A Good Year

In 2006, I really don't have any resolutions other than keep one motto for the year.
"Set a task...and achieve it!" This is my year!!! -Kal, Jan 01, 2006

What a difference a year makes. I've been blessed to have had the opportunity to make good of majority of my goals this past 2006. Although I admit I didn't actually ended it on a high note and encountered a few more bumps towards the end, but all in all... it was a good year.

I'd first would like to give my kudos to the Man upstairs for everything. For my family, friends and colleagues who've given me good love and tough love as well in getting me through all of challenges last year. My outmost thanks to you all.

For the not so pleasent experiences as well as those that pulled me rock bottom both emotionally & physically. I've realized that what makes someone stronger is not to be able to fight off life's hits, but to be able to take those hits and pull yourself back up and move forward.

Whatever's in store for me in 2007, I'll look at it with so much optimism and desire that'll make this year better than the last.

How do I feel?... Just bring it!

Hopelessly Romantic

With all that's been going on in my life, friends have always asked, "So do you still have time for love?" I just answer it with a smirk but I admit it has crossed my mind. I've read, heard and said all the cliches you can think of, and given all the excuses and alibis but truth be told I'm still baffled as how it's easy for others but not to me. Is it because I have standards, is it other circumstances that would make it close to impossible to make it happen, without someone getting hurt in the process.

I'm as hopelessly romatic as the next guy. Maybe part of me is always sitting there like Clark Kent, wishing that she would see the Superman inside me. With her having the enduring experience of putting up with the Clark Kent in me while she's searching for her Superman. It's such a very fundamental human experience...

Also a bit poetically ironic.

Never Forget

All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is. -Frank O'Connor

IMAX experience

My IMAX experience was so worth it that I had to experience it again two days after, plus the fact that it was Superman Returns which made it even more satisfying.

The movie was better than what I'd expected, kudos to everyone involved in it. I was like a kid again especially during the opening and ending sequences which was true to the original films very much nostalgic. Definitely will be up there as one of my all time favorites.

Can't wait for the next one!

Sometimes A Good Thing

A sad thing in life, is caring so much for someone and then one day you look into their eyes and listen to them talk and realize that they are gone. All you see in front of you is a stranger with just a known name. Sometimes the people who you thought you knew... start becoming the strangers you never wanted. And that the hardest part about moving forward is not looking back! My take on it is that if some things are better left unsaid, then maybe they too are better left undone.


But that's done and over with now. The drama has finally reached its climax and its over. Atleast for me, it's all behind me now. Times change, people change... probably at this point... maybe the change is a good thing!

How do I feel? Recharged!!!

Actions

I've come to terms that people are really complex beings capable of interpreting even the most simplest of things and compounding it into something uncomprehensable. More true is that evident in relationships, whether it be with family, with a loved one, or even with friends. One can interpret it one way whereas its as obvious as how it was presented to another. I've heard enough, seen enough and felt enough to know that we shouldn't really let others dictate our actions and vise versa. I'm not saying that you shouldn't give back the care, concern, respect and even love people give you. That's all good. But what I'm referring to is when the actions we do are caused by misunderstandings, first impressions, overreactions and such. It's always easy to advise someone to do this or to do that, but we often times find it hard to follow our own advises if we ourselves are put into that same situation. I now that we all have our own place in the people we care for. We just gotta start acting like one and not be someone else. Don't be a parent if your just a friend... And don't be a friend if your the parent.

I've realized where I was wrong. This stops right now!

Moving Forward

The only constant thing in the world is change. No matter how much we try and keep things the way they were, the way they are, the way they're supposed to be. You can't really hinder change from happening. As Agent Smith would say it, "It's inevitable!"

Ever had the feeling where you've realized you want something so bad but end up frustrated knowing that you can't control the outcome. Whether it be the last shot in a game to a judge's decision in a contest. We'll eventually give a little bit of it to chance.

The hard part for me is realizing I can't stop the world from turning. Change will forever be around me. Whether it be material stuffs, like work and pay, to personal stuffs such as character changes and relationships. I grew up with the foundation of having a strong will, but as you may have read in the previous sets of post that I can still be as fragile as anyone can. But I guess one good thing about being strong is it can also make you strong enough to embrace the changes and move forward. No one says it'll be easy, I can atest its been hell for me... I guess its a way of making you more appreciative of what you have knowing that you've been through a lot trying to get it, and trying to keep it intact.

I've always practiced being an optimist and always look at the bright side of things. With change comes the irony of, "No matter how much things change, some things will always stay the same." I really hope and believe that with all the changes in my life that they are for the best. I'll hold no ill will towards it and will embrace it with open arms.

How do I feel? Moving on...whether I like it or not