Part 1/2 here
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Where did most of your money go?
What did you get really, really, really excited about?
- All my local and international trips
- My friends’ birthdays
- American Idol Manila Tour
What songs will always remind you of 2011?
- Born This Way- Lady Gaga
- Edge of Glory- Lady Gaga
- Bennie and the Jets- Haley Reinhart
- Rolling in the Deep- Adele
- Someone Like You- Adele
- One and Only- Adele
- Super Bass- Nicki Minaj
- On the Floor- Jennifer Lopez
- Breakfast in Bed- Train
- Marathon- Tennis
- Bubble Toes- Jack Johnson
- Teach Me How to Dougie- California Swag District
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Posted by Aldo on 31 December 2011 @ 11:59pm
When I was doing my year-ender Q&A for 2010 around this time last year, I was quite lukewarm about the 12 months that had passed. Little did I know that, moments later, I would embark on such a spectacular year. I was telling a friend that no month passed by this 2011 without something eventful (be it good or bad) happening.
I’ve been doing this year-ender Q&A for maybe six years now and no year has been quite like 2011. It is right up there among the best years of my life. So here’s to twelve months of awesome — we end not with a fizzle, but with a bang!
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What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?
- Drive
- Park (this calls for a long-overdue entry)
- Travel alone
- Wade into a pond (of the Leyte Landing Memorial, no less)
- Be in two places at once (à la A Walk to Remember haha); there’s this spot on the San Juanico Bridge, that supposedly straddles Leyte and Samar
- Finance my travels
- Go out on a “date”
- Spend my birthday alone and away from home
- NOT graduate on time
- Book a motel room
- Go helmet diving
- Go skimboarding
- Go zorbing
- Make pesto
- Handle a large class
- Watch a concert
- Meet (and shake hands with) my favorite artist
- Get my head shaved
- Jog around the circumference of Freedom Park + Baker Field (can’t believe only this year)
- “Dance” on stage
- Enter a casino
- Literally RUN to the airport, with minutes to spare before the boarding gates close (I felt like I was in Home Alone)
- Watch a train zoom past me, across the national highway
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Posted by Aldo on 31 December 2011 @ 11:00pm
