Hello 2010, scary start eh?

It's 2010. Great.

I am now...

...technically old enough to buy cigarettes and alcohol, but NOT old enough to vote. I'm turning 20 this year, gee. Bye-bye to my '10s' era, hello to my early twenties. 2.5 more years to graduation, if I don't slip up. 1 more month till I leave Damansara for approximately 14 weeks in Miri, to continue my studies.

Do I miss 2009?

Absolutely not. It's the year I believe I suffered the most, mostly due to financial and personal problems. Those problems affected my studies quite badly; hopefully 2010 won't be that evil. I must return to my 'eternal honor roll student' days. I'm not sure how, but I have to. 2009 is probably an 'obstacle year' for gaining experience and becoming wiser, though I'm still not sure how that experience is going to help me. God's ways are mysterious. Maybe I won't know yet now, maybe I'll only find out some time in the future.

December is probably the only thing I miss about 2009. Been meeting up with my old friends from my Foundation days; basically, I feel as if all the problems I suffered in the first 11 months of 2009 were balanced by the amount of fun I had in December. You COULD say that I suffered from too much fun last month, hahah. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel for 2009, finally.

The start of 2010 is a bit weird for me. Recently, I went to the doctor because of some mysterious bleeding in my eye. I was told to monitor my health for the next few weeks (not again!), and hopefully it will improve. Besides that health scare issue, this was how I ushered in the New Year: saw 1Utama's fireworks from my living room, heard the fireworks from The Curve@Mutiara Damansara, but watched the countdown at Dataran Merdeka live on TV.

What else is weird about 2010? Don't let me get started on that Allah/church-bombing issue. There are some (unfortunately) evil opportunists out there, trying to fan some flames. As I mentioned on my Facebook profile recently...I left the Middle East because of the bombings, to return to what I thought was a safer Malaysia. Turns out I was wrong. Fellow Malaysians, this is a time of great testing. No matter what religion/race/gender/etc. you are, we HAVE to be strong. [Spent part of my life in the Middle East. And no, don't get me wrong, this does NOT mean that bombings occur in every part of it.]

Happy New Year everyone, logging off for now.