2010... 2011

Tada...~~ 10 days after new year.. 17 days after xmas.... I know it's late, but well.. merry xmas n happy new year =D

Have not been blogging for alooonggg time, and well, it's a good time to blog..., coz... wads NEW YEAR without new year resolution, right?

But maybe... let's start with X'mas wish... with the "Dear Santa..."

Dear Santa,

I have not been a very nice girl in 2010.... But thank you for all the blessings that you have given me, the family, the friends, the people around me.. I was having a very hard time with work, but you helped me through it =D and looking back, I am grateful that I at least have work to do, no matter how physically and emotionally draining for me.... *paused*...

Dear Santa,

Thank you for all the opportunities that you have given me in 2010... there were the new Japanese classes, new people I met, new environment I adapted to, new language I strived for... and thank you, that at the end of the year, I was able to pull through the JLPT exam... *Another pause..*

Dear Santa,

Thank you for all the great people that walked in and out of my life... Thank you for my counsellor, thank you for my managers, thank you for the great colleagues who have come and left their marks on me... I must say, that I am who I am now because of them.... Thank you for the people who replaced these people, whom I would be the one, leaving MY marks on them.... *Yet another pause*..

Dear Santa,

Thank you for the friends and families around me, who have helped me through when I am down and when I am in need of them... For all the extended hands that reached for me, Thank you.... Thank you also for the new friends I have made from the different walks of life... Thank you for their patience and exchange of thoughts, arguments, advices etc.... Thank you for the laughters and frowns on every faces I've seen.. Thank you for the times we have shared... *let's pause again*

Dear Santa,

Thank you for the countries I have always lived and my home country, that they have been in a fairly good economic condition and fairly stable in terms of safety.... Thank you for the people on top of the thrones... that they were able to be the epitome (well not all) of how good leaders should be....

So Dear Santa, I am grateful for all the above and much more than those above =D.. Since xmas is over, i'll ask for xmas wish in 12 months time =D

Ok... let's move on to new year's resolution... It's 2011... and it's a brand new year and it's time we make a change...

 Well.. the background of the new year resolution, is (always) because I went to church on 1st January and there was a very inspiring sermon taught on that day.. haha.. (though i was half dragging my feet and half closing my eyes to go to church... geez! nata!)

Ok.. the preacher, was saying this tag line.. "ARE YOU GONNA BE THE SAME AS WHAT YOU ARE, WHO YOU ARE IN 2010?"....

Are you gonna be the same lazybump as who you were in 2010? Are you gonna be the same person who always skipped church in 2010? Are you gonna be the same person who always skipped reading bible in 2010? 

I know it's very religious here, but my thoughts were somewhere else....... Am I gonna be the same person as I was in 2010? Or am I gonna change... and be a better person this year? 

Of course, I was telling myself im gonna change XD XD XD 

The second portion of the sermon was talking about how people usually scared to change (even if it's for the better) due to many reasons... uncertainty, scared of failures, scared of leaving the comfort zones that you are in now.. (like,.... u dun go church on sundays, coz u r having fun rolling around in bed.. woopzie)...

Anihoooz....,, my preacher continued, for whatever that you are SCARED of, you should not... coz God is with you.. he'll be your strength when you cross the red sea... he'll be there to guide you throughout... so, wad are you afraid of XD XD XD XD XD XD Let's make that baby step forward!!

 

So, my new year resolution has been defined, in the most vague and generic way.... in this tag line "TO CROSS THE READ SEA!"..

Let's see how many red seas I'll cross by the end of the year..... oh ya.. on 2nd Jan, I went to another church service (though, again, was half dragged to go by my siblings), another preacher was again, giving a very inspirational insights..... she said... COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS...

She was unexpectedly giving a very good suggestion... to keep a journal (to blog!), preferably, on daily basis... the journal could state things like:

- Who I spoke with

- What do we share

- What happened today

- What can I learn from it..

 

I know it's pretty vague and mostly, if I were to blog daily, it'll be all about work... work and complaints about people.... *Snap!* my preacher said that there should NOT be any complaints... ONLY the good things you have learnt today.. it's blessings, remember? XD XD XD XD XD for example, ur boss scold you, you should NOT said that "screw the boss xxxxxxx"..... u should put it "i did X, and was warned by my boss... we talked about it and i learnt that xxxx next time..."

So, yahh.... tat's wad im gonna do for 2011.. maybe not on daily basis tho O_O it'll be quite taxing =p 

For 2011, i'll learn to be more open minded... i'll learn to ignore bad influences and bad companies... i'll learn to be more understanding with other people's erhm..... situations, i'll build the network (in 1001 interpretation of "network" XD) and finally, i'll learn to be less stubborn and get ready for crossing the red seas...!!