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Reflection year 2022



It's a bit late as we have turned the new page of 2023, but it's better late than never.

I just want to write what we have done in year 2022.

In the beginning, we were not sure how it will end and even there were unexpected things happen in our marriage relationship, family, career and even the world.


For 2 years we have been staying under Covid's shadows. No traveling, work from home, stay at home, lots of restrictions, face masks every where. However in the middle of year 2022, we were slowly seeing the lights at the end of tunnels.

There are many things that I am grateful for, here's top 5 that strike my mind

1. Good health

Eventhough we got covid in the end of February, we survived and became stronger. Our family and extended family survived the wave of Covid-19.

2. Career promotion and increment

I never expected that I had the courage to move to other department which is more challenging and rewarding in the same time and finally I got the increment after working for 2 years. I had privileges to travel more to Indonesia for business trip, meet new clients, make new friends, explore different business models.

3. Travel to see the world

Since the travel has opened, we were finally able to see the world starting from neighbouring countries.

1 April was my first traveling overseas after being grounded and the destination was Bali with my company, I can breath the freedom. After that, we went to Malaysia (JB, KL, Genting, Cameron Highlands, Ipoh, Melaka, Desaru), Indonesia (Jakarta and Batam), Thailand (Phuket). We are looking forward to more traveling in year 2023.

4. New Helper

Something that I am very grateful and treasure it is having a good housekeeper. She started working for us on 1st October 2022, she's very amazing. I could trust her with all the household chores and even I had a peace of mind when I traveled for almost a month in December.

The house is sparkling clean, I don't need to worry about home. She's the best gift I ever received from God.

5. Hubby found his passion

Who could expect that finally hubby found his passion to be a tutor. He has a gift to make things simpler and easy to understand and he has been given an opportunity to teach primary students and experience joy in teaching the pupils.

6. The kids received award

Our 2nd and youngest sons received award in semester 1 and 2. We were so proud of them. Their hard works were paid off.

And even though we are good in the year 2022, there were many setbacks along the way

1. Our marriage relationship has been challenged

We fought a lot this year over trivial and big matters. Fidelity, jealousy, ego and pride are the sources of our fight

2. Career challenges

There were some differences with company management in terms of point of view, directions etc. Thanks God we were able to have the mutual decision and both were happy.

3. Teenager challenge

Our first son is a teenager with more emotions, puberty, hormonal changes etc. Sometimes it seems that we didn't know him anymore. But I guess it's part of growing up. We just need to embrace the changes, accept him and walk together with him to understand his thoughts and emotions.

Yeahh, even tough we ends 2022 with another fight but we survived.



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