New Year's Resolution: The 2012 Version

Now, that it's officially 2012, I've decided to make 12 New Year's resolutions. Got to love these annual traditions! Here goes:

1. Manage my time better. I can always watch River Cottage and the Big Bang Theory after I do my readings! 
2. Exercise for at least 30 minutes a day. My bum will thank me later once I can fit into my pants again. 
3. Enjoy sleeping in as much as possible. Once I go back to the working world, it'll just be but a distant memory. 
4. Keep in touch with my good friends at least once a month. The longer I keep living overseas, the more this becomes important. Or just go visit them in person. Russia isn't that far away!
5. Stop repeating the same mistakes. One day, I'll actually learn! Or I just need to start shock therapy. 
6. Stop talking to idiots because they will never change. Once a fence sitter, always a fence sitter. 
7. Learn to knit a beanie. I've spent all last month trying to look for a red beanie to no avail! If I make my own, then I can't complain anymore. 
8. Drink less. The UK hasn't been good to my liver. 
9. No more Converses! It's no longer the grown-up shoe. 
10. Crash an Olympic event. Hmmm... Compromise... Go attempt to be as close to an Olympic event a possible, preferably gymnastics. They can do cool flips! Or swimming. Guys in Speedos who should be wearing Speedos... =P
11. Start celebrating my freedom at exactly 9:46a on Friday, 14 September. I already got a party planned!
12. Find me one of those little things called a job. With the economy the way it is, I'll take anything. (Well, almost anything. Starbucks for sure. McDonald's maybe not.) Hopefully, anything where I can apply this Master's degree I'm attempting to get.

Wishing everyone a good start to the year! =)

Out with the Old, In with the New

2010... The year that was. A lot of good and a lot of bad happened, but I think at the end, I gained more than I lost. And with that, here are my New Year's resolutions for 2011:

1. The big goal for the year is to find something careerwise that will make me happy. Ok, I may be asking for much with the economy being the way it is now , but if I have to go back to school to get to this point, then it will be done.
2. "The Things That People Think But Do Not Say." I'm borrowing this from Jerry Maguire. The main point here is I need to say what I feel and not become a ticking time bomb (or someone else becomes one).
3. Figure out how to get onto the show "What Not To Wear." Or get a style makeover of my own minus the $1,000 budget they give on the show.
4. Don't care so much what others think of me. As long as I'm happy, then it'll be all good.
5. What happens in the past will stay in the past. The future is now! (Ok, that was a resolution filled with clichés...) This is meant for the family. There's a reason why people have them. And yeah, they may be difficult to be around, but at the end of the day, I should be grateful that I have one who cares about me.
6. Use that camera!!! Pictures can't magically be taken by itself in a bag buried underneath the table.
7. Yes, the always present "lose weight" resolution that everyone makes every year. I know I'll never be as skinny as a Brazilian supermodel, but I would like to get to a point where I am confident in myself and my physical appearance.
8. Put myself out there. I know I don't have the "everyone will be my friend" mentality, but I can slowly mill around.
9. Don't be so independent. Yes, this sounds weird, but people do want to help. If I brush someone off because I know I can do something myself, how will the other person feel?
10. Drink more water. It's good for me!

And that's it for this year's edition. I really should print out a copy and paste it next to the wall of my bed so I can see it every day. But at least it's been blogged and (if you're reading this now) read by others. No backing out now...

The end!

Happy 2009!!!

Currently in: Las Vegas, NV

As I sit in a dark hotel room slowly sipping my cup of free coffee while recovering from what was another New Year's Eve celebration, I am left to think about this brand new year. So, as tradition goes, here are my resolutions for 2009:

1. Stop going to Las Vegas!!! (Unacceptable excuses: free rooms, hanging out with friends who just happen to be in Vegas that weekend, seafood buffets, 1 cent Monopoly, Wheel of Fortune)
2. Don't cry too much come November 1st.
3. Send Scharffen Berger chocolates to Russia and Korea.
4. Travel around the world to see all my special friends.
   
5. Start writing again.
6. Get 8 straight hours of sleep at least once a week.
7. Brush my hair more often.
8. Skydive in South America (Argentina preferably, but Brasil would be OK too).
9. Eat more fish because fish is good for me.
10. Never give up. (Actually, #10 was going to be 'cut back on coffee', but I already broke that resolution 8 hours after the start of the new year.)

How the Hell Did It Already Become 2008?!

Another year, another set of resolutions. Here goes mine for the year:
1. Get me one of those things called a job (well... a real one... although, 3 years of slacking off has been fun)
2. Actually attend one wedding that I've been invited to
3. Do the mud run again (and do it under 1:45)
4. Occupy another country
5. Start writing again and accept the fact that there will be rejections attached
6. Reconnect with long lost members of the 張 clan
7. Apply for the Amazing Race (haha... I made a funny)
8. Stop looking like a college student
9. Think first, act second
10. Floss more

Happy New Year!

My new year's resolutions for 2007:
1. Don't break any bones.
2. Go home and try to remember how California looks like.
3. Conquer Europe.
4. Learn from people and take all advice to heart.
5. Quit (second-hand) smoking.
6. Try to visit as many friends in person. (Ok, Africa might be out of the question. But definitely my buddies from the States.)
7. Find a career I actually like.
8. No more self haircuts.
9. Have more balls. (I mean courage, not have a sex-change operation.)
10. Find happiness and try not to screw it up.