Goodbye this blog

As what I've mentioned last year, I will be putting this blog dowm. Time to move on. Although I've previously stated I'll remove this by year end I totally forgot about it. So by end of January I will finally take this down.

You may reach me at my new site, Casual Doodles, although it's still a work in progress. Do drop by and say hi here: http://www.casualdoodles.com

Thank you for the visits and see you on the new site.

Sayonara!

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This year hasn't been good to me. I aimed to take a break from almost everything and get some much needed R&R and think about what I really wanna do but all I ended up with are more stress. My issues with my family make the most of it and I have actually asked myself over and over again why I ever went home in the first place. I feel it was a bad decision. I don't feel motivated here and I feel depressed by what's happening around me. Some good things did happen but it seems this year I got more negative things my way than good. There's a saying "When it rains, it pours." and I feel this is so true. Wishing it'll start raining positive for me soon. It's like a cycle which keeps on happening -- like Itachi's Izanami. I want a reset and break that cycle. Wanna start over again -- for the better. And so I have decided to end this blog and anything related to this account name by the end of year. I want a new start for the new year and I have less than two months now to think on what I'd like to do in starting over. It's been how many years of using this account name and I will miss it a lot. However, I need to really move forward and I believe this is one step to that direction. This'll be my last post and at the end of the month will finally put this blog to an end.

One book per month

Not that I don’t read books. I used to get the borrower of the year award from the library when I was in high school. It’s just that I haven’t had some free time for myself. And this is what I really missed doing… the speed reading and the fantasy worlds it leads me.

Well, my target for this year will be to read a book a month. Manga not included, of course. Sort of like the monthly book reading reports we had when I was in high school. And it shouldn’t be just about romantic fiction.

I haven’t started yet and January is about to end. I got one more week left… better find a book asap.

See more progress on: read books

What's in a day?

I failed to finish this last year. I only managed half a year before my schedule became so hectic I missed a lot and ended up not completing this.

So far this year I haven’t missed yet. It helps that in the forum I’m in quite a number of us want to give it another try so we sort of encourage each other to continue. :)

Project 365 list

See more progress on: complete project 365

I finally enrolled in language classes

I finally got the nerve to enroll in language classes rather than try learning on my own. I have just started my elementary Japanese classes and have attended two sessions already. It’s supposed to be for a year but since I wanted to finish earlier I took the intensive course which will end in June. Not sure if it’s a good thing as my schedule this year is a bit hectic. Plus, the pace is quite fast. Right now I’m struggling after just two sessions. But just like my fave Japanese athlete, Mao, I will try my best and persevere. haha!

While studying intensive Japanese is already quite difficult for me, my roomie wants to enroll in a French class since she might be assigned to work in a French-speaking country. And since I have always wanted to learn that language, too, I enrolled with her. Better have someone you know as your classmate. At least I can practice with her. :-P

See more progress on: Learn another language

The Merlion from my Nokia 5800

Here's a shot of the Merlion taken from my Nokia 5800. I finally got a night shot that's acceptable (for me). My Sony Ericsson w800 actually took much better night photos before.

Been too busy

*sigh* been too busy since the start of the year that I'm not able to update my blogs. I'll try to make updates again and start with at least a post a week. Hope I'll be able to do this... =)

For starters, I've started doing one of the things I loved doing before and that is collecting postcards. It's such a wonderful feeling when you receive postcards from different countries. I'll be making another blog dedicated to this hobby. =)

Will update you soon.

My Project 365

I've stated in my New Year's resolutions posted yesterday that I wanted to do a project 365 where I have to take a picture a day for an entire year. Well, I started yesterday also. =) Here's to hoping that I can actually consistently do this 'til the end of the year. Of course, they're not photographer quality material as I'm only using my mobile phone's camera (as of the moment) but it's ok with me. What's more important is that when I look back later I can still remember how my year went by... ;)

So here goes my project 365. I made a photoblog just for this: Project 365: What's in a day?! 

If you're also doing your own project 365, feel free to share them here.