With every Christmas, it signifies the dawning of the year we just spent. It is perhaps a good time to reflect, to give some thoughts about how the year was spent, and how we can make the next an even better one.

2023 wasn’t an easy year. It was really challenging and with that it was my year of growth. However, I fall short on quite a few expectations I have had on myself this year, and those are things I want and have to do better now.

This is a year to be grateful for. Firstly, I am grateful for my health. I had to try really hard to get my daily swim in. Some days the body is so tired, just the thought of going for a swim is already a burden! But I am grateful that I can still manage to clock those laps that I did.

I am grateful for my wife. She have taught me a lot this year. For all our shared experiences, all our time spent together, I couldn’t be more grateful to have you with me. Thank you! and I look forward to many more wonderful times together.

I am grateful to my family. Not just the family I was born into, but also the family my wife was born into. They are an anchor to my heart. I wish for each of them to do well, in fact to do better in their health & vitality for the years ahead.

I am grateful for our friends. They say that we can’t choose our family, but we can choose our friends. They are the people whom truly shape our lives. I look forward to a me who is intellectually and emotionally more mature, so that I can be a better friend to those around me.

I am grateful for all the opportunities and experiences that was bestowed on me. Every interaction is a lesson, and there are so much things to learn. I am grateful to be able to keep discovering all the things I didn’t knew I don’t know about. Knowing what you don’t know is a constant discovery.

2024, I yearn to be a better person. To be a more loving and caring husband, to spent more time with my wife, to love her more the way she like to be loved for. To be a better son & son-in-law, to care for them, and to spend time with them while we still can. To be a better brother. To be a better friend.

To another most exciting, fulfilling and productive 12 months ahead.