I had pizza for my New Year’s Eve dinner. I went to bed at 9-ish, woke up at 11:55pm and made a pathetic attempt to live stream fireworks from my window. Then went to bed again. I sort of just gave up on the whole New Year’s Resolution thing. You do it or you don’t.
Hold on, it is still 2009 in Vancouver, so technically I still have time.
Year 2009 was not the best year for most people. It felt like there were ongoing sad news happening every other month, not only to me, but to the people I care about. There were also a couple #fml moments, but those were mostly my fault. I overcame them and forgave myself by spontaneous shopping and traveling.
One of the 2009 resolutions was to stop visiting Japan 2 or 3 times a year. I ended up only going once on a very cheap ($390) ticket, so that did not count.
But I went to San Francisco three times, and spent a lot on money on a course to get myself certified, so I was much worse financially in 2009.
At least I took the course and did what I had to do. I am definitely seeing a career shift and I get to spend more time on things I am keen on, so that was an “UP” for 2009.
Happy New Year! Honnen mo douzo yoroshiku onegaishimasu.
I typed this up in OmmWriter. Take a look at how Zen it is.
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Last Saturday was my birthday and I took the Friday off to give myself a long weekend. I was planning on doing nothing, but one thing led to another and I ended up getting a last minute ticket to San Francisco for Friday morning. Long story short, I did not have any cake on my birthday but I had a lot of delicious food. It was nice to see all the Christmas festivities happening, too. Go to the Flickr set to see what I ate and where I went on my birthday weekend.
Right after I received my Kindle, I started browsing the Amazon Kindle store, adding all the books I am planning to buy to my wish list. I even set up a domain name for it: http://wishlist.shirleyman.com. After hours of ebook window shopping, I found out Kindle books cannot be purchased as gifts. <insert frowny face>
I guess it is better this way. Gifting books to Chinese (maybe just Cantonese) is a big taboo anyway.
If you owe me money (think about it, you probably do), or if you are planning to get me something for my and/or Jesus’ birthdays but you don’t know what to get yet, please buy me an Amazon.com gift card (.CA won’t work). My birthday countdown is conveniently located on the right sidebar. I don’t plan on celebrating my birthday this year, so you can’t buy me dinner.
If you want me to read a specific book on my wish list, write down the name in the gift card message. Thank you!
“You will be away again? Two weeks? What? You going to Japan?”
“San Francisco? Didn’t you just go… like last month?”
“Is SF your new second home now? What happened to Tokyo?”
“Is there another MacWorld?”
I am going to San Francisco this weekend for a two-week CUA (Certified Usability Analyst) training. Instead of explaining what it is and why I am doing it, I present you a photo with Ema hanging upside down.
More Ema photos uploaded to my Flickr, if you are into kawaii overloaded :) .
P.S. Stay tuned to see if I get to meet mighty LX in San Fran!
