The global financial downturn has allowed me take a step back to ponder how much I have gone through in the years of my career and also look what lies ahead for me. I graduated in a year amid the Asian Financial Crisis in 1998, very much in the same predicament what today's graduates are facing. While I was building my career as an Engineer, I decided to take the plunge and started a business with 2 friends in early 2001, not knowing the following few economic crises would come tumbling down one after another. There was the Dotcom crash in 2001, 911 bombing, Iraq war and Sars in 2003. Weathering through so many economic crises in such a short span of 10 years is by no mean feat, especially when you are running a small-medium business. Today, I have emerged a better person and more importantly, financially comfortable despite the current worst ever global crisis. It seems like in each crisis, no one has a crystal ball or a magical idea to tell you when the world is going to emerge from it; not even the man heading the top post of the world or that top financial guru. For those like-minded friends out there or those people feeling the blues of the economic gloom, I hope my blog will bring you some comfort and encouragement, and help you look beyond the dark tunnel ahead.