New Year Resolutions- Love them or hate them

I always struggle with crafting new year resolutions. Looking at the past list makes me feel more underachieved. Here’s how my last list looks like:

Be happy – How to measure?
Be Closer to God- Checked: Baptized, served in Drama Ministry
Be more family-oriented: Checked: been bring folks out for a meal bi-monthly
Travel more- Checked, Checked, Checked: Been to HK, Taiwan, Bintan, Bangkok, Pattaya, KL *beams*
Looked for a more fulfilling job that pays better – I am nowhere to a new job but they promoted me. Does that count?
Save more- Failed: all savings goes to trips but bought insurance and endowment plans
Lose weight, lose weight, lose weight- Uh Huh

Right, I shall do what the Guru says. All goals must be SMART. Business students, don’t we hear that ALL the time. Goals should be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results-oriented and Time- specific. With that in mind, I sketched my tentative Resolution

To leave my present company by June/ July and the next paying job must have 20% increment (2 years plus in this company is enough and in search on what is out there. We all know that events burnt us out like crazy)
To go to 1 expensive overseas trip that is approximately a week and 1 short trip by end of the year
To increase my savings to 20% of salary. Maintain a spreadsheet for expenditure worksheet and be very discipline to update it weekly. Decrease taxi spending (found out that it takes 10% of my salary. *GasP*)
To go for one Mission Trip and commit in serving on of the Ministries. To be discipline and keep a journal of QT
To lose 5 kg in a year- plan to sign up for Amore. (Oh no, unbudgeted expense!)
Moisturize more

Drama mama

The fruit of labour was delivered on 25 December 05. The efforts of many rehearsals, emotional balancing and focusing for the BIG day was well paid off. Strangely, the last show- English Service for the drama had very little glitches. Close friends came to lend their support and it was a pleasant surpise to see them at the first row looking very entertained and clicking their cameras away. I had much fun in the whole process. I learnt how to focus and get my thoughts sorted and streamlining objectives. The real thing is so different from rehersals. There are so much audience's reaction that was not anticipated and I loved it. However, now is the time to derole myself from being the evil, greddy and flirty Inn Mistress of Long Men Ker Zhan.

Christmas passed and gone. This year I did not spend much time in Christmas Shopping that I would love to. Guess with the pressure of work and drama schedules, I did very limp efforts. BUT, I still did some. New year is coming soon and I am so not prepared with my year resolution. Little was done to give thoughts on the evaluation of the year and do not know what to expect in the new year. AWS does not seemed to give a big boost to my account as I hope to be. No, they company did not shortchange me. More like I spent a gd part of it and the inputs seemed like a trickle. Well anyway, no one will say no to money. =P