Happy Monday everyone!
Goals for 2009 January 6, 2009
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Happy New Year everyone! I can’t believe it’s 2009! When I was a kid, I always thought that the world would end by the year 2000, you know that Jesus would come and everyone I know would go to heaven, well anyway, that didn’t happen.
I didn’t post my goals for 2009 right away because I had to think hard about what I really want to achieve this year. I didn’t want to make goals just for the sake of making them. When I met with my lifegroup last Sunday, we had time to write down our dreams for this year, we plan to make a dream board for the whole group so that we could track other’s progress, and give each other a push when we slack off. There’s no motivation like having close friends aiming to do the same thing you are doing.
- Be consistent with my devotion and Bible reading. This is my priority for the year. I need to reconnect with God this year. I felt misplaced last year, used up, even though I barely did anything, but this year, I know that God has so much in store for me, I just need to let go and let God.
- Pray and fast. This has always been my waterloo in my spiritual life. But this year, I’ll make up for all those mini-meals I used to sneak in (shhh) during our scheduled fastings at church.
- LOSE WEIGHT. I’m not the only one who wants this to happen. My dad is so determined to make us lose weight that he bought us an exercise machine, and telling my mom to plan our menu for the whole week so that we can have balanced meals. I basically need to lose about 40 pounds (yes 40!!!) to have normal weight. This needs a complete lifestyle change for me!! Less rice (ugh), less French Fries (double ugh), less of all the food I like eating. But then, as the Witwicky motto says, “No sacrifice, No victory.”
- Read 40 new books this year. If you know me, I really read a lot. So this year, I’m challenging myself to read 40 new books, and make reviews of all them! New meaning I’ve never read them before, meaning I can’t include all the novels I read about thrice a year (like Pride and Prejudice and This Present Darkness).
- Bring my small camera with me all the time. I’ve missed so many opportunities to take photographs (like when Y and I eat at a new restaurant), so when I blog about them, I have no proof of all that I’ve done.
- Take photography lessons. My dad bought a new Nikon D80. I haven’t had the time to really maximize its features but this year, I’ll be taking photography seriously, I’ve been looking at a couple of classes but so far I can’t fit them into my schedule, so I’ll self-study for awhile and maybe take classes this summer.
- Go back to graduate school. Now this I really have to do. I’ve been putting it off for too long. But this year, I’ll just go for it! But first I have to decide if i’ll continue my MA in Literature or transfer to Educational Management…
- Satisfy my wanderlust. Basically I want to travel again. I was planning to go to Pagudpud this coming April for Y’s bday. I’ve already contacted different resorts, but this afternoon, my mom said she didn’t want us to go, so scratch that, I still have 3 months to convince her to change her mind though.It’s also been 10 years since I went out of the country. That’s too long don’t you think??? So this year, I’m planning to go with my parents to Singapore for the G12 conference. I just need to renew my passport first so we can book our flights right away. And as a bonus, I thought I would be missing the Delirious? concert here at the Philippines, but as it turns out, they’re a special guest at the conference!!! How cool is that?
- Finally, finally learn to drive. So I need to get my student’s license again…
- Expand what I know about cooking and baking. My goal for this year is to learn all my mom’s recipes.
- Be consistent in meeting my lifegroup. I handle a bunch of really amazing, passionate girls, but I haven’t been able to meet them so much last year. That will change this year.
- Reconnect with old friends. I haven’t seen my college barkada in a really long time, hopefully we can schedule a day out this year. Plus, it’s been 10 years since my high school graduation! It’s time for a batch reunion!
Okay, that’s it, I think, if I think of more, I’ll probably just edit it. So Happy New Year again everyone! Oh and check out what my dad bought me when the family went out last week! I have the best dad in the world!
My first pair of Nine West Shoes
2008 in retrospect December 31, 2008
I did this last year at my old blogdrive account, so I thought I’d make a yearly thing. Here is my whole year summarized in 40 questions.
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Plan an out of town trip for me, my bf, my sister and husband. I did the research on where we could go, I’m looking forward to our next trip this summer!
2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t make resolutions, they never made sense to me because I’d either forget about it or ignore it.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
yes, my sister gave birth to their 3rd baby, my nephew Jaden! We finally have a boy in the family!
Jaden Christoffer
4. Did anyone close to you die?
None, thank God.
5. What countries did you visit?
Once again, I didn’t go anywhere this year but I’m hoping to go to Singapore by March next year, then I’ll be planning for a trip to Hongkong and Macau by December!
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
A savings account.
7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
December 15, 2008. I can’t say why because it’s very private. =)
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
No lates, no absences, no delayed submissions!!!
9. What was your biggest failure?
I didn’t try to enrol in my MA classes, or be more active in trying to form my lifegroup, I’lll be making changes this year.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nope, just the occasional fever and colds, and really, really bad dysmenorrhea
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My new laptop!
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
hmmmm…. that’s a little tough to answer right now.
13. Whose behaviour appalled you and made you depressed?
Some people from church
14. Where did most of your money go?
hay…food as usual, and paying for my laptop.
15 What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The trip to Anawangin and Capones Island.
16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
CS Lewis Song
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? sadder
ii. thinner or fatter? thinner…crap.
iii. richer or poorer? hmmmm…the same
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
I wish I’d saved more money
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Procrastinate!
20. How will you be welcoming the New Year?
The usual, we’ll be at my mom’s side of the place, my cousins will set up the place so we’d have a live band and we’ll sing our hearts out until the countdown. But this year, I’m going to Y’s place at Bulacan before going to Pampanga! I’m excited! But nervous at the same time…
22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
I fell in love with Wicked the musical!!!
23. How many one-night stands?
None!
24. What was your favourite TV program?
Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy, Pushing Daisies!
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Nope.
26. What was the best book you read?
Chasing Daylight
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Idina Menzel, I heart her!!
28. What did you want and get?
To buy a camera,have a laptop, enjoy my job and be happy
29. What did you want and not get?
lose weight.
30. Favorite film of this year?
hmmm….i honestly can’t think of one right now…
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I went with Y to Greenhills, we ate at Pasto, he bought me an EDGE card for my DS, he got me a CD and a card. We had the midweek service where I was prayed for by my dad!!
32. What is one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
being able to accomplish the goals I set for myself, and yes that includes losing weight…
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
anything that makes me comfortable
34. What kept you sane?
Y
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Johnny Depp
36. Who is your real-person crush?
duh?
37. What political issue stirred you the most?
Since it’s the latest, this one.
38. Who did you miss?
the most important persons in my life were always a phone call away
38. Who was the best new person you met?
never met them in person, but I’ve beenreading some good blogs lately.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
If I change, everything else changes,
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year
‘Cause my comfort would prefer for me to be numb, and avoid the impending birth of who I was born to become. – CS Lewis Song, Brooke Fraser
*****AND LASTLY!!!
1) GOALS/DREAMS FOR THE NEW YEAR:
I decided not to answer this since I’ll be making my a separate blog post for this one.
