I was reading The New Paper earlier on and I came across this:

SWITCH ON 2009
"This economic crisis doesn't represent a cycle. It represents a reset."
- Mr Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric CEO

In 2008, something happened to the world that you thought only occurred on your computer.
The system crashed. Hung suddenly when all seemed well, then went kaput.
The unthinkable - some good, most bad - happened, in politics, in sports, even to our favourite White Rabbit candy.
It was a painful year, possibly the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
But it also brought flashes of brilliance, bits of joy.
Mostly though, it forced us to hit the reset button, to re-imagine the impossible, re-visit our values and, if the lessons of '08 are heeded, re-boot our lives.
Because for all its heartache, a watershed 2008 may yet make us stronger in all its momentous change.

How has '08 altered our world? We capture the changes in no more than eight pictures to set you thinking about '09...

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It really did set me thinking.
I've made a promise to myself & family that from 2009 onwards, I will work hard for my future - studies & career, and never will I let anyone down.

See you, 2009! :)