It’s My 30th Birthday (the longest posting)

 

I have the intention to make this posting as the longest post with the most word 'long' in it. It will also take the longest time I ever take to complete a blog posting as my intention is to publish it here on my next birthday. I will also take the initiative to edit this posting properly, with longest time I ever take in editing a blog posting.

 

It will be the 30^th and I will be 30 years old by this 31^st July 2009. Can I consider it as entering the next threshold? Many people will start looking back at their life at this point. So at this point, I'm counting the mistake I made and the mistake I didn't make; the opportunities that I grabbed and the opportunities that I let go; the moments that I had and the moment that I wish I had; and ultimate question to ponder when entering 30 is 'am I feel worthy of myself at this age'.

 

Quoting Lincoln:

"It is easy to make a man miserable while he feels he is unworthy of himself and not good enough to claim kindred to the great God who made him."  

 

I have been put my golfing activity on K.I.V. for quite sometime as I have to prioritize my resource to more important thing. Lately, I don't spend enough time with my family due to high demanding job. It make me feel guilty to take away another day during weekend from them for golfing. I think it a fair trade. However, with more and more people in my office taking up golf and they start to make it monthly department activity called 'Golf Monthly Medal', I'm kind of left out. So I have to adjust few thing and hope for some changes in my routine life before I can take it up again and join my colleagues in golfing.

 

I have picked up a new hobby recently. It is 'Pencil drawing' focusing on portrait. Looking back at my hobby that I tried before, I think I can go far with this one. I've tried to learn to play guitar somewhere in 2005. However, without proper guidance couple with tone deaf, I abandoned that hobby and the used guitar that I bought few weeks after that. Recently, one of my colleagues bought that old guitar for her daughter.

 

I like to be a good writer, inspired by the Latin phrases 'Docendo disco, scribendo cogito: I learn by teaching, think by writing' and I always inspired by a good pieces wrote by bloggers. Good writing skills also can carry us far in career. But for some reason I didn't managed to put enough effort to be a good writer. Usually I ended up writing crab with limited vocabulary and lots of grammatical error.

 

I'm also interested in photography. In photography, I managed to snap some pictures that I consider great shot with Cybershot mobile phone (Sony Ericsson K800i). I don't like to carry a heavy bulky DSLR camera and all its accessories and don't have enough budget to allocate for getting it. And now I also not using that Cybershot phone that can take a considerable good picture. Now I limited my interest in photography to only admire other hardcore photographer's pictures.

 

With this pencil drawing, I found some passion in it. A few weeks ago, while surfing the internet, I found out about this pencil drawing. And by reading some guide and little on-line training, I managed to come out with some good piece of caricature. After a few trial, and some further reading on this matter, I decided to focus on drawing portrait. To date, I managed to draw my twin sons face that actually looked like them. Even my two years old sons can recognize their face in that drawing.

 

Financially, I'm still in the 'developing country' mode where I have to live with deficit in income versus expenses book. Approaching 30, I'm determined to improve the situation by giving a serious attention to get rid of bad debts and just maintain the property and car loans only. I have no choice but to be prepared for my kid's education. It's very important to be able to provide good education to them.

 

The resolution:

1. Quit Smokin'
2. Exercise at least 20 minutes per session, 3 times a week
3. More effort to be a good parent
4. Stop tambah hutang.
5. Smile more, laugh more…
6. Dah tua dah nih... kene belajar gi surau nih...
   

 

 

 

 

p/s: tak panjang pon, tak proper pon… sbb dok sibuk ngan problem kerja, combating issues at situation at work. It been a tough week. Sampai demam semalam. tak sempat nak edit pe dah. Publish je lah jugak.

Thank you for the friends who remember and care to wish.

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Don da Pantaier's