Review of my 2013

The following is a point form of my successes in 2013. After listing them out, I managed to categorize them to spiritual, Physical, Intellectual

• Spiritual
  • Finished reading conversations with God volume 1, 2 and 3 – Despite understanding that it is based on the author’s perception of god, it god me to realize everyone has their own perception, we can only see through our perception, and thus we interpret god as we see, through our limited perception. Pondering on the truth of our knowledge of God.
  • Explored Pantheism – the notion that god is everything, and the universe is defined as everything in existence, therefore god is the universe. ended up realizing that god is greater/bigger then the universe, because according to science, the universe may decay, or freeze.
  • Deeper understanding and appreciation of god and the universe, noting that we probably can and will only see at best 1% of the universe. the universe has expanded in a way that light coming from other stars will never reach us. 
  • Watched The movie of Life of Pi – choosing a story of a universe with a God or one that has none.
  • re-examining the things that were taught in religious school or by our tradition or culture.
  • Understood that the meaning of Allah is literally “The God” from the phrase “la ilaha illa allah”. which means “there is no other god than The God“
  • Installed iQuran on my iPad, occassionally reading through translation(s).
• Physical
  • Completed the 5.4km Open swim from Labuan to Pulau Papan and back. without getting sea sick!!!… much… thanks apple xin for the distraction during the swim.
  • Picked up cycling again and went for and completed Individual Triathlon (inspired due to 2012 MnY mastermind)
    • ABDB Triathlon, thanks to fadilah for reminding me.
    • Panaga Triathlon, 
    • Serawak Triathlon in Miri, (due to weather, swim leg replaced by run instead)
  • Ran barefoot for most of the runs that I did (except for SME run)
    • National Day Run in Temburong.
    • SCB Run – helped train my sister for the 5km run.
    • Pusat Ehsan’s The Run
    • Business School Charity Run (to be honest I crashed it, I didn’t manage to register and get the shirt)
    • Signed up for His Majesty’s run, but did not run due to scheduling, I went to AYPVC cambodia
    • Did not run BIBD run due to scheduling. had leadership camp at the same time.
• Self Development – Intellectually, Mentally, Financially, and Creatively
  • Moved house.
    • closer to work place, feel more independent, more customization due to wife’s feng shui interest.
  • Bought a Guitar, finally bought a replacement for my broken guitar by my nephew a year ago. Gonna learn to play contemperorary songs with the guitar again 🙂
  • Attended the Millionaire Mind Intensive Seminar,
    • got reinspired to get passive business income and attain financial freedom.
    • Understood who I was in respect to money and vice versa  (I’m a saver)
    • learned the 6 jars money management (I’m going to enjoy the play jar)
  • Helped create mastermind from the graduates of the seminar.
• Career and Professional Development
  • Toastmasters
    • Got my Advance Communicator Bronze
    • Appointed as Vice President of Education
  • LiveWIRE
    • Organized SME run for the LiveWIRE Brunei SME Promotion.
      • from the marketing, registration,shirts, refreshments, and volunteer management.
    • Organized LiveWIRE Brunei Business Awards
      • from judging process to prize presentation ceremony.
      • some problems, some were overcome, others will be handled for next time.
  • Being involved with ASEAN Young Professional Volunteer Corps (AYPVC.
    • Delegate to Cambodia in the agriculture,
      • Made/met new friends from ASEAN community
      • Learnt about agricultural practices, 
      • helped locals solve their own issues,
      • inspired to see and help the rest of the world.
    • Committee for AYPVC Seminar in Brunei.
      • helped organize and welcomed most delegates at the airport.
      • Became tour guide for delegates.
      • Made new friends
      • learnt about Volunteer Organization Management.
      • more ice breaking games.
    • involved in the national youth day parade/line up representing AYPVC.
• Others
  • Won an iPad – from a scratch card at shopping.com.bn, I am now an iOS convert… nah! more like iOS/android hybrid :p actually lost a waterproof camera in cambodia, but the universe replaced it with an iPad.
  • Supported my sister in attending landmark, she admits that it has helped here with coping with life issues a lot better 🙂 yay… she doesn’t need much consulting and consoling anymore 😀

Typing this up kinda reminds me of making a CV. 2013 just gave a worth one page of CV. I should add picture to this post, or links to facebook or other resources, but i’m not gonna bother. simplicity is key. next up is my aims for the year 2014, that one i’m gonna add pictures.