The end of the year is here, and I do not feel a thing. No urge to set resolutions for 2009, no nostalgia for the year almost past. Maybe it's age, the all round convenient explanation for every and any thing.

Or maybe it's because I don't see the passing of years as milestones. They are not measured in periods of 12 months starting 1 January, ending 31 December. To me, the recent years of 2007 and 2008 seem to merged into one. As the period when I decided to leave China to come home, and instead moved to Macau for about a year, and then decided to come home again, bringing me to where I am now. These are more meaningful than a pre-determined turning point that means nothing to me.

But perhaps it is because milestones in our youth were measured with the passage of time that I found it very important back then. It was when we moved from one grade to another, went to new schools/classes perhaps, looking forward to being one year older. So again, it boils down to age.

Anyhow, I didn't set out to write about this. I wanted to write about my old China blog. I went there on a whim and discovered that the posts cannot be viewed, navigation does not work. The company must have changed something that did not include updating my very old un-updated blog. Good thing that I had already saved all my posts.

Still, I don't know why I am leaving the defunct blog there instead of just deleting it when it clearly doesn't work. Perhaps, I will get down to it one day. Just not now. Some day, I'll do it when I feel like it. My own time, no rush to do it because new year is coming and it's time for clearing out the old.

Happy New Year! :)