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We had passed the 2008 for about nine days. Okay, this post due long ago, but better late than never. We already have 2009, in the new day.

Let me use this post to record what is happened to me, in life, in work, and something in between. I hope this as useful to me, to look after a year after year.

In regard to work at 2008, I have worked and produced as much as I got in 2007. Quite surprising! This is wonderful, for sure. This makes me believe that the path that I take is at the right track, and I confidence to continue with it.

But last year is will be remembered as the toughest period of my life. As everyone has been, with all the downturn of global market, I wonder how much you lost on the stock market. Above, I have faced a strong path of my age, tough decision and tough relationship turnover with some friends. That said. I will try to explain more, but I can’t. Unethical matter. But I can say a short story.

Last year was also a time for something important happened. Something, that I absolutely knew, would changed my whole perspective about everything, especially those related to partnership, friendship, and entrepreneurship. Short said, I was above highly trust in someone, a senior of me, we discussed, talked everything. But at the end, he ended up backstabbed me. To say short. Never put all of these friendship, partnership, and entrepreneurship in a bucket to work! Never! Ever! It’s better to make a partnership with someone strange to you (nor not that close or had any connection in whatsoever, not a school friend, not family relatives, not in religion affairs), but the most important in all of these things before starting a partnership, I think you would better had a good instinct (or intuituion) of the person. If you don’t believe or had a bad instinct, trust them. I leave my intuition back of at 2005 and I got a disaster at 2008. Netter yet, life is always learned.

Well, I had others 2008 outlook including some book I have bought and read in that year, and I think it would be great if I shared here because I felt that the book are really important and changed the way I live. But put that in another post.

I was turned about 30 this year. That is felt, what, surprising! Yes. It is the test of time, as you know. You became to know something difficult (or you may say serious) to be happened.

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If you have followed the latest Macworld 2009 Expo, you must knew the new things announced there are including iLife ’09, iWork ’09 and new 17” MacBook Pro that has 8 hours battery life. But we are here about the software, not the hardware.

But we are not talking about that. Here I just got a good review of User Interface changes found Cocoia Blog, iWork / iLife ’09 UI Roundup (via @gruber).

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