my personal timeline

9:15 – awake
9:45 – showered and breakfasted! progress.
10 – work started
11:30 – work finished
2pm – out of downtown to u of t, lunched, cell phone gotten (i got a free bluetooth headset!), business cards arranged
5pm – finished watching a movie, emailed TA
8pm – heading home after class
10pm – realizing that i forgot to plan dinner. DAMN!
otherwise – great day, except my brain fried after only 4 hours of sleep, and misspelled the word “choice” in a letter to the TA, and was falling asleep with eyes open during class until coffee was called on its powers. as usual, coffee answered.

good olya!

9am: wake up, shower, breakfast, send emails to work
~10am: leave to downtown core, and find business card printer
12pm: meet dad for lunch
1pm: exchange cellphone
~1-5pm: buffer time to finish finding a printer in case i am out of luck, then to university area into the library to do movie assignment.
5pm: psych class
8pm: meet parents after class, head home (apt).
~10pm: finish working on banner with mom, parents leave. eat, organize bag for tomorrow, watch heroes
~12am: sleep!

note ~ means that its +/- 30 minutes, as there is buffer time prior, within, or after the event itself

i’m trying to manage stress in my life by getting a tighter control on my time management.
in order to feel more responsible, i’m going to put the “pre” and “post” schedules – i.e. what i wanted and what i got. the silent and not so silent audience shall be my watch dog. congratulations!

i’m sure you’ve seen this but… its a dancing dog. to grease. this video is guaranteed to make you smile.

1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?
snorkeled

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
i don’t remember if i made any last year, and i won’t make any anywway

5. What countries did you visit?
New Zealand, Australia, Japan, US, Canada

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
more health

7. What date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
jan 20: left canada.
may 16: tim came to australia.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
i believe i developed personally

9. What was your biggest failure?
misunderestimating the effects of leaving canada

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
unfortunately!

11. What was the best thing you bought?
computer with tim’s advice
computer desk for myself in tim’s place

14. Where did most of your money go?
travel, photography, fun (in that order, decreasing)

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
tim coming to australia! both times! (we had an hour countdown at the apartment)

16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
there are too many :\ no song (or collection) as far as i can think

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? happier
ii. thinner or fatter? neither
iii. richer or poorer? richer (emotionally, intellectually, creatively, and financially not that much as i’m spending all of it on travel)

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
sleeping

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
readng
(see the pattern?)

20. How did you spend Christmas?
with tim’s family

21. Did you fall in love in 2006?
yup – tim! ;) and lawrence, our cat

24. What was your favourite TV program?
heroes

26. What was the best book you read?
nothing that’s really standout. started reading “metaphors we live by, which seems to be awesome.

28. What did you want and get?
love.

29. What did you want and not get?
absolutely nothing. life’s perfect!

30. What was your favourite film of this year?
princess bride

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
went ice skating, and had good food. was 23.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably satisfying?
me staying in toronto for the summer
(see the pattern?)

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
ultra casual with breakthroughs of french hottness

34. What kept you sane?
tim, with maha.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
jessica alba, i think.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
democrats winning in the us!

37. Who did you miss?
tim in australia
parents after moving out :)

38. Who was the best new person you met?
my flatmates in australia, who are absolutely ridiculously awesome: lesley ann, smita, kevin

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
stop moving around

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
hm
no clue

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