2008 year-end survey
2008
1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
- Work and go to school full time
- Cry over a guy
- Wear makeup
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't make any. Better that way.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Two kabarkadas! Caren and Ti
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.
5. What countries did you visit?
None
6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
- Patience
- Love, in its truest sense.
7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
- December 25. That day you broke my heart.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
- Working and going to school full-time.. and acing all my classes. ;)
- Mygod, sacrifice everything for my past relationship.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Letting my impatience get the best of me.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nothing serious.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Awesome gifts for the people I love.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Parents, especially Mom. Jacky.
13. Whose behaviour appalled you and made you depressed?
Tinatanong pa ba yan? Ian Roy.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Clothes and food.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
- Going back to nursing school.
- Getting a new job.
- Seeing kabarkadas -- Maecy, Marga, and JP.
16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
Disturbiaaa!
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Sadder.
ii. thinner or fatter? Pareho parin e. But fatter sana!
iii. richer or poorer? Richer. Yown!!!
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
- Read.
- Coupon-shop more.
- Become less trustworthy.
- GUARD MY HEART. YAN!
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
- Let my emotions get the best of me.
- Say things I regret later on.
- Worry about my life
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Cooked a whole feast for the family and just spent it at home.
22. Did you fall in love in 2008?
I loved. And lost.
23. How many one-night stands?
None.
24. What was your favourite TV program?
Jon and Kate Plus 8, Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Agaaain, tinatanong pa ba yan? Ian Roy. But then again, hate is too strong a word. I prefer to be indifferent.
26. What was the best book you read?
- Eat, Pray, Love
- Eclipse
- Flashbang
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Not much. Adele.
28. What did you want and get?
A job.
29. What did you want and not get?
Love.
30. Favorite film of this year?
The Dark Knight. The Kite Runner.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
23! Ate out and celebrated with the obligatory banana cream pie from The Cheesecake Factory.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
I won't lie. To be with Ian physically together. To hope for and endure for love.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
I dunno? Pakikiuso? HAHAHA! A little bit more mature than the usual. No more jeans and shirts.
34. What kept you sane?
- My parents.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I dunno, wala akong maisip.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
US elections on the nursing retrogression.
37. Who did you miss?
Family from Manila.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
My Filipino co-workers. :)
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
Fools are led by their hearts. Make God the absolute in your life. To love is to recognize the absolute.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Where’d you learn to be so strong?
Every time you fall you know you bounce right back
With more determination every time
With more integrity every time
I know things will get better for you
And even if they don’t I know you’ll bounce right back from it
With more love in your heart
And more fire in your soul
And more drive in your blood
-- Champion by Fly My Pretties