The Year That Was

I can safely say 2008 definitely had me taking leaps and jumps, achieving more things than I can imagine. From presenting at a plenary session at an international conference to the Merdeka Awards. It’s hard to imagine the boy who failed high school actually is achieving something!

I still hold on tight to the saying that success is not being good at what you do, but being significant and good in your passion.

January
- a very drunk New Year’s Eve
- met up with some bloggers I have never met before in Kuala Lumpur
- took a trip down to the mysterious town of Bau and did a video with Sam Poh and Ivan
- did a training about photojournalism and photo editing using photoshop

February
- finished my training and had a photoshoot with the entire crew
- made a crazy impromptu trip at 4.00am with some other crazy friends to take some photos of sunrise
- lots of meet ups and catch ups squeezed before I packed my bag and fly back to Aussie Land
- flew back to Adelaide and within 4 hours, found myself at the airport again to fly into Sydney
- attended the All Inspired Summit, meeting people like Cathy Freeman and Ben Darwin for the first time, and many CEOs and influential figures of major to small businesses across Australia

March
- accidentally deleted my blog but thanks to my webmaster Bryan who backed up most of my blog posts, most of them are saved except those happened in late Feb - early March
- don’t remember what happened in early March
- met up with uJun, another Adelaide blogger for the first time
- drove 5 hours to Mount Gambier and back on the same day

April
- went to Melbourne for 7 days for a holiday, first in a long long time
- met Wuching, Melbourne blogger, for the first time
- met Miss Australia 2003
- caught up with some Youth Ambassadors

May
- my second pubcrawl experience
- catch up with a few friends visiting from Sydney at different times

June
- Quiet month, exams period

July
- made a trip back to Malaysia
- did a portrait photography for Sandra
- made a very short trip to Kota Kinabalu (north Borneo) to island hop
- had heaps of fun back home

August
- attended the most birthday parties in one month
- was awarded the Australia-Malaysia Business Council Merdeka Award
- had a few press interviews
- conducted a research on young people’s take on mental health practice

September
- rushed through research report and presentation slides
- flew into Melbourne for a week
- presented at a plenary session at the 5th World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and the Prevention of Mental and Behavioural Disorders - my first taste of an international conference
- flew into Perth and had a good time
- took a 10 hours bus ride from Perth to Shark Bay (a world heritage site) and had the time of my life
- flew into Sydney from Perth
- celebrated my birthday in the Inspire’s office in Sydney

October
- organised a few mental health stalls
- attended a farewell party at the Governor’s place
- my third pubcrawl experience
- flew into Sydney for Reach Out’s Youth Ambassador’s Workshop

November
- the much dreaded final exams
- rushed through my assignments like an overworked ship
- finished uni!

December
- parents came a-visiting
- toured around Fleurieu Peninsula
- flew into Brisbane
- had a blast at Gold Coast
- met Dan for the first time

Hopefully 2009 will see me discovering more of my potentials or what I’m good at and turning them into something significant and seeing me achieving more!

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