Desi Anwar
Senior journalist Desi Anwar can be contacted at www.desianwar.com and www.dailyavocado.net

THE end of the year is upon us. And this time it is not just the end of another year, but the end of a decade. It is indeed time for deep reflection. Ten years, after all, is a long time. 

If it were a person, in that time we would be witnessing the growth of an infant into a child on the threshold of young adulthood—the difference be