Looks like we are reaching the end of 2007. These few days are the last days of the year 2007 and how has it been for all of you? Has it been a good year? What have you accomplished during the year? And what are your hopes for the upcoming year, that’s 2008 for those who don’t know. I am sure a lot of us are eagerly awaiting the new year right? Perhaps we are hoping for better things to come?

Anyway, for me, it has been a rather rough year. Full of ups and downs. I started this blog just around March this year and it started out poorly. Mainly because I don’t have much experience in blogging and all my blog posts are one-liners and crap. I also failed to promote my blog to the masses. Worse, my writing style is crap and uninteresting. But after a while, I sort of got used to blogging and hopefully my blog posts are much better than before. And I promoted this site much more than before. I posted (or some say spammed) my blog posts in popular webmaster forums and blogs. The number of visitors to this site has increased from around 5-10 per day from March to around 40-70 visitors now. Sure, the traffic during the the holiday season is down but I think it will go right back up during the new year.

Oh, my company which I have worked for more than 5 years has shut down completely. That’s pretty sad. Some director stole several millions and ran away (very likely to China) and left us all in the ditch. Well, we faced interviews and audits from the CAD (Commercial Affairs Department) and some auditing company which has not idea what is happening. I guess a lot of innocent staff got into trouble because they were told by the director to do “certain things”. It is ironic, from what I have heard, the director (and possibly others in the higher management) got away with the money and here we are being treated like criminals and what not. That’s what is called Justice here in Singapore. And the weird thing is that this director who had stolen the money, had done it for years now. This meant that for years, the auditors who audited my company’s finances is either incompetent, sleeping or they are in cahoots with the director. Either way, they are responsible as well. But they got away scott-free without any investigation or even a fine. I am sadden by this fact that the rich and powerful can buy anything, even in supposedly “corruption-free” Singapore.

Anyway, I moved on and started working in another company. But with this experience, I realized that Singapore is not any different from the rest of the world. I am sure a lot of people think that Singapore is clean and we don’t have the kind or level of corruption we see elsewhere. But they are wrong, dead wrong. The rich and the powerful in Singapore are just as greedy, self-centered and corrupt as those in other countries. Just that these are not reported by the Singapore media and we don’t know much about them. Probably a conspiracy of silence? All we have in our local media are reports of two neighbours arguing or fighting or somewhere, somehow, someone in some other countries got robbed or killed.

Okay, I think I will spend the last few days of 2007 brooding and getting angry with life. Life is short, might as well as get angry and pissed off all we want right? How about you guys, any nice experience to share?