After more than 360 days, I’ll do the same banana — step back and look at a larger picture of what I’ve been through. I don’t want to summarize all those happenings in virtual black and white, but I guess, using those experiences to do more good things in the coming 2008 will surely append a summary. Even so, changing the negative ones into good (and even better) will be a complement to my New Year’s resolution.
Let’s start!
1. I shall not pout over and over again. Bawas bawasan ang pagtatampo. But then, if the situation really calls for me to pout, I guess I would, but in a good, soft, and pleasant manner. I think that’s possible. Ha ha!
2. I shall be diligent. This is my first time to include this in my New Year’s Resolution. Oh wait, it’s my blog’s anniversary this December for my first blog entry was about New Year.
3. I shall be more loving to my family. I guess the past months, my presence had been missing in the center of trials that my family faced. My family is my last resort of everything I need.
4. I shall be thriefty. I just realized that if I have much money, it doesn’t mean I have to spend the same percentage of spending money if I have a little of it. Perhaps having this trait will discipline my socialite ego (if I really have one). 
5. I shall take the opportunity to grow up. I’m already a grown-up, but I still have this very visible childish part of me. The first half of the year 2007, I was a cry-baby, but when the second half came, it was so difficult for me to cry even if I really want to cry! I don’t know what wrong went on me. This 2008, I shall manage this emotional disease! I have to grow up.
6. I shall conquer all my fears! I’m afraid of the stupid bad spirits at our house in Bacolor. I’m afraid of going to the high floors of sky scrapers. I’m afraid of failing an exam. I’m afraid of befriending many people. So, what’s next? Probably, it’s really a long process to fix such fears. However, I’ll try my best.
7. I shall make something big! This is not a baby. Rather, it’s an event or motivation because I want to be a good leader when I go back to the National Institute of Physics. Mangarap ako! Ha ha!
8. I shall continue to make my BIG DREAM come to reality. Oh well, every step is process. But continuous learning outside the four walls of the class room will surely help me. It’s all about the outside world, you know. What they teach in the university are mostly theoretical. It must come from me to be responsible, motivated, active, and updated.
So there. There are 8 items listed, and hopefully, they shall all be achieved by yours truly. Sometimes, I use lucky charms for me to be inspired even if I know that using those is not one hundred percent true. It’s just a tradition passed by the Tan heir to us children.
This New Year’s eve, I shall wear red shirt and put the golden rat in our living room. Hopefully, Buddha will bless us with harmony and prosperity. Happy New Year everyone! Thanks for reading! Cheers!!! 
