it is 01.01.2013! :)
yesterday, we came back from an amazing 7 day vacation in Taiwan
everyone we met there asked why we didnt spend news year there and join in the taipei festivities
which are supposedly amazing and includes awesome fireworks
tbh there hadnt been any hotel vacancies available :(
but i dont think its a big loss; afterall, spending new years at home feels right somehow :)
on a sidenote, the taiwanese in general are really a friendly and chatty bunch. but more on that in another post.
for the past few years i have rather shyed away from making resolutions
or rather, none were really ever longlasting
im sure if i check my past entries, ill find countless *dusty* lists of resolutions
arbitrary ones, ones i felt strongly about at the time, ones i simply forgot and highly likely, ones that i made knowing they will never come to fruition.
however, this year i will have one resolution.
(just for ol' times sake.)
and that is,
i resolve to treat my fellow brothers and sisters of this mother earth as equals, rather than focus on our differences.
too many things in this world focus on differences. info communicated to us, the way we interact with people out of our own communities and comfort zones. but we're all on this earth together. tbh this particular thought came to me when my family and i were eating at an Indian vegetarian restaurant and were having a most sumptuous meal, while mostly-chinese were queuing long queues at the neighbouring pasta de waraku. not trying to create racial stereotypes, just sharing what i saw.
on a related note, i'm gonna learn me some Malay this year, in addition to improving my French. o^^o just something i feel is highly useful in my singaporean context and capacity, and have been meaning to do for a long time..
and hopefully improve my Chinese also, although that has been progressing at the pace of a slowly dying man crawling towards a hospital at the top of a steep hill. then again, sometimes in Bollywood movies that dying man does manage to reach his destination without expiring, so yeah. lets follow that model.
2012 has been an awesome year replete with lots of enjoyment and laughter.
in fact, i can hardly recall a defining sad moment. i went through school, went to France for immersion and travelled a little on my own, went through school again, went to Taiwan and spent a fantastic time with my family. all, although with their challenges and little aggravations (including a plunging CAP, academic-wise), i thoroughly enjoyed. when you contrast that with 2011 when i got my shitty A levels back and had difficulty with coping with my job, i clearly had a ball 2012.
i went through many experiences, and id like to think that i came out of it more mature. then i look at the forever-unfinished to-do lists and broken promises to myself, people with whom i cant bring myself to contact, then i think, yeah, maybe not.
still room for improvement :)
so here goes 2013!
