It's the New Year, and the New Year inadvertently brings about with it many cliches and things that you Do For The Sake of Doing, such as making New Year resolutions. Well I've always thought that it was kind of pointless to wait till NEW YEAR'S DAY to make all resolutions for the coming year because it's JUST another year and resolutions can be made anytime because any day is one year away from another year and such formalities are just bullshit, but somehow the fact that you have to write a different last digit when you write the date on your tutorial feels EMPOWERING, and I shall jump on the bandwagon and list down a few promises to myself that hopefully will not be broken.

SO here goes huiwen's list of things that she says she has to do and probably will keep to them until June, when she will be tired of trying and give up anyway - but hopefully not.

1. Not fall asleep in lectures or tutorials. (Arguably the hardest point to achieve)

2. Finish 90% of tutorials before the deadline.

3. Train extremely hard for InterJC`09.

4. Walk away from stupid arguments.

5. Avoid having arguments with stupid people. (In my books anyone that argues with me is stupid MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA k i'm kidding)

6. THINK BEFORE TALKING.

7. Remember to Thank God for everything, good or bad.

8. Not sleep any time past 2am

9. Eat less

We'll just see how much of it I can achieve (:

2008 was a crazy year when everything just flurried by without my realising it. So many heartbreaks, disappointments, things coming and going, PEOPLE coming and going, transitions from being trapped in the rudiments to growing up and taking small steps into a new grown-up world where the reins of your life are being handed to you, moving out of comfort zones and trusting people with your heart and trusted and pressured to be better, better, better.

But 2009 brings a general aura of fear, excitement, apprehensiveness and general feeling of not-knowing-what-to expect-or-do. With A LEVELS now being less than 11 months away and InterJC looming nearer and nearer and the desire to play more just to have something to look back on in future and having to invest time into building meaningful relationships with people and not just superficial interactions (haha van de waals) there is just so many things to do and so so little time.

But without a doubt, 2009 brings new hope that everything good in 2008 will be bigger and better and time will heal everything and things will fall in place and make sense like how God intended it to.

So, I will face it with gusto and aplomb!