Journal

Goodbye, Noughties

Well, to my mind, that’s a terrible way of referring to the decade of the zeroes, but I suppose that’s the only time it’ll ever appear on this page.

It’s the last week of 2009, and I guess this is where we say goodbye to it and imagine that it will say goodbye to us too. It’s been an odd year, to say the least, but certainly far from the worst.

But looking ahead, we’ve got plenty of stuff to do. Top of the list, of course, is getting published. While this has pretty much been on every New Year’s list, I think we’ve made a tiny bit of headway this year, and whether it ends in success or failure for The River, there’s light at the end of the tunnel.

That also reminds me that I’ll definitely be writing in the upcoming year. And quite a bit, most probably.

I want to travel too. My family wants to go somewhere, and we’re thinking of Europe for now. On the other hand, I would like to go somewhere with my friends, so I better start tricking people right now.

Speaking of tricking people, I’d like to attend more performances next year, in the way of plays, concerts, musicals and the like. So, yes, it will be a year where my abilities as a confidence trickster will be put to the test.

I’m supposed to shift my room over to the current guest room. After that happens, I want to make it a more personal kind of space by doing little things with my display items and so on. I wonder if it’ll have an effect on my work.

I have to start preparing for my final year project. So I better start learning useful things.

At the end of this year, I began to realise where my money was going. Now, that’s not to say that they’ve all been bad things, but I would like a little redistribution so that I can spend more in some areas by spending less in others.

Camera plans. Yes, I’d like to put them in place. I’d also like to go about shooting more.

One of my friends asked me about this gathering that I used to hold for my classmates from JC. Then another asked. And then someone from the army asked if I was going to have a gathering for them. I think next year will be a good year to hold some gatherings, and the challenge will be to figure out how to hold it so that I can get three different gatherings in a row for three different sets of people.  I’m surely not going to last in a marathon party. It’d be good, however, to have something like that, just as a sort of punctuation mark.

And finally (for now), I want to send more mail. I want to send cards, postcards and letters to people who’d read them. And failing that, I’d like to send emails to some folks. Apart from that, in a related issue, I’d like to do more little things for people. Give them random little presents. Buy them chocolate. And so on.

So, here’s to an awesome 2010.

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