Looking Forward to the Year 2011

The New Year had officially started on 1st Jan 2011 and today is 3rd Jan 2011, so we are 3 days into the new year… Time for my New Year Resolution. Come to think of it, 1st Jan is just the start of a new day in the new year. However, if we live each day afresh and start anew, isn’t each day a brand new day in a brand new year?

Anyway, enough of those deep, mind-stressing thoughts, just looking forward to what I hope to achieve and do for the next 365 (officially 362) days…

In fact, before the year start, I had started a To-Do List on my Facebook. Just sharing with some of my readers.

To-Do List for 2011

1. Learn Martial Arts - Complete by Feb 2011 (In fact, the first Wing Chun lesson is starting this Saturday. Feel so excited about it).
2. Attend lessons to improve photography skills - On-going (Thought of taking some classes to further improve my photography skills…)
3. Learn Horse Riding (I think I will need a car to get to Saddle Club…)
4. Continue weight loss programme - On-going (Well, I plan to exercise more often and head to the gym also to continue my weight loss programme)

How about my wishlist for this year? I guess something simple will do…

1. Get a better job prospect or advancement and fully utilize my Master qualification
2. Go for my APSS (I know, I have been talking for years now…)
3. Do some part-time to further my capital inflow
4. Investment to grow my money
5. Save, Save, Save
6. Travel to Australia or other countries for a short trip

That is all for my wishlist. Now for my photographic wishlist…

1. Upgrade my D300
2. Get a Full-frame Camera
3. Get a good film back Medium Format

I guess that is all for my photographic wishlist as I had really gotten a lot of what I want and need in 2010. Just 2 to 3 simple wishes. No lens lust for me this year as I had an overdose in 2010. Haha…

Ok, lastly, not really a wishlist but more of a resolution list which I hope to comply with each and everyday. In fact, I thought of a few resolutions this morning but never really pen all down. I simply summarized it into this one liner…

Start of a new day, start of a new week, start of a new year. I will promise myself to live each and every day to the fullest and be happy. :)
However, spending some time to think about it, I decided to expand the above line into several points.

1. Learn to fully utilize my 86400 seconds each day well and make full use of it.
2. To stay happy and try to make the people around happy by cheering them and motivating them.
3. To be more environment conscience, waste less paper, save more water.
4. To be more kind to people who are in needs but always to know that there is a limit in helping others
5. To love and value my life more, treat myself better not through physical, materialistic or monetary means but in terms of spiritual, morale and mental means.
6. Have lesser regrets and remorse and to learn from mistakes
7. Do not fear or be afraid to make mistake, but I must learn quickly how to avoid the mistake or not to make the same mistake again
8. To understand myself better, to know what I do not know and acknowledge them, to know what I know and harness them. In another word, transformation from unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence.
9. Challenges and hurdles can slow me down, but they do not stop me from moving forward. Face each challenge head on, I can be defeated but I must learn how to pick myself up and fight with newer strategies or move.

Can only think of so much for now but maybe this list will increase over time. But these will be the principles that I will live with from today on. I will always look back and reflect on these points to keep myself align to it.

One last point… Yes… Just one more point…

I guess I got one point or wish which I never touch on or have been avoid all these years… The new year resolution or wish to get hitched… (or simply put it.... to have a girlfriend). It has been a tough and hard topic or wish… I am pretty much taken a beating all these days, weeks, months of been single. I must admit… I’m tired… Just a random thought on my mind…

A : Do you know what you are looking for?
B : I won’t know what I am looking for until I find it…
A : Then, where are going to start looking?
B : From my heart…

Anyway, Happy New Year to all. May you have a great year ahead.