It's 2008!!! And it's quite an important year for me... and it's two months away from my 20th birthday, the day when my age officially starts with a letter "2" in front, instead of "1"... it's also the last year that i'll be in National Service... but 2008 really didn't begin with a great start... the few of us, alyson, alycia, sherlyn, quan you, dorothy (sherlyn's classmate), joshua (sherlyn's younger brother), counted down in ang moh kio TRYing to find fireworks, but we didn't eventually find it... in fact, there wasn't anything like a countdown cos we were busy finding, and actually missed it... and so we decided to count down an hour later, and we missed it again because we were making our way to sherlyn's house... and so, that's the start of 2008 for me... but well, it was fun staying overnight with them... we played games, and watched a movie, and ate alot of food... and when i eventually reached home, i slept all the way till about 6pm, had dinner, and here i am blogging about the new year... and so, what did i do on the first day of new year??? sleep... that is so cool manz!!!

ok enough of crap... i promised myself about a month ago that i must make some new year resolutions for myself... this list will be rather offensive to some, but it's as honest as it can ever be... i'm blogging about it because i'm letting my friends know about it so that they can at least know where i am heading towards in 2009... and here it is:

ONE - LOOSE WEIGHT... i really must because i love the way i looked about nine months ago, and i'm not that size anymore... being slimmer makes one more confident of himself, makes me want to buy more pants with size 32, and shirts with size M; and i'm sure there's plenty of health benefits to go with it too...

TWO - START STUDYING AGAIN... I've gotten stupid in NS... and all the stuff that i've learnt in JC is pretty much gone with the wind... so i gotta start studying before i get back to uni and find that i've as much academic capabilities as a primary school kid...

THREE - MAKE MORE FRIENDS... Males especially... NS has made me gay and i kinda discovered that i actually love men more than women... NO, NEVER... I still detest gays, and my religion doesn't condone it too... but i must make friends with guys too... i have no idea why, but i have a much larger pool of female friends than i have male friends... not that i don't want to make friends with girls any more... but i kinda realised that it'll be really weird if one day when i do get attached, i will have a lot of explanation to do to the one i'm attached to... so i need more guys around me... and girls too, i'm still heterosexual... meaning i love girls...

FOUR - STAY CLOSER TO GOD... This should have been the first resolution that i made... but looking at it's ranking, it kinda shows that i value loosing weight, studying and making friends more than God as of now... i'm really ashamed to write it all out, but well, it's true... and it'll be my resolution that by 2009, this clause shall be the first on my new year's resolution... i will need much assistance to make that happen...

FIVE - STAY SINGLE... This is really weird coming from a guy at 19 years of age, and who has been single all his life... but i still feel that being with so much guys around me, there might be an inclination to get attached to a girl just to satisfy myself and to let others know that i'm wanted... but no way i'm gonna succumb to that temptation because no way i'm gonna get a girl and ditch her when i leave NS and get busy in university or when i realised that she has been no more than a toy for me while i was in the army... and i can do it, because i set the same rule for myself when i was in JC, that i shall not get attached to any girl because i know that my success in education will be at stake... even though that plan kinda backfired because i ended up not being able to get attached after JC... but rationally speaking i still do not regret my insistence on that rule because i know that i won't be able to focus that well on studies if i really did get attached in JC...

ya, five is enough for now... if i can do all five of these, i will be the happiest guy on the last day of 2008... but i know that i have been struggling with all five of them in 2007, and yet none of them is completed... but i'll keep trying in 2008...