Thursday, December 30, 2004
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Survey I answered last year. Not very exciting answers, but I was curious to see how I fared (read: grew) from last year.
1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before? Visit another country. Vote. Had my hair straightened. 2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I can't exactly remember any resolutions made last year except for the one about having a waist (two years in the running!) and yet I still don't have one and the one about being careful with my earnings. 3. Did anyone close to you give birth? No. 4. Did anyone close to you die? Not very close to me, but affected people very close to me. :( 5. What countries did you visit? Thailand. Lovely place. 6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004? More motivation and political will. 7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? Been racking my brain all day for this, but I can't seem to think of any special day that really stood out this year. 8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Work wise, being given more responsibility and additional training. I do hope I'm living up to what's expected of me. 9. What was your biggest failure? Not being able to move on even with the opportunity already there. 10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Nope, just the usual cough and cold. And frequent headaches, ugh. 11. What was the best thing you bought? Hmmm... I guess books. Or the insurance policy that my dad has been encouraging me to get. It's supposed to be an investment for my future. 12. Whose behavior merited celebration? I'm proud of my friend who has enough courage to face the truth. :) 13. Whose behaviour appalled you and made you depressed? Politicians, wannabe politicians (such as celebrities). 14. Where did most of your money go? Books, food, coffee. 15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? My days off, my two week leave, meeting up with my friends. 16. What song will always remind you of 2004? "If I Ain't Got You", "My Boo", Maroon Five songs... a lot! I don't remember the rest of the songs I was mentally compiling. I got to hear part of 89.9's ER today and those were the songs I caught. 17. Compared to this time last year, are you: i. happier or sadder? Neither. Steady. ii. thinner or fatter? Fatter (!!!) iii. richer or poorer? Poorer. 18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Hung out more, went out, relaxed, loosened up. 19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Worry, regret. 20. How will you be spending Christmas? Spent it at my relatives' place, just hanging around. 22. Did you fall in love in 2004? No. 23. How many one-night stands? None. 24. What was your favourite TV program? Friends (yay, Star and Channel 5 brought it back), Will and Grace, F (guilty pleasure), Entertainment Tonight (major guilty pleasure), The Amazing Race, The Apprentice. I got hooked on ETC as well... 25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? No, I don't really think so. 26. What was the best book you read? "The Prodigal Daughter" by Jeffrey Archer. I so loved this book. I don't think Archer has any female leads in his other novels except for this one. 27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Alicia Keys. Not just because she came here, but I never appreciated her songs before. They bored me! But with her latest album, I'm beginning to listen well to her songs and realize that she's good. 28. What did you want and get? Materially, the Shopaholic series and a phone with a camera. :) 29. What did you want and not get? I passed up the opportunity to move on... so I missed that. 30. Favorite film of this year? Ugh. I hardly watched movies at all this year, except for the occasional DVD at home. The ones that I'm expecting to be really good I haven't seen yet as I figure I'll just watch it when I have time on DVD. 31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 24 this year. On my birthday, I spent it alone bonding with myself. Two days later though, my brother threw me a surprise party. :) 32. What one thing would have made your year more satisfying? Being able to move on. 33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004? Again, boring! I have always said I want to add color to my wardrobe, but I guess I'm too shy to experiment. 34. What kept you sane? My family and friends, days off, books. 35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Vic! Ahaha, especially since I discovered my friends also are into him--it makes this crush even more fun. 36. What political issue stirred you the most? Elections, both here and in the US. 37. Who did you miss? My college friends. I hardly saw them this year! :( 38. Who was the best new person you met? My teammates and some other officemates! 39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004. I should really really learn from my mistakes. Take chances, sometimes there really is no harm in trying out stuff. There really are no second chances. :( 40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year. I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly I'll do what it takes 'til I touch the sky I'll make a wish Take a chance Make a change And breakaway Slightly sentimental, but more or less said how I should've done stuff this year. Lyrics taken from here.
