1 year, 100 posts, 10,000 experiences

In retrospect, I'm glad I started this journal. Looking over the previous 99 posts, I have the same feeling I havhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gife when review the notebook from my first China trip where I can re-read inane and insightful observations long since forgotten. I'm not a diary person; business organiser maybe, but personal diary no. Yet it is often suggested by diverse pundits from personal effectiveness, personal growth and even happiness experts that even just a one line note about your day made before going to bed is a valuable, long-term habit.

I digress though as this journal is not that much about me and a lot more about the people around me. I've learned a lot in the last year; there are certainly more known-knowns, but there are also more known-unknowns so there is plenty of adventure ahead.

It is appropriate at this time of year to reflect and I thought I'd pick out a few notable, even favourite posts from 2007:

• Pasar Patois
• Nancy, New-York, November
• Moan, Moan, Moan
  
• Driving
  
• Kiasu or what Lah
• Singapore is Middle Earth
• MerLionKing
  
• Die-Hard in Singapore
• Hokkien is Chinese for Yiddish
• God's Birthday

Here's to the next 100. Happy Holidays.