A TRIBUTE TO MY 2012

I'm already starting to get melodramatic because the year is coming to a close .. I close my eyes and my life starts to flash before me -- in black and white and its blurry, darn!

I welcomed 2012 trying my best to be in the most positive mood I can be. After a very intense battle with 2011, I just wanted to breeze through the following year with a cheerful disposition. I still had no idea what to expect but I made goals and dreams and wishes and visions. I didn't have the slightest idea how the year would turn out for me
but I kept the faith, a great deal of it and believed that I will be ok, everything will be.

It was an amazing 2012 indeed. I remained in a daze for the first 2 months then suddenly regained consciousness, snapped back to reality and immediately booked a ticket to Singapore. Filed a 2-week leave from work with no intentions of returning, packed my bags and flew to the Lion City. Overstayed with a friend, lived on a tight budget, drank singapore beer (which was blah!), abused the hawkers and SMRT's, intentionally got lost alone, hunted for possible and available jobs, bummed around, experienced a depressive-manic state, took a breath of fresh air then came back home after 52 days. Bummed around more, did a general cleaning around the house, created a blog out of boredom, processed another application abroad, discovered I had a cyst somewhere which I still have till now, went back to work, got myself stressed, enjoyed every minute of it, loved myself even more, appreciated my family and friends as I never did before and now .. writing about how awesome my 2012 was .

My learnings? well, this year ..

I learned that Bruno Mars' "Liquor Store Blues" was already released 2 years ago and I thought it was a new single this year!  .. My driving skills improved too. I learned techniques in parallel parking and I now look at my side mirrors! Makes everything easy! haha .. I learned the best way to remember acid-base balance, the dougie, the super bass dance, gangnam style .. I realized how teaching can be fulfilling, I made new friends, crazy friends, serious friends, wierd ones too .. I learned that red lipstick can save the day .. that coffee and an apple a day makes me hyper and lose weight! haha ..  I learned how I can use my glasses to make me look more mature and get past through an immigration officer or a police officer ..

.. and most of all, I learned to be patient.

My Chinese horoscope predicted that this year will test my patience, and it did -- bigtime. to the core! Whether the prediction was real or not, I knew I tortured myself with learning how to be patient -- the hard way. Some of you may not understand what I mean, perhaps you are naturally a patient person, good for you but to my fellow "impatients" who know how it feels and what I mean, RAISE YOUR GLASS! haha :p

ahhh! PATIENCE. is the best policy .. is next to godliness .. is gold ..  lesson learned :p

On the other hand ..

I still haven't learned how to finish the rubix cube, to surf, to get my nails done, basically to cut my nails properly .. to bake (but then, my sister  can do that and ill do the eating) .. I have yet to read about Christian Grey! .. I'm still having a hard time liking at Justin Bieber despite my youngest sister's obsession with the dude! .. I still don't have that tattoo in my wrist, my ankle, or my nape. sigh! ..

Oh! and I think I only watched less than 10 movies this year! boo me! :p

All these? .. maybe I can do all that again next year. Besides, it seems that the earth will still rotate on its axis around the sun for the next 365 days and more because the world didn't end last December 21, as originally planned.

This 2012, I may not have gotten exactly what I wanted. I may not have achieved exactly what I set for. I may not have been exactly where I wanted to be .. but God's plans for my life are definitely and always better than my dreams and my wants because he gave me what He thinks I deserved more, surrounded me with people who are meant to be in my life and gave just about everything I needed  -- and for that I am really GRATEFUL! :)

THANK YOU 2012! It was colorful and I am truly BLESSED! I don't have to try to be optimistic anymore because I just truly am .. and also oh-sooooo-ready to welcome 2013!

THE BEST OF 2012 ..