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Thursday, December 23, 2004
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In retrospect, I realize my Christmas gifts to my officemates are very counter-productive. I usually have it made by my bro's friend--and he has to pick it up in Paranaque (to think we live in the other end of the world), we have to transport it in a cooler, I have to leave it in the office fridge and give it when the recipients are leaving the office as it has to be kept refrigerated (to think most of the people I give to leave the office around 10pm or so--no way am I waiting for them so I have to tell them to put it back in the fridge after I give it!). I always say that I'll give something not so difficult next year, but everybody likes my gift so I feel bad not giving them their annual ration. :)
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Thursday, December 16, 2004
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 Isn't that a pretty picture? I'm quite proud of that because I don't really know how to take decent or proper pictures and this one was a quick random shot. I'm still playing around with posting pics and I realized that you can resize pics in Photobucket... I've been wondering about that for a while already (guess who's so not tech savvy). Heehee. Just decided to play with my account yesterday ("hmm, what's with the edit button?"). So there. I was supposed to post a pic of me and Ravamuff ages ago, when we were cam whoring in the office one Sunday but I didn't know how to resize. Duh.
Anyway. Christmas is so near already! I didn't realize that. I kinda sorta bought all my gifts all in one blow last weekend in this bazaar. They're really cute and I hope my friends like it! It was a totally spur of the moment decision that was a pretty good buy in retrospect. On the other hand, I have yet to order my gift for my officemates, but that's all set already (I hope! I don't know what else to get them). I still don't feel the season at all--as is my yearly whine. It's hard to get into the spirit of things when you have so much on your mind, but I'll be working on it. And I'm sure come Christmas Day or thereabouts, the Christmas-y feeling will be there. * * * I saw "Sammy's Hill" by Kristin Gore in a bookstore today--wonder if it's any good.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004
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Things I want to say to certain people but it sounds so much better in writing. 1. Okay, we've been oddly pretty good friends throughout the year. :) It all began with that funny buddy thing and after that, the occasional lunches together. But I thought I would be ahead of you, I thought I would be the one to say goodbye first. But I admire your courage to move on and I wish I had that. 2. I didn't know! I honestly didn't--why didn't you tell me? But then, it's not something I suppose I could ask. The shock you saw was genuine and I was honestly devastated for you. You don't show your emotions about it, but it surfaces sometimes. But you're strong and I know you'll pull through (you--we--always do)! 3. This is a difficult friendship for me because half of my friends don't like you but you're really nice to me! Why? I don't understand it. 4. I'm glad we talked already! I don't like hearing rumors about you, but I think you'd tell me in your own good time. I missed you and talking for a while today--I really appreciated it. Now if we could have a reunion with the other people! You know they would be happy for you. :)
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Sunday, December 05, 2004
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Here I am, feeling critic. Hehe. Oh well. :)
We watched Cabaret last night at Music Museum. It was okay, but I honestly did not know it was a tragedy! Whenever I hear the song "Cabaret", I think of chorus girls. In context, it's a really sad song. Since I didn't know it was a tragedy or how slightly racy it would be, I had no idea what to expect. Generally, I liked Cabaret. Watching it made me reminisce the plays we've watched. I love watching plays. When I was a senior in high school and knew that I would be going to my college, I said I would watch all the plays in school. My college is known for its plays due to the humanities background and I was excited to be going there and having the chance to watch all the plays. Unfortunately, that didn't happen: I only watched plays for homework, which was kind of sad. At least my parents would always have tickets for the interesting (not necessarily popular) shows. Some of which are memorable (Promises, Promises is one of them, if only for the familiar songs!), some not so (Camelot--must have seen two versions already and I fell asleep once because I was so exhausted from school; Miss Saigon--when it was staged here, I got to watch it but I wasn't really impressed). Most memorable? Let's see: Les Miserables. It must've been ten years since Rep staged it here, but oh my gosh, I still remember and love it! I think we got the soundtrack before we saw the musical and I only wanted to hear "On My Own" (every sawi girl's anthem, haha). After seeing the musical, we would listen to the tapes almost everyday and my favorite song became Javert's "Stars"--the scene in the musical struck me. Aside from that, the production was great in every sense. A Bedfull of Foreigners. Super laugh trip! For once, we went to watch a comedy. Had no idea again what it was going to be all about, but ut was a fun fun show. The double meanings aside, it's hard to make people laugh, but the actors came across well. Loved it. I'm still trying to remember other shows I've seen, but so far the two mentioned are the really unforgettable ones for me. I do have an idea of some shows I'd love to see one day, but they haven't been staged here yet (maybe it's expensive to bring over). But who knows, with the growing theater market here, more shows may just be staged here sooner than I think.
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