Hello 2014!

Happy new year! It's a brand new year, a brand new start. A time for resolutions to be made.

But then, I never really follow them so I shan't make many this year. And I shan't expect too much too. But one thing's for sure though, is that I'll give my best!

Back in 2011, my countdown for 2012 was really special. I was staying at Hyatt Hotel in Taipei, right beside Taipei 101 and I stood outside the hotel in my sleepwear with my cousin and watched the fireworks display. 2012 turned out to be my best year in a long time: graduating with second upper class (a feat for me considering how my CAP was always under 4.00), getting the Korean Government scholarship and coming back to Korea and meeting someone very special here.

In 2012, my countdown for 2013 was quite special too because I spent the night at Busan Nat. Uni area with the special one, on an eating spree. But 2013 proved to be a very trying year for me. I was stressed because of many things and one of the saddest things was not blogging here on a daily basis anymore. I am still undecided on what to do and I might consider moving back to Wordpress where I can lock particular entries so that I don't have to worry so much about how some people are judging me by what I do and buy. No no, I'm not talking about a stalker. I don't have a stalker haha. But they are people whom I know personally, and people with whom I don't want to share my life in Korea with. Give me a break, please! Must you go report whatever I do to my parents and judge me???????
I guess the recent incident on FB was my fault but does that mean that I can't even say what I want, within reasonable limits? Those who know me know that I talk a lot and I need to talk. Oh wells.
And then there was the parental objection to my relationship but we'll see about this...only time will tell too and things are so uncertain now too. This year will be a year of uncertainties, just like 2012, because I need to decide what I am going to do after I graduate. AND my relationship wasn't a stable one in 2013.
In 2013, I also moved up to Seoul and entered Yonsei to do my Global MBA. I'm doing well in school now which is just so weird. People think I'm the top student in class and all which is also very weird. I've been at the bottom of my schools (secondary school and junior college) and an average student in NUS that seeing my scores now is like a dream. My lowest grade is 1 A-; I have 1 A-, 4 As and 4 A+s and my GPA is 4.13/4.3 for the 9 classes I took in Fall. Yeah, 9 classes. I had only 5 modules every semester in NUS and here I took a total of 9 classes + 1 Korean class for my Fall semester. That's why I was so tired during the last half of the year that all plans to resume blogging on a regular basis was scrapped. It's been a long while since I took on any form of responsibility in school but I am the treasurer for my class committee and I might be the treasurer for the Yonsei MBA student committee this year too. Maybe. I actually won our internal business case competition with my team and applied for the Hult Prize competition too, no idea whether we'd even get in but the thing is that I applied for it, when I didn't even do much in uni. And I'm liking the new me now. Actually, this was the old me last time but I faded and now, the old me is returning and I'm feeling powerful^^

And then I had to deal with cheating and other moral dilemma issues. So many things happened in 2013 and I think my heart broke a few times for many different reasons. I was so stressed too. I think it was a year of trial. God was testing me.

So my countdown for 2014 was the simplest in a long while. I didn't do anything special. I celebrated by taking a shower after packing and cleaning up my room. Yeah, washed away the sins from the previous year. And I'm now doing my laundry. Oh yeah and just before midnight, my 3 yr old Macbook Pro went into coma. The disk was full and I tried to delete files but it didn't even allow me to do so!!! I did a forced shut down and now, it gives me a white screen with my cursor after starting up :( Thank goodness I have my Air here but it doesn't have a port for my internet cable and I'm now sucking data off my data plan :(
But the special one cheered me up when he Skyped me with a cake to virtually celebrate the new year with me^^

Ok, the reason why I talked about my countdown for previous years is because I tried to determine if there's a correlation between how I started the new year off and how the year turned out. I should stop overthinking and overanalysing things.

So here are my resolutions for the new year:
1. Balanced lifestyle- regular exercise and healthy diet. I'll be a quarter-century old in 26 days' time!
2. Be the best student because this is my last year as a student i.e. make the most of my student life
3. Stop spending so much money
4. Be nicer and less mean to some people

When I was younger, there was a year when my resolution was not to say the word "stupid" to my brother but I promptly said it more than 5 times on 1 Jan. Oh wells. Maybe I should go out later and walk out to buy mandarin oranges and strawberries. Feeling a little miserable and sad and lonely in my room now.