I love my current unit, however it does feel a little bit cramped with stuffs. Few things on why this on why this is the case:

• I don’t have time to organize
• I am not a good organizer
• We simply own too much stuffs

However I really love tidiness and the current untidiness does actually cause some stress to me (and Lina as well). So one of my goals this year is to make our nest more organized and less cluttered.

Few things that will help achieving that goal:

• Throw away junks – things that hold sentimental value but not really useful anymore
• Give away things that might be of some use to others but not to us (example: old clothings, some piece of furnitures)
• I am thinking of getting some shelves.
• Need to stop accumulating junks, buying stuffs that I don’t really need.

The kids corner

This is the corner where we put the kids’ toys (well mostly Jet’s at the moment). We put the toys in several boxes. We also have an aquarium that function as a storage box now.

I did some tidy up on this corner, since we have a few visitors coming, it looks a little better but there’s still a lot more room for improvement.

 

The book shelf

I think I need another one or two book shelves. And then re-organize the things again.

The shoes rack

The bottom tier is actually broken as sometimes we put heavy stuffs on top of this rack. Also this 2 tiers rack is no longer enough to hold our footwear. Not to mention Matthew would also have his own footwear too later on.

Others

My study room (soon to be Matthew’s room as well) is also quite messy, but I have no pictures to show it.

I am one of those people who don’t really see the significance or appreciate certain dates. So new year day is just another day for me. But I think I can understand that it’s a good thing to be able to mark a day for a fresh start and reflection and new year day is a good candidate for it (it could’ve been any other day of the year, also it doesn’t have to be in yearly interval).

Anyway, enough rambling, year 2008 is now behind, reflecting on what has happened last year:

• Finally graduated from my master degree – what a huge relief!
• Graduated from PTC (unexpectedly)
• Moving to another company (yet again!)
• Managed to finished reading at least 17 books.
• Welcoming Matthew to the clan.
• Credit crunch, financial crisis made me significantly poorer, but in comparison with lots of people in the world, I am still very2 blessed, I still can afford more than basic necessities of life.

I wonder how will 2009 look like for us.  I haven’t really thinking of setting goals etc2, so far I only have a rough idea what I want to do in terms of family, ministry and work. I am not sure I am game enough to publish them online after all I don’t want to be apologizing to myself by the end of the year for not accomplishing them.