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January 2, 2008.  After all the tiring activities of December 31 and January 1, today is finally a quiet day to think about things. It is finally a quiet day to write. About what? Uhm, about something :D I won’t be creating a new year’s resolution (my last year’s didn’t work so why should I create one now). Rather, I would be setting my goals for the year 2008!!!

Ok, it’s just the same thing renamed and repackaged. But I’ve seen things change when they were renamed. Or maybe I have imagined them. Well, anyway, I’m still making goals for 2008 no matter what. So without much further, Ado!!! Hahaha :p Well here they are.

Health

Can you spot any difference in me from the two pictures above? Nope, I’ve not gone crazier. Don’t mind the costume I’m wearing on the lower picture. Mental health is not the topic of this section! A year after the ACTION graduation (upper photo), I’ve grown unimaginably large. And such unimaginable rate of growth (sideways) needs supreme attention. So for this year, I will try to slim down. My goal:

Lose 10 lbs for each quarter of the year.

And how am I gonna do that? Let’s just say I have a plan. :D

Savings

I’ve been spending too much on food (that explains the above pictures) and other useless things this year. So for 2008, I’m gonna cut down my budget for those things (I’ll try, I mean) and put some on my savings. And for my goal:

Save at least P3000 a month.

I don’t know where such small amount would lead me, but hey, their savings nevertheless.

 

Skill Up

I need to perform better and I need to be more marketable when October 2008 comes!!! So for this end, I’ll have to improve my technical skills and learn new ones. Simply studying about techie stuff, however, won’t allow me to measure my improvement. And so for this year, I’ll be having these things on my skill-up goals: 

PhilNITS SW certification – April 2008

UML Certification – August 2008

JLPT Level 2 Certification – December 2008

I don’t believe that any of these certifications would be a good measure of my skill improvement. However, they’re the only skill gauges that I can find, so I’ll have to stick with them.

 

Work

Work history plays a big part when a company chooses to hire someone, so for this year, I’ll be keen on performing better at work!!! Hahahaha. Joke! I still have no plans of leaving the company (at least for now :D). Nevertheless, I plan to perform better at work. And to measure up how I’m performing, I’ll have these goals for assessment:

Customer Satisfaction Rating of 6.5 up

2 blogs per month for Dinozilla

Zero lates for the whole year 

Now, you’ve been reading goals that can be measured. I’m actually attempting to make all of my goals for the year SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound). Sadly, not all of the things I’m trying to achieve this year are. But they are still goals, and I want to write them down.

Patience

I really can’t count the number of times this year that I’ve lost my patience. And those times were caused by a variety of things, from the jeepney driver who waits for the world to end before he starts the motor, to the cashier in Jollibee who can’t seem to get my orders right, to the bug that I’ve created but can never seem to solve, and so on and so forth. This year, those high blood pressure causing moments must be lessened, if not totally eradicated. How? Well, I can’t change the way drivers and cashiers think (never mind the bug). The fact is, there are a lot of things and circumstances that I can’t control. The only thing I can control is my life, so I’ll just have to concentrate on how I live and deal with others.

Social Life

Forget about having a “love life”, I haven’t even had enough time with its sibling called “social life”.  Ever since I’ve lived here in Alabang, my weekends were limited to a few activities… uhmm… to two actually: strolling at SM Southmall by myself and enjoying the confines of my room in solitude (wala nang paki-alaman kung anong ginagawa ko para mag-enjoy :p). I can even count the number of times I’ve spent my weekends enjoying with my friends and batch mates without needing any additional finger for counting.

 

So how can I “improve” my social life? I really don’t know. The only thing I know is that I have to. So if you’re kind enough, would you please lend me some hand?

So there are my goals for 2007. Seems larger than what I can manage? Maybe. But if I’ll only list down those that I can surely achieve, then where’s the challenge in that. Anyway, I’ve posted these things in my blog so that I’ll have witnesses to my resolution. (OK, there, I finally admitted that it’s a new years resolution.) That’s aside from the reason that I really need to post something in this site as I have not posted anything on it for a long time. :D

P.S. A Blessed Year 2008 To All!!!