Bye 2011.

2011 has come and gone. It has been a relatively uneventful year, especially when compared to topsy-turvy 2010 when things were in constant flux. Notable highlights were the Silverstone half marathon, the trips back to Singapore and to Barcelona and Scotland, and starting work at the new job.

In a sense, 2011 was built on much firmer foundations that had been built over the previous year -- a new job, new home, new licence, new lifestyle -- that I spent the year getting used to. Stability was supposed to be the reward of all that hard work, and I guess I did enjoy it for a while. But stability is like chewing gum: it's nice at first but then gets stale after a while. And one year is too long to spend chewing on the same piece.

Next year's focus will be on finding more pieces to chew. It's not going to be a pretty year by any forecast (especially the one by the Mayans), but as long as that one doesn't come true I should be fine.

Have a great 2012 everyone!

An update

Finally got the willpower to sit myself down and blog. Things have been winding down of late due to the Christmas season so I have a bit more time on my hands (would have had more if not for those pesky e-learning courses).

Anyway much has happened since the last post. I’ve completed the 8-week induction course (my group won the case study competition – yay), and started proper project work. Right now I’m learning the ropes in business analytics; the pay might be colouring my vision a bit but I really do find it very interesting. Data visualisation seems to fit my interests perfectly, being a cross of graphic design and statistics, and when done right has that “wow” factor that makes all that routine data cleaning and crunching worthwhile.

Looking forward to the Christmas holidays, which starts the day after tomorrow through to 2012. Want to do some drawing again!

Dream

Today I woke up with an inexplicable sadness, the only keepsake of a dream that had evaporated when my alarm went off.