Hey readers. Congratulations on making it to the end of 2011. You thought it was going to be difficult, and it was. More than you could ever imagine. You secretly wished it would have been awesome, and it was. It kicked awesomeness itself squarely in the butt. You told yourself it’d be different, and it was. But mostly due to forces out of your control. You now wonder how on earth 365 days have passed you by from the moment you woke up half-dazed (preferably in your own bed) on 01/01/2011. The earth spins on its axis, did its annual circular pilgrimage around the sun – that’s how.
I’m not going to do a retrospective post this year, because I don’t feel a need to justify 2011. There’s also the problem that I don’t really remember large chunks of the year. My life now seems segmented according to the academic calendar rather than an actual one, so much so that the start of 2012 seems to feel like any other day – another academic term. It’s hard looking back and properly analyzing a year when you feel as though you’re still very much in the midst of it.
But I will make resolutions, as is the norm every year – can’t remember what last year’s was but I found a scrap of paper recording what my resolutions were two years back and I’m pleased to say that some things on that list has finally been achieved this year. As for the rest of it (in addition to this year’s), I reckon another three years or so will suffice:
1) Grow up! - & i certainly did.
2) I will improve on my social skills and stop trailing off mid-sentence.
3) I will grow up. Maybe by one or two years - & i certainly didn't.
I will reflect upon all the mistakes I’ve made last year, try not to repeat them too many times thisyear, and just try to have a good time in general.
Hopefully you guys have some resolutions to live up to as well, even if it’s just having a resolution not to pay any attention whatsoever to the tradition of having resolutions.
Also, gratitude to everyone who has helped make the past year that much better my cheery and eccentric class of AMS P802, my good friends Hazirah, Syafiq, Wai Kit, Hadi whom without which i am not the person i am today.
Sincere apologies to everyone I’ve hurt, disappointed or picked on. In the process of being a ‘better’ person, I still trip and stumble quite a bit over everyone else. But I’ll get there eventually.
Happy New Year guys ((:
