Room for Improvement!

I've been wondering. I've never failed to see "Page (n) of 366" as one of the top trending topics on Twitter. For how long would people actually keep that up?

Anyway, I'm off to a rocky start for 2012 but I have 343 days more to go to shake things up.

I'm still experiencing the aftermath of midterms, to be honest. The weekend wasn't enough to let my mind loosen up a bit.

Saw most of the results of my exams, and it sort of felt good to see that procrastination still works!

2012 goal: Read more books!
I have a lot of books still left unopened, time to start on page one.

Oh, I forgot, Happy Chinese New Year! I just remembered because I'm still in bed, it's a legit three-day weekend holiday! I honestly have to say that it's only today that I officially started my year. So hooray to second chances!

I wasn't the only one feeling stressed out from what's been happening around me, and I'm not the only one who wanted to escape, even if only for a few hours or so. A few very good friends of mine took a road trip yesterday, January 22. Our pre-planned Enchanted Kingdom trip took a detour and we headed straight to Tagaytay instead. Eitherway, no regrets there. It's not the places I've been to or going to, but who I'm with that counts.

Tagaytay trip with Ikay and her mom, Grace, Delo, and my new friend Tracy!
This was pretty wild. Four-hour karaoke sessions. Dougie driving. Deadly crsipy pata.
It's all too good to leave it all behind.

Ikay's mom was truly gracious for adopting four rowdy daughters for the day! When it was time to leave, they kept on putting on more songs in the karaoke for us to sing. We just couldn't leave if "Stop" by Spice Girls was next on the roster! We lived our fangirl dreams of being Spice Girls for just one night!

It was yesterday that I realized that I can be happy if I wanted to. And so I will! I'm thankful that I have such crazy good friends in this equally crazy world. Yesterday, everything was just beautiful.

We caught this beautiful Tagaytay sunset when we got to the Highlands.
It's only taken with my BlackBerry Curve camera, but I'm still happy with how it turned out.

As I said, I'm owning 2012. I'll go places, take wild exotic trips (both destinations and gimmicks), I'll try something new, read more, write more, take on new projects maybe (like rearranging my room!), live more, and love more.

Eitherway, I'll keep you posted!

Love makes the world go crazier. Love bipolar, was what Katy Perry said. Thought about this as we sped going down from Tagaytay on the way home. We were listening to "Kiss With a Fist" by Florence with a Machine. But, I'm hopeful this year.

There's still room for improvement! Always. And I really hope things would only go up from here!

Photos (Tagaytay) c/o Grace

And this, is literally, a comical way of how people tend to interfere with the problems of others.
They find ways to ignite the fire, but they can't put it out.

Photo via explosm

You're doing it wrong.

I've been so absorbed lately, reading Cyanide & Happiness comics.

Honestly? Cyanide & Happines > 9gag. Just saying. I made another promise to myself, no 9gag-ing since it's my midterms *gasp* tomorrow!

But since I'm taking a break (my nth), here are comics that made me laugh so hard in the past few minutes... oh wait, it's been hours. Oops.

More after the jump!

Expectations VS Reality

Midterm exams are just around the corner and I'm in need of laughs. I just came back from my imaginary vacation over the holidays, and honestly, I'm not in the right state of mind for schoolworks yet, what more my midterms. Jeez.

I made a promise to myself that I won't procrastinate before the holiday ends... I guess I left that promise in 2011. It's 2 in the morning and I'm still behind my papers and working on a presentation, all due tomorrow (but hey, I am doing this). I'm tired, although I just finished with my second cup of coffee for the night.

And I've made every possible excuse to take a break, like this one.

Expectations.

Reality.

I've managed to put off work today to see a few good friends of mine. I think it was really worth because I needed a pick-me-up from this week. I've just been tired a lot lately, maybe from the combination of school and commuting for the most part of the week. But at least I've been keeping my 2012 resolution! 

Although, I think I'm about to add more to that. Whenever I look back on the last year, one of the gravest mistakes that I ever made to myself was to expect... a lot. Among other things, I thought that I would have landed that dream job of mind, but I didn't. And--as I am sure that I'm not the only one--I ended up getting hurt and disappointed, most of those times at myself.

If possible, I'll expect less and do more. I can always tell myself the things that I've always wanted and go to places that I've always dreamed of. That's easy because no one knows ourselves better than we do. But then again, I know myself too well that while I do dream big, I act on it so little which leaves me to set up high expectations for myself. And when I leave these dreams on the sidelines for a bit and pull them out "another day," then I end up with another diagram of "Expectations VS Reality."

Well, not anymore.

I do hope though that this is one thing that I could seriously commit to.

C'est la vie. I guess I better stop hoping, and just do it, then!

To-do for 2012.

2012 resolution: Keep my hands, heart, and head busy.

It's page 5 out of 366 in my book, "The Year I Get Myself Together."

It's a new year, and normally, people would post their 2012 resolutions: things that they want to do, things that they want to change about themselves, and things that they want to get rid of as soon as 2012 starts. But  I won't do that. I know myself too well that no matter how long a list I can make for my 2012 resolutions, at the last item (whatever number it reaches), it would be something like this: "Keep your resolutions."

Which I naturally fail at without the year reaching its half mark. So instead, I'll have something like this. I only ask myself to keep one resolution this year. Just one thing to do the whole year 'round.

I've had a pretty good run last year, and I really want to see that through this year, too.

So for 2012, the goals are to keep my hands busy, keep my heart busy and keep my head busy.

If I made it through last year, I sure as hell can do it again this year. Challenge accepted.

Photo via thingsweforget