2009/2010 Tag/Meme..

Credit is not to me, I got this trailed from one blog to another blog and to another..., but all the same thanks!


1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
Blimey, I did more last year that I've never done before! Some shit stuff and some great things

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I think my last post answers that!

3. How will you be spending New Year’s Eve?
In past tense now.  I spent it in indoors trying to knock some sense into a sibling

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No

5. What countries did you visit?
I did more travelling this year than ever.  Australia, Dubai, Morocco, Canada, Malaysia and Singapore

6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
To have enough courage to stand up and put myself first in one very certain element of my life.

7. What date from 2009 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
1st August, I can't go into reasons why, but everything I ever believed in and put my energy towards got crushed to unimaginable tiny pieces and in some respects it all went downhill from then onwards!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Seeing through the end of a friend's cancer battle.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Failure only occurs if you accept defeat.  I don't do defeat, I just re-assess!

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Thank God, No

11. What was the best thing you bought?
My car and almost my home..still have to sign on the dotted line for the latter though

12. Where did most of your money go?
Car, home and lots of travelling

13. What song will always remind you of 2009?
What about Now..Westlife

14. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Strangely enough contemplation

15. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Hoped for the hopeless

16. What was your favourite TV program?
Didn't watch enough of TV to know / care.

17. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I do not hate.  I just stop caring!

18. What was the best book you read?
The Kite Runner.  But on a funny level I've enjoyed reading Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella, made me laugh when I thought I wouldn't / couldn't!

19. What was your greatest musical discovery?
None that comes to mind right now.

20. What was your favourite film of this year?
Not one favourite, a few that made the mark for me.

21. What did you do on your birthday?
Let's put it this way it wasn't celebrated the way I had hoped, but all the same a day I shall never forget, for reasons I can't go into on here!

22. What kept you sane?
Faith and my special friend Marlene.

23. Who did you miss?
Nobody

24. Who was the best new person you met?
My dad's cousin in Sydney, she was a laugh and a breath of fresh air, quite reminds me of myself. I met lots of other people at my brother's wedding in Perth and that was one hell of an experience.  I don't make friends easily and so if I do click with a person it must be something special! (a tad bit of useless info :p)

25. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009?
Have faith and live

New Year....New Beginning!

I am not one for making New Year’s resolutions. I suppose I deem it as more of a fad than anything. I have yet to meet a person who has made a resolution at New Year’s and maintained with it. I'm not a pessimist, more a realist, and definitely an optimist. That's why I feel that if you want to make a resolution it should be at any point in the year and certainly not in the spirit of the moment; made and most probably forgotten.

Said that, if you honestly feel you can make a resolution at New Year and uphold with it then you deserve a pat on the back. I pledge no resolutions at New Year. I tend to makes assurance to myself at different point through the year. It is usually following an event, change, an experience, and any other element that may result in constituting a promise. I think about it firmly, make a decree and endorse it. A promise to oneself is equally as important as making one to the Creator. If you cannot keep a pledge made to yourself, how can one hope to achieve the same determination and steadfastness when you have to fulfill the vows made to the Lord?

Resolutions are not just words. They go beyond that and prove a person's character, strength of mind, resilience, buoyancy and mostly a person's veracity.

I generate no specific resolutions this year at this moment but just like the sun rises in clockwork fashion to a new day; a New Year is definitely a New Beginning :)

Aisha