where has the year gone?

i risk sounding like a broken tape recorder but where did all that time go? seriously. can you really believe we've come to the last month of the year?!? in fact we're more than half way through the last month of the year!

it's been one year since ended my 2 year masters. one year down till the end of my bond. one year to a legal change in status. before i know it, it will be 2017.

i am grateful for the bittersweet this year. the bitter has taught me to savour the moments of sweetness, and since i'm not a fan of overpowering sweetness, both literally and figuratively, i appreciate the tastes of bitter. the chinese saying 良药苦口 pretty much sums it up -- good medicine is bitter. i know that 2017 will pass in a flash, whether i like it or not. i'm not one that pens resolutions, but i do endeavour to make it good year. it will be a year of key milestones and memories, but whether the memories are bitter or sweet depends on my attitude towards it. the pessimist in me will say "expectation is the mother of disappointment", but the repressed optimist quips "hope is the mother of positive outcomes". i am hopeful for that 2017 will be a more fruitful and promising year, and i do hope that things will eventually pan out nicely.

"the end of the year is neither an end nor a beginning,

it is the carrying on of all the wisdom that experience has instilled in us"