blog revival and update to my life

Surprise, surprise and surprise... I had realised it has been quite a few years since I've updated my blog and to my amazement, after attempting to retrieve the account information for more than 30 minutes, the contents are still alive Guess this will have to be a new blog post to update my life, and a new year resolution! Looking back at my last few posts, I realised that at some point in time, I'm quite childish in my thinking, and some of the changes I wanted to made is my life apparently have not changed. So, the first update would be leaving my job back in start of 2010. After finding a job for 2-3 months, I have landed in an insurer firm and have permanently left research/clinical work field; and begin my university studies majoring in banking/finance as well. At some point in time in year 2010, it became too much to cope with so many things and I slowly drifted off tuitioning work as well. I am truely grateful for the students that I have interact with, those that we had work hard together from failing to passing the papers, and those well-behaved students who studied diligently without much nudging from me. And sorry to the students who treat tuition as obligation, resulting in decreasing in results. In one way, I'm glad that I have left this profession;being a teacher, motivating students to study is important and I simply do not have the aptitude towards motivation, perhaps it's not my calling after all. But simply grateful that I have met students who can strive with minimal efforts and whom I can get along well with. Perhaps if I were to tuition again, it will not be motivated by monetary but by passion. Back to new job in insurer, perhaps luck/opportunity/hardwork pays off, I have promoted to executive/management and subsequently transfer to risk assessment within 2 years. but job has been stagnant since, which made my wonder if it is indeed time to look for opportunities elsewhere. well, maybe will elaborate that in my future post again; but it is mainly to be with my weakness which my ex-boss has pointed out last time : tactless and being too nice/honest. In year 2010 as well, I have met a guy which I'm still in a relationship with, 4 years and counting, wow :) Another thing to update is that I have become less religious; at some point in my life, it simply became too much to bear. When liaising with my colleagues and friends, I realised that I have attempted/achieve alot of things which others do not have, and some are: 1. self-supporting (except housing) since 16 years old 2. Paying off poly/uni fees without any bank loan 3. working and studies and achieving both well (studies is average, but at least 100% pass in all tries and obtaining honors - but this studies basically is useless as my boss as said "your salary already exceed fresh grad, what you study is not revelant anyway", so 0% increment...boo - but will try for me still on possible increment) 4. worked as reporter/journalist (passion) 5. published scientific papers 6. despite the expenses on studies (easily 30-40k), still managed to have savings 7. investment in gold and stocks 8. attempting to learn piano and other small insignificant matters As part of new year resolution for this year, the top 3 are: 1. Losing weight (maybe a hopeful 7-9kg this year) 2. Starting passive income/sideline and switch in main income 3. To stop being door mat and be tactful in work and personal life