Life's Remote Control

Wouldn't it be great if life had a remote control? You could hit the pause button if you needed a breather or the rewind button to keep replaying the good parts. Or when life just gets a little boring you can fast forward to find out what lies ahead and find out if it will be more of the same for a little while longer. It would be nice if sometimes you could have a little more control over what happens to you. But then again, I guess that's what makes life what it is. It's the unknown lurking round the next corner.

So here's hoping I won't need the pause button.

2009

Oprah Winfrey once said "the only courage you'll ever need is to live the life of your dreams".

I am convinced that 2009 is the year of my dreams. I shall make it so because I have faith.

I could have written this

"Why is it that I never seem to fall on the preferable side of this quote?"

This sounds exactly like something I would write - both the quote and the entry by Design Crush.

Wallflower

I could have died, maybe I should have died
When I saw you walk inside
And as you shut the door I put my eye back on the floor
When all I really wanted was to look some more

Going Back to School

I'm thinking of going to school, so I can meet some new people. You know me too well to appreciate how much I suffer any more.

Next Christmas

From postsecret.blogspot.com

100 Things To Do Before 2010

I started this list of things to do before I turn 30. I'm now 31 and I still haven't done everything on my list. I'm revisiting this list and setting another deadline - my 33rd birthday on 10.10.2010.

So here is my partial list of 100 Things to Do before 2010 (the highlighted ones have been accomplished):

• learn basic French (I've always wanted to do this)
• buy a digital camera
• learn photography
• buy a laptop
• set up my own business
• travel to Cebu
• write my Mission statement
• go diving
• learn to surf
• learn to appreciate classical music
• learn about Italy
• learn about art
• visit a museum
• spend more than P30,000 in one day
• go to Batanes
• travel alone
• go on a roadtrip
• spend a day doing something absolutely selfless
• read Catcher in the Rye
• save P100,000
• go to Boracay
• buy a really nice dress for no reason
• drink wine on the beach and make a toast to the sunset
• stay at a cafe all day long doing nothing but read and listen to music
• buy myself a stuffed toy
  
• have a horribly expensive dinner for no reason at all
• buy myself flowers
• go to a karaoke place and sing my lungs out
• read The Alchemist (I can't seem to finish an entire book by Paulo Coelho)
• apply for my MBA
• redecorate my room
• have my picture taken with a celebrity
• be debt free
• have a pizza delivered to the house
• meet Piolo Pascual (haha)
• take boxing lessons
• gamble
• contribute an article or have my 'letter to the editor' published in a magazine
• get up early enough to have breakfast at a coffeeshop before work
• attend a poetry reading
• buy a lottery ticket
• read a Newberry Prize winner
• consult a fortune teller
• read Moby Dick
• go to Sagada
• be able to wear a bikini and look good doing it
• attend a creativity workshop