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 Welcome to the final day of 2024.

A reflection of the year won't mean much. Work-wise, i feel that i've gotten past a few big hurdles and gotten to prove myself here and there. Although, most of the work i am doing can be done at home.

Which gets to the point when i talk about health-wise, it feels like i'm on the down low. My weight is at its highest and i'm noticing inflexibility in my movement range. One thing that scared the heck out of me was during my Japan trip, when i laid down in the bathtub, it takes a crazy amount of effort and re-positioning myself to get myself up.

Really got to look to cutting the weight down somehow. It'll help in the next trip too when i go for that daily 20k steps per day routine.

What's to look forward in 2025?

Well i started the job transfer thingy and hopefully i will get to hear something back and move to some other place where i get to do some technical skilling. It was a bit unfortunate that one position i was eyeing previously was filled but nothing i can do much about it in terms of timing.

Also, hope to get into Pokemon investing. Yeah, you heard that right. It seems that there are investing bro culture in Pokemon cards. I think i will go light on this and just put a bit of budget on some products. The basic "buy low sell high".

I also turn 35 next year. Meaning i will be eligible to get a flat of my own. The money part is still blurry. Will need to look into loans and stuff if i want to buy the month i turn.

Hope the next year will be better than this.

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