Capturing 2016

Wow. It is 2016 already? What a year 2015 had been. 

No one-word answer could describe the experience I went through the past 12 months. 

2015 taught me something which I have heard of, but never really took serious of; to expect the unexpected. Allah is the best planner and at times, no matter how much we plan for something to succeed and fall through, if He says no, you have to learn to accept that He has better plans lined up for us. 

Happiness would be too mild of a word to say. I learned to be happy everyday, even though at times I did wished I could remove the person or things hindering from that happiness. But hey, there's loads to be thankful for.

I have been tremendously blessed with so many wonders in life; living and non-living things. Family, friends, neighbours, acquaintances, short getaways, fitness classes, a glass of the tarik, blocked leave (which is ending soon and quite frankly I can't wait to start back work) and many more. 

While many would be thinking, penning, jotting and perhaps even listing down their doable 2016 resolution, I reflected on my life all these years and thought of my own personal goals which I too should consider woking on. Since the past few years, I gave up having any resolutions becoz seriously, I never really worked much on achieving them. I always had tonnes of excuses for not ensuring that resolution happened. Fact was, I was downright lazy and pinning the blame on everyone else but myself. 

So Ratna, Ayu and I were hanging out on whatsapp a few days ago talking about 2016 and how we are gonna do things differently. I love how my two besties' goals revolved around their families, significant other and their juniors. I have been giving this some thought to myself and what the heck, let's this be my personal baby project to myself. 

This baby project of mine is entitled Capturing 2016. 

You see, I can't possibly control certain things in my life, like the qada' and qadar, settling down with the one written for me since in Loh Mahfuz as well as when it is my time to be called back and return to Him. What I can work on, is making every moment count and potentially living life to the the brink of happiness. 

Here's a list of things I have in my mind at the top of my head now:

• be MORE productive at work and push the boundaries
• expand my own personal limits and abilities/capabilities
• find time for me-time to broaden my horizons, chill, relax, read, etc
• heighten up my personal expectations, no use staying put in the same space as before
• I plan to overcome my fear of water and be able to swim at least 1 entire lap in the pool

The fifth one may be the hardest to achieve and I wonder if I am shooting myself in the foot now. But that is part of heightening my personal expectation right?

At the same time, I will be continuing with my usual fitness classes such as zumba and yoga classes once the registration is open. I have a feeling 2016 is gonna be a fantastic year. I do hope (as always) to be able to blog more. This blocked leave season, I was busy doing nothing this time round. All I wanted was to get bored of all this free time and prepared myself (mentally and spiritually) for 2016.

Now that 2016 is here, I am ready!

Where to now?

To the kitchen to fill my tummy with my mom's top of the menu Chapati!