Happy New Year!!!

And so another year begins again...  

Here's to a bright, healthy, prosperous, and Issue Free 2015!

Jan 1st, 2012

In a little over an hour, the Holidays will be officially over.....  another year has ended and another one has begun...  Have survived another End of the World threat...  Have survived another year....  Overall, 2012 - the DRAGON year - was not so very good to me....  too many things happened...  too much losses....   To think it was my year, as I was born the year of the Dragon...   I can only hope the SNAKE year I will fare better....   Ironically, am scared of Snakes!!!  EEEEK!!!

 

I was a bit weirded out by this year's Holidays...  even the main reason why I opted not to go to Manila - first time in the last soooo many years....   with Mom gone, I felt it would be too sad to be there... not to mention, same time last year, I was with her and saw her go through some of the most painful days of her battle with cancer...   Still, I did get a bit homesick, XMas has a way of doing this to us, I suppose....  didn't someone say that, "XMas is the time of the year when most gets really homesick -- even when they are home...."  This I felt very much....   still, I managed....  survived....  and even enjoyed the Holidays - as much as I could....  Thanks to my family and friends here in Taipei, of course....   They helped make me forget some of the pains of 2012...  the longing....  the emptiness....   Helped me get through....  for this am Grateful!!!

 

So, on to 2013....  am ready.... as ready as I could be....  I just Hope and Pray that it will be a better year for me - for everyone....  if not Great, at least smoother....  already it is shaping up to be a busy one with upcoming trips to Kaohsiung and Manila....  and hopefully, the US sometime soon, too!!!   Here's hoping... and on that note, I bid you all a...

HAPPY NEW YEAR filled with WONDROUS POSSIBILITIES!!!

 

Happy NewYear!!!

To all of you...  my Family,

 friends, and fellow Bloggers.....  

Have a Safe and Fun Time

Welcoming the New Year!!!

Fret Not Over What You Did Not Accomplish

Last Year...  For Tomorrow is Another Year!!!

"It's just another New Year's Eve,
Another night like all the rest.
It's just another New Year's Eve,
Let's make it the best.
It's just another New Year's Eve,
It's just another Auld Lang Syne,
But when we're through this New Year
You'll see, will be
Just fine."

http://youtu.be/3wSP59NjoIY

Randomness on the 1st morning of 2010!!

-which also happens to be Friday = "fridae funnees"!!! Here's to a GREAT 2010 for Us All!!!

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Dear Lord, So far this year I've done well.I haven't gossiped, I haven't lost my temper, I haven't been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish, or overindulgent. I'm very thankful for that. But in a few minutes, Lord, I'm going to get out of bed, and from then on I'm probably going to need a lot more help. Amen.

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God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,

The good fortune to run into the ones that I do,

And the eyesight to tell the difference

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Dieting - New Resolutions

2006: I will get my weight down below 180 pounds.

2007: I will follow my new diet religiously until I get below 200 pounds.

2008: I will develop a realistic attitude about my weight.

2009: I will work out 3 days a week.

2010: I will try to drive past a gym at least once a week

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last post for 2009...

"last day of 2009... make it count.... still a day to do at least one more thing on our to do list before the year ends...."

Happy New Year

To You All!!!

GOD willing...

see you all in 2010!!!

potentials not flaws for 2010

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman

so long 2008, hello 2009...

Here's Wishing for more Greatness, Happiness, Prosperity, Love and Great Health to Us All!!!