Happy New Year!

I woke up today with a clear sense of purpose.

This blog was initially created to be a cyber diary. Now diaries have historically proven themselves to be a bad idea to begin with, for one being a very effective blackmail weapon. For another, it is a concrete, detailed record of a person’s follies in the ignorant days of youth. That being said, a web diary is an even worse idea. My mother does not even need to “accidentally” rummage under my bed to find the narrative of my secret hopes, failures and dreams.

So today, in the dying days of 2012, I pledge the next few hours to read through four years’ worth of gripes, complaints, fuck-offs, and just the general outpouring of emotions on the keyboard. I know. Yech. But the fact that I squirm when I read them back must mean I am more matured now than the person who typed these before.

Live and learn, they say. And to move on, hit delete. A few hundred times.

Happy New Year!

I’ve never been particularly good with resolutions. Partly because of the unnecessary pressure they give, partly because they tend to feel like obligations. Like the cosmic forces are bossing me around, telling me what to do so I can transform into a ‘better version of myself’. Anyway, since it’s a yearly universal tradition, I will cave.  But I am calling them things-to-do, not resolutions. Less pressure that way.

1. Watch a play/musical.

2. Read at least one non-school book a month.

3. Visit Maj’s grave. Frequency goal to be determined by my emotional stability and that of my companion.

4. Get something out in YB/Philstar/anywhere (LOL, reducing standards as I grow older).

5. Steer clear of new shit holes and learn to manage the existing ones.

6. Get more 4.0s than 3.5s at school.

7. Watch a concert (is there really no more hope of SS4 Manila? Pretty please?)

8. Say the F-word less often. Basically swear a little less.

9. Commit to a pescetarian diet.

10. Commit to a organic skincare/makeup lifestyle.

11. Commit to my quotas at work even if they seem highly probable.

12. On that note, be more positive about life 😀

13. Treasure my friends. They are in my life for a reason, even if I don’t know the reason yet.

14. Treasure my family. They love me and I love them, even if we’re not Hallmark lovey-dovey like how the best of them are.

15. Write more.

16. Shop less (best of luck here).

17. Corollary to that: Spend less, save more.

18. Progress from 50 (almost daily) crunches to an actual exercise regimen.

19. Travel domestic at least once (hopefully can be upgraded to international).

20. Procrastinate less.

21. Be on time (more often, hehe baby steps!).

22. Maintain more sustainable sleeping hours.

Best to end the list here, because my list of things to do can go on around the world a few times and I’ll still not be done. I am a person under construction after all. Hopefully this list (and my faithful completion of it) will bring me closer to that ‘better version of myself’ that everyone seems to aspire for.

So here’s to a year 2012 that will rock harder. Here’s to me actually making good on this list. Happy New Year! 🙂