Indeed, what a year it has been.
Of world catastrophes, non-stop fighting in the Middle East, natural disasters and eerily-timed aviation disasters, disease outbreaks, dips in black gold prices, slash in currency valuations, Vladamir Putin, and Kim Jong-Un…
… to matters closer to hear and work like worst quarterly performance, ‘almost’ bids that didn’t fall through, unconfirmed renewals, partnership fall outs, uncooperative systems that just won’t stop going back to negotiations, no-win negotiations, lost deals, lost loves…
Whilst there has also been many little celebratory wins and happy tidings all around, overall this Year of the Fire Horse has been nothing less than stressful.
Continuing this bleak streak, many business analysts and market observers have also seen in their cards a terrible; if not worse; 2015 – mostly based on the logic that many of the turmoils of this year, has not seen any plausible, viable or close-to-attainable permanent resolution yet.
Our politicians are not getting any smarter, our scientists are losing the race against human problems, old lessons have been conveniently forgotten by our Malaysia Boleh (lupa)! attitude, people are still sitting on their a*ses and Oh, the Cloud is far from working properly.
However if you are in a festive mood and don’t wish to read any further negativity, here’s some respite in the form of BusinessWeek’s Global Economic Outlook for 2015 – there is a short piece that says next year will be better than 2014 (although ‘not by much’).
This was in its sweeping outlook prediction of next year’s fate by taking into account the estimated varying effects of the country’s economic growth or GDP slum, inflation, interest rates, debt restructuring, goods consumption and production, tax policies and all the other fundamental elements of economics.
So as you can see – how this Year of the Horse has been, or how the coming Year of the Sheep will be – good or bad – is really dependent on which end of the extreme you choose to see it from.
There isn’t really much to reflect upon really. Imagine Bob Marley putting the question to the hamster running mindlessly in its wheel “Open your eyes and look within, are you satisfied with the life you are living?”
IT BYTES BACK! says: Hey, dear EITN reader, snap out of it already. After all, Hans Christian Andersen said ‘Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale’. Happy New Year all!
