of Almighty Allah, I was able to get two Russians and one Tatarstanian and had a good meeting with them in Istanbul on business matters with regard to Turkmenistan. As I said, I do these things everyday, those are but examples.

On cricket:
My batting sucks. My bowling quite reasonable. My Pakistan cricket team was doing well, and that matters.

The conditions of my iman:
How I wish that I could constantly be in remembrance of Almighty Allah. Many a times, I have committed sins, and I seek forgiveness from Him.

For 2012:
Maybe less travelling, more devotion in ibadah to Almighty Allah, less sins, more charity, more menimba ilmu, less doing the unworthy, more on the good things, less on the good-for-nothing.