2009 Highlights

• March 10th: My grandpa passed away.
• May 27th: We celebrated my two cousin’s first birthday on the same day (A week separates their actual birthdates).
• July 22th: The day my relatives and I traveled. I had a great time, indeed.
• August 25th: Finished reading the Harry Potter series.
• October 28th: First time publishing an article (Muscat Daily).
• November 16th: Second published article (Oman Observer)
• December 7-9: Took part in the 1st Muscat Youth Summit.
• December 24th: My second cousin passed away.

To me, this year was filled with happiness, joy, sadness, grief, success and failure. The above were the main highlights of the year. Also, it was about reading, reading and then again, reading. I’ve read lots of books that I stopped counting. Books that are on top of my head that I enjoyed reading the most are,

• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hoessini
• The Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling
• Thirst by Christopher Pike
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hoessini
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Torn Apart by James Patterson
  

Thanks to those who believed in me, and most importantly, myself, I was able to break my meaningless habit of procrastinating (not fully, of course) and to that, I’m grateful. I got to achieve most of my last year’s resolutions, and some of which I’d work hard on achieving.

One thing I learned this year, ‘As long as you put your heart and mind into what you believe in, you’ll eventually reach there’

With the spirit of a new year, I, for the first time, chose a new layout with colours instead of the same old, same old black/grey. Sometimes, even I could go with the flow, and decide to adjust with the 'change'. [I still got to work on it, though]

May God accept all your good deeds, and happy new near.