New Year's Resolution

1. Start early.

2. Do what you say you will do. Make it into a habit to follow through on everything you say you will do, even (or maybe especially) if it is just to yourself. Try to establish a system of consistency for yourself, and follow the consistencies others follow, like celebrating holidays on time and sleeping at night, because it'll make you more responsible. Really!  Tip to get this done: focus on the system rather than the goal (from http://jamesclear.com/goals-systems). Also a random quote: "We begin to work only when the fear of doing nothing at all exceeds the fear of not doing it very well." —Alain de Botton 

In other news, I've accumulated this very long list of interesting advice/lessons for myself that I almost never look at. It's just there, a repository for future reference. I just checked and it's 18,527 words. I occasionally scroll through it when I add something new to the bottom, but there's just too much to go through for it to be practical/useful. It's a mainly a compilation of quotes from random articles I've read where the advice or story is surprising and seems useful. One day I'll organize it and put in all the correct sources where they're missing (see resolution 2). Maybe I'll post bits of it as I organize, whenever that happens.

Well, that's all. Our neighbors are throwing off some major fireworks. Here is the cutest default smile emoji (do people not really say emoticon anymore?) I've seen in a while ☺.

💤☺💤,
Happy New Year!

Happy Belated New Year's! o_o

Wow, I looked through some of my old blog posts and there's this certain point where I start to write extremely long posts. I mean, I've noticed that lately I've had a lot of long posts, but I hadn't realized that my old posts were really that short. How did I stay so brief? Maybe they were shorter because the time between posts was shorter and because many of them were describing links and music and games.

Anyway, happy belated new year! I'm not really sure what New Year's resolutions I have. Hmm.. The same as every year, I guess!

1. Get good grades
2. Be happy
3. Make new friends
4. Learn to project
5. Do less thinking before speaking
6. Don't hesitate
7. Figure out what you enjoy doing the most
8. Get into a good college
9. Do well on the SAT
10. Stop procrastinating
11. Go up to at least 5 people and say hello

Ok. I guess I shouldn't have so many resolutions because it'll be hard to keep up with them, but most of these are obvious or constantly in my head, so really the only ones I need to remember are #5, 6, and 11.

About resolution #7, that's pretty much what I must do in the next 24 hours, because I must write an artist statement for school and pick a concept to focus on. For the rest of the semester. It's so difficult to figure out what I am most passionate about/what I most enjoy doing. Isn't that weird? I always wonder whether I will eventually get really bored of what I choose.

Ooh, and the poll! I was making a list of words that I like or that inspire me and among the words I listed are the ones that are in the most recent poll. I noticed as I composed my giant word list that a lot of the words were beige or sandy colored, with some grey lavender and light slate blue-like colored words every once in a while. This was caused either by the meaning of the words, or the sound of them, or just by the letters. So I am curious what colors everyone else sees in these words? Maybe none of them are the right color for you, but just pick the one closest to grey lavender, so that I can get some results :D Or you could comment on the colors... which would be even more informative! Anyway, I am interesting in seeing what the results will be.

Ok, bye!


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Oh that's right, I am also attempting a take-a-photo-every-day thing this year! So at the end of the year I will have 366 photos recording my daily life. 


Finishing that will be my 12th resolution for the year! :D

New Year's Resolutions

Hey, I just realized resolutions is Re-solutions too since I had a little typo on the title. So new solutions again! Haha. Anyway, I asked some of my friends whether they could come up with 100 resolutions. No one replied yet, so I wrote some down in a notebook. Here they are so far. Feel free to comment about them or say your own resolutions(100 maybe?).

2009 Re-Solutions

1. Be Happy
2. Get into the high school I want to get into
3. Make more art
4. Make more friends
5. Keep in contact with current friends
6. Find another interest(to broaden the possibilities?)
7. Stop procrastinating
8. Do not go blind
9. Hope for a good schedule and make it come true
10. Keep up with daily things/homework
11. All A's, please
12. Find a job.
13. Survive.
14. Take lots of photos.
15. Create many masterpieces
16. Keep my spine straight so I don't end up like a hunchback
17. Follow a certain friend's hygiene advice (if reasonable)
18. Be a little more social
19. Do not embarrass self
20. Speak up
21. Make more time
22. Stay healthy
23. Learn to roller/ice skate. Looks fun
24. Learn to resist cold.
25. Make it snow.
26. Work hard.
27. Sleep at 11 at the latest on school days.
28. Exercise more so I will not die in gym
29. Be fluent in Spanish and Chinese (I think the top 3 used languages when English is added?)
30. Volunteer.
31. Stay away from presentations(if possible)
32. Make a signature. Seriously.
33. Don't break any bones
34. Enjoy all my classes
35. Remember to wear a watch during school days
36. Learn self-defence skills
37. Stay away from the dark side.
38. Find a way to get a dog.
39. Do not lose cell phone.
40. Be near honest people often in case I lose it anyway.
41. Find soul-mate (haha)
42. Find a cure for everything
43. Learn to cook more than grilled cheese and eggs
44. Stay organized
45. Keep priorities in order.
46. Get a better camera
47. Work with more art things
48. Keep a good unread book at all times
49. Keep all viruses away from the computer
50. Do not stay up till 4 to post something
51. Do not get into accidental trouble

More than 50% :D Beat that. (before I get to 100 re-solutions) I'm going to keep editing until I get to 100.