new year chuvaness

December 21, 2006

Join the bandwagon. Year-end surveys!

What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?
Had a spontaneous trip with my friends in our backpacker mode. Talk about contemplating while spelunking.

Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I can’t remember but I always say that I will quit smoking or at least lessen and I always fail it n+5 times out of n.

Did anyone close to you give birth?
Patty and Dadette

Did anyone close to you die?
Nah

What countries did you visit?
None

What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
Productive time. My life is achingly boring and monotonous. No significant blah-blahs!

What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Perhaps the week after Thanksgiving when I tested my degree of spontaneity at different levels. haha

 

What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Overcoming (?) another episode of QLC. Gaining friends. Meeting uber-missed friends again.

What was your biggest failure?
Haven’t attended any retreat so I guess spirituality.

Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yes! I was confined for three days due to viral infection, or so the doctors thought, but I guess it was just a case of liver and lung abuse! Haha

What was the best thing you bought?
Shoes!

Whose behavior merited celebration?
Me! Seriously!

Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Mine too! Haha… schizophrenic na ako!

Where did most of your money go?
Food! Phone bill.

What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Out of town trips

What song(s) will always remind you of 2006?
California Dreamin and Love Generation

Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? — sadder
ii. thinner or fatter? – thinner

iii. richer or poorer? – richer! Haha

What do you wish you’d done more?
Save!

What do you wish you’d done less of?
Spend

How many one-night stands?
Wala.

What was your favorite TV program?
no TV now. Before September – ambush makeover!

Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
yup! War-freak ako this year! Haha

What was the best book you read?
Sputnik Sweethearts

What was your greatest musical discovery?
BossaNova

What did you want and get?
Chance to paint. Get a place near our office.

What was your favorite film of this year?
Sukob?! Haha… not a movie freak here.

What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Themed spontaneous get-together. 23

What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
don’t want it any other way

How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
anything goes.

What kept you sane?
Friends. Marlboro. SMB. Cuervo

Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Grey’s Anatomy cast

What political issue stirred you the most?
social issue – the neophyte who died

Who did you miss?
ANGELA!!!

Who was the best new person you met?
Not met but knew more. Many actually! Marilyn, Jo-Ann, Martha, Germs, Lulette. Xyza. Some Chinese friends.

Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006:
Timing is everything!

What was the nicest thing someone told you about yourself:
A fellow scorpio told me she wished she had the same spirit as mine when she was my age!

The most touching experience you’ve had this year?
Every time my baby Angela and I talk is a touching experience.

What did you like most about yourself this year?
My guts.

What did you hate most about yourself this year?
My alcoholic guts.

Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Look at me I’m 23, beautiful, a sight to see tonight…

I am desperately searching for something real

Was 2006 a good year for you?
Every year is always a good year.

What was your favorite moment of the year?

New Year with family
 
What was your least favorite moment of the year?
after the Riviera scandal

Where were you when 2006 began?
Lola’s place

Who were you with?
with my family

Where will you be when 2006 ends?
Our home

Who will you be with when 2006 ends?
My family of course

Do you have a new years resolution for 2007?
Lessen smoking. Save more.

What was your favorite month of 2006?
November. Sweet November.

Did you lose anybody close to you in 2006?
Not lost but the feeling was the same. Angela!

Did you miss anybody in the past year?
Angela. HS friends: Patty, Icy, Mae, Kim. SMB friends esp. Odette, Dadette

What was your favorite record from 2006?
BossaNova artists’

How many concerts did you see in 2006?
Nada unless you count the performances at Sykes events

Did you drink a lot of alchohol in 2006?
A lot is an understatement.

Do a lot of drugs in 2006?
Nope to dope. haha

You do anything you are ashamed of this year?
Let’s not enumerate.

How much money did you spend in 2006?
I don’t want to know.

What was your proudest moment of 2006?
My maternal grandparents’ golden anniversary. I’m so proud of my family.

What was your most embarrassing moment of 2006?
Let’s not enumerate.

If you could go back in time to any moment of 2006 and change something, what would it be?
There were I’d-rather-not-reminisce-about-this things but all in all, I wouldn’t want things any other way.

What are your plans for 2007?
MBA I hope.

How are you different now that the year has ended?
Not much I guess.

What are your wishes for the new year?
That my been-there-still-there moments would lessen. I know it won’t end but at least I’ll have a more sense of direction this year. And seriously, a better Philippines. Seriously!