2009 in Review

What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?

HAHA this is a listing of all things shallow

• Go parasailing
• Start the year on a negative note
• Buy a computer!
• Shamelessly sunbathe HAHA
• Use the sauna (and the cold plunge too!)
• Make a wedding video (two actually)
• Meet a princess
• Do the layout for a real magazine
• “Perform” at the DL Umali Hall
• Attend a rainy UPLB graduation
• Drink vodka HAHA
• Become vegetarian and, consequently, eat vegemeat
• Eat authentic Indonesian food
• Get published on a national daily
• Play hephep hurray — twice! (I won the second time, wouldyoubelieveit.)
• Handle two DEVC subjects for the first time
• Attend the Panagbenga Festival
• Visit a TV network and actually witness the shoot for a TV spot
• Use the toilet plunger HAHA
• And most importantly, buy the planner This Journal Will Actually Change Someone’s Life HAHA

Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

• Yes and yes!

Did anyone close to you give birth?

• No

Did anyone close to you die?

• No, thankfully

What countries did you visit?

• Indonesia

What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?

• HAHA this is going to sound really corny but I’ve got everything I need right this very moment.
• But if you insist: a new pair of jeans.

What dates from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory?

• January 1 (Bantay and Liit mysteriously vanished. Went to Devcom to work.)
• February 2 (Mum Mia’s wedding party at Joe’s) and February 7 (the wedding day)
• February 27 thru March 1 (DEVC140 field trip to Baguio)
• March 9 (Trip to Greenhills)
• April 2 (Sherwin, Cla, and I bought a computer.)
• April 23 (Trip to ABS-CBN)
• April 24 (CDC Testimonial Program, rained kittens and puppies + “the firm handshake”)
• April 25 (Rainy UPLB centennial graduation)
• May 19 (Looooooong chat with Candy)
• May 22 thru June 4 (Trip to Jakarta and Bali)
• June 4 thru 7 (CDC Planning Workshop)
• June 18 (Workshop in Makati, got sick.)
• July 13 thru 17 (HAHA.)
• August 17 (Major Problem)
• August 29
• September 14 (DEVC50 field trip)
• September 26 (Web Team workshop + Ondoy)
• October 5 (DEVC150 field trip)
• October 9 (CDC Alumni Homecoming)
• October 10 (UPLB Loyalty Day)
• November 9 (WAS SO ANGRY, SO SCARY.)
• November 10 (First day of UHS workshop)
• December 7, 8, 10, 11 (UHS workshops)
• December 9 (Faculty Follies)  » December 15 (HAHA)
• December 17 (CDC Christmas Party)

What was your biggest achievement of the year?

• Probably getting published? And also ending the year with everything I need.

What was your biggest failure?

• Can’t think of anything big actually.

Did you suffer illness or injury?

• The usual asthma

What was the best thing you bought?

• A computer

Whose behavior merited celebration?

• Ahhh… wish this question were more specific.

Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

• Ahehehe, no naming names!

Where did most of your money go?

• The computer and its accessories
• Bags
• Groceries like you wouldn’t imagine
• Food
• Supplements

What did you get really, really, really excited about?

• Getting a computer (all right, this is getting repetitive)
• Trip to Indonesia
• Receiving the eBay purchase

What songs will always remind you of 2009?

Not all these songs were released this year though.

• I Gotta Feeling- Black Eyed Peas
• Nobody but You- Wonder Girls
• Love Story- Taylor Swift
• Touch My Hand- David Archuleta
• Poker Face- Lady Gaga
• Raise the Roof- Tracey Thorn
• Alibi- Duncan Sheik
• I Need Something- Newton Faulkner
• New Design- Jonathan Clay
• Rave On- M. Ward Feat. Zooey Deschanel

Compared to this time last year, are you:

• Happier or sadder? – Happier
• Thinner or fatter? – Thinner
• Richer or poorer? – Richer

What do you wish you’d done more?

• Sleep!
• Read more books, finish books half-read.
• Watch more movies!

What do you wish you’d done less of?

• Spend too much money
• Stay up late doing unimportant, mindless things

How did you spend Christmas?

• Same as always, Christmas mass on the 24th, open gifts at midnight, Christmas dinner
• On Christmas day: prepare lecture slides HAHA

How many one-night stands?

• Nice try!

Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

• Nope!

What was the best book you read?

• Let’s see… Dry by Augusten Burroughs

What were your greatest musical discoveries?

• Not a lot of new artists! Didn’t really make any huge efforts to “discover” new music. But let’s see..
• Jonathan Clay
• Newton Faulkner
• Meiko
• Chairlift
• Train
• K’s Choice

What did you want and get?

• A computer
• A camera
• Cologne
• Bags, lots of them this year
• The mandatory two planners for the next year
• A vacation

What was your favorite film of this year?

• Let’s see… The Orphan! But I also really loved Slumdog Millionaire

What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

• Ate out! 24.

What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

• Probably if I’d done better at saving.

How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?

• Recycle bin apparel HAHA. I didn’t buy new clothes this year. And I wore stuff I bought from 2005/2006 because I gained weight in 2008.

What kept you sane?

• Café Antonio after work, or working after work hours at Café Antonio
• The Indonesia trip
• Kaiser, my computer
• Puppies

Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

• Annie Duke
• Sandra Bullock

What political issue stirred you the most?

• Maguindano massacre

Who did you miss?

• Old friends from the first job

Who was the best new person you met?

• Sorry, not very sociable!

Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009.

• Easier to be sweet than be bitter HAHA.

Did you fall in love in 2009?

• Nope!

If yes, with whom?

• N/A

Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.

• What you do
  Raise the roof
  Everybody wants you to
  And you do it with
  You do it with
  And you do it with
  You do it with love
  
  Raise the Roof- Tracey Thorn