A Jovial Prospectus
After watching Mano Po 6 (Sharon Cuneta’s bulky package is the only thing I can remember, btw), I saw a children’s party at Jollibee. A Jollibee mascot was there, entertaining the kids the juvenile way. I stopped and stared at the happy bee and saw myself joining the kids’ crowd. I smiled and saw him smiling back at me. Well, he can’t frown anyway. But the jiffy moment I sang and dance in my mind made me realize how old I am now that prevented me to actualize those action thoughts. I’m 20, and I think I’m old.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/treetop_apple_juice/
Just recently, I hid my birth year from those who’ll visit my Facebook profile. Well, that’s one of the coping mechanisms I do so I’ll disregard my age. Yes, I think I’m acting as weird as a 20 year old, 20 kilo gram bulimic woman who thinks she’s overweight. I’m a 20 year old man and I’m just nearing the peak of my active lifestyle and occupation–many years to be productive (and be reproductive at that). But something in me tells my young mind that I’m indeed still a kid whose mature beliefs tend to be pretentious. I always boast my so called maturity to my closest friends as if it’s the primary weapon of my ego. Apparently, I’m having difficulties joining the social battlefield. The new year is here and it’s the primetime for reinvention. I got my old self and he’ll be my buddy for a sci-fi like formulation of the new me. Here’s my list:
Save. I can remember several instances of my 2009 life asking my friends if they have extra bucks. For a relatively expensive lifestyle I am coerced to undergo, saving is a need.
- Monitor Expenses. I tend to overspend. Yes, the ADHD-Financial version type.
Workout. I am phat. I need to lose all the earthly food I ate and replace them with an earthly, lusty body. Uhuh.
- Get a gym membership. Still optional, but I’m eying the scary, 10 peso per day gym somewhere near. Yes, I’m that desperate.
Blog more often. Blakenwayt told me that it’s weird that I became a passive blogger when I acquired my dot com. Logically, I should be an enthusiastic one since I already have a domain of my own. Guess what, I will be one of a heck in 2010.
- Join blog contests. I missed a lot of contests wherein I am eligible to join. Lots of gadgets were at stake. Oh, I could have had the chance to win a poseur iPhone.
My Blog Visits Stats: Back on Track
Read books. I don’t label myself as a bookworm but I often make fatuous relationship with books. I’ll read more books and will read everything from cover to cover, ah promise.
- Read the Classics. They are the best of their time and they don’t fail to awe readers of the destructive age. This is a project of mine I never get to fulfill. I’ll try my best to understand you, A Tale of Two Cities, Unabridged Version.
Sleep more. In overnight sessions, I can be the last man standing–the last man awake. This is the ability I have endured despite the frequent sermons of my mom regarding the importance of sleep. I’ll listen to my mom this time.
Keep my room clean. It’s one dirty room for a naughty boy. I’ll keep it clean but I’ll continue to be a naughty one. Haha.
Watch more movies. I’m not a movie enthusiast but watching movies is a great way to refill knowledge to my bulletproof head.
- Minimize watching non-sense ones. Enough said.
Don’t procrastinate. I’ll do it the Walmart way: Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Meet deadlines. I shall stop asking for a deadlier deadline.
Love and Live Life. Free hugs and kisses for everyone starting January 1.
So these are the things I have listed from the top of my head with the help of my 2010 planner. There will be 365 blank pages I am ready to fill up with all the colors of life (this sounded like cheese). I hope I’ll get everything right by this time. Well, as usual, I can’t promise I’ll live up with the ideal standards I set for myself but I’ll swim the sea without the fear of being drowned, or without the fear of being eaten by an unidentified aquatic monster. The homey shore is there. I can see it from afar.
And oh, last thing.
Sing and dance with Jollibee. For a moment, I will be a child again. Happy new year, friends!
Haha good luck Alps! 2010 would really be a time for change!
Happy new year. :D
Happy new year, Bryan Karl!
happy new year kuya alps!
hakhak! at akalain mong mukhang parehas tayo sa mga balak natin sa 2010 ah. gaya ng pagtitipid! hakhak!
except lang yung workout! ayaw ko nyan! hahaha!
at may special mention pa talaga ako dun. hakhak! malamang marami-raming comments din ang magagawa ko dito sa blog mo!
geh happy new year ulit! happy 2010!
Haha, ba’t ayaw mo ng workout? We need to, yo. :))
Happy new year! :)
I miss your entries Kuya Alps! Blog more! Blog more than more! :)
Happy 2010!
Haha, will blog often na. ;)
Happy 2010!
I don’t want to take the old me as my buddy for 2010. There shall be a new me.haha
Happy 2010, Alps. We still have a few more months together, as Gangster; as overnight mates; as basagan mates; and orcom mates, to make the most out of it! Yay!
Of course, I can’t just dismiss my old self. I have invested enough for it–well, it may not be perfect but I have a lot of good things to retain. ;) Yes, we will have a lot of mooomeeents. :D Happy 2010!
like you, i wanna be fit too. kaso you said you’re “phat” HAHA happy new year alps!
Yeah, I’m phat, ugh. :( Lez be fit! Happy 2010, Barry!
Let sleep make you slim Alps.
Otherwise, you’ll get phat again.
Vibrant naman ng Mystique theme mo haha.
Ehehe, Happy New Year. I hope maganda ang 2010.
What do you mean by vibrant? Haha.
Happy new year, JC!
happy holidays alps!
sounds like a good plan.
same dilemma when i turned 20 pero lilipas din yan, just always have sunblock packed haha..
see you around
Go kuya Alps! You can do it!
yeah, reading the classics will be my project after grad. Unabridged is the only way to go. :)
Yes free hugs and kisses. :))
It works. Its awesome. With or without the ‘free hugs’ sign. :D
A great decade to start the new millenium. For a better decade ahead. Cheers
Why note read the classics now? :D
Happy new year, Mita! ;)
kasi i dont have time yet. lots to do from jan-mar. :)
I hope you fill out all the pages of that dang planner hehe, and fulfill all that’s planned. Happy new year man!
Nice. Haha. Somehow similar to my list though I haven’t posted it. Kasama din sa akin eh bawasan na ang pagiging masungit. Hehe…
Monitor expenses. Now that is something i should really start doing! hahaha! Goodluck to your list. And If you want a not too embarrassing way of dancing with Jollibee, throw a Jollibee party. We did a party in Mcdo once. All i can say is “poor mascot”
Haha! I can just imagine what you guys did to the poor mascot. The audacity of the youth is scary!
Gym membership, I want! HAHAHA!
[...] do anything about them until they reach the fifth level of alarm. Whatever happened to my new year’s resolution. Oh well, I need to work my ass out [...]
[...] as if it never rained before. Earth must be so thirsty. Anyway, I’m currently living up to the promise I made before 2010–blog more often. At this rate, I know I have to compose more entries to cope with that [...]
[...] I’m no Apple Fanboy but I think I am about to flirt with the standards of being one. Just recently, Apple released iOS 4, an operating system which is supposed to advance the third release of their OS for iPod Touch and iPhone–and I think they succeeded. Part of the new system is the ability to download the iBooks app where you can store and shop for ebooks. In the initial release, many ebooks are for free, thanks to Project Gutenberg. Of course, most of these ebooks are the classics (which is Great). Finally, I have a way to fulfill one of my Year 2010 Resolutions. [...]