2011

No I will not say that 2012 is getting closer and besides, it is the end of 2012 that we have to be worried about, so we have another almost 2 whole years. But in a way, I look back at 2010 and look forward to 2011 and have a sense of almost bewilderment. My kid will be 2 this year... my god!!! has it been that long? This year, we will give her a cake and candles to blow out, not because we feel a need to do so, but I feel that we should celebrate 2 years of her life. She is now a really cute young lady. I will post some pics and vids as and when time avails.

I spent 3 weeks in Japan and it was such an experience. Being with your family is a nice thing to do. I do not understand how or why some people will want to find love outside of their families because it is all there for you. My kid was kinda strange with me on the first day. Maybe because she was used to being with her mom alone in Osaka, but by the second day, she was as happy as a monkey drinking rum and happily playing with old daddy. I do mean that I am an old daddy because if I need to run after her, I will usually ask my wife to do the running.

But she has grown so much through the year. In Dec 2009, she could barely crawl and was able to respond to stimulus, but not in any intelligent manner. Now she is running around and she is showing her ability to understand things both said and unsaid. And she is damned smart, when she knows that she has done wrong and I am pissed off, she will run to her mom, but then she gets it from the mom because as parents, we agree only to be together on all decisions. We do not disagree on anything, especially on how our child should be brought up. This is actually good because we have actually seen how one party tries to be the nice guy or is the nice guy while the other is the stricter one or worse if both are strict or nice. We try to align ourselves to her behaviour and ensure that across the board, she does not do anything wrong and or bad.

How this new year will unfold for us? I really have no idea. For me, I am not afraid of the future as it is still unkown and also undecided. It can be anything I want it to be. It can be as good as I want it to be, or it can be as bad as I want it to be. Even for a bad situation, it can be good if I look at it in a postive way or it can be the worse thing that has ever happened.

Well, good luck to everyone and I wish all a Happy 2011