lo and behold, 2007

i stopped making resolutions a long time ago, when i realized why i was making ungodly long, never-ending lists of things i could never attain, well at least not in a year. but 2007 is special. i will be 23, and 2007 will be a good year, if i do say so meself :P so in all honesty and in the spirit of being optimistic, i present, my 2007 resolutions:

• to exercise, keep myself fit and eat a more nutritionally balanced diet (less ice cream, more greens!) i'm already fat as it is. i want to be lean and trim :(
  
• to become a better Muslim and have more faith in my religion. i've lost grip of what i believed in, somewhat, this year. i find it disturbing, yet i'm not exactly doing anything to dismiss the feeling. so this year i hope to find inner peace, and maybe, just maybe, once i find it, i will be content with life.
• to at least think of an initiative idea twice a month, and try, try, try really hard to submit in something for whatever award there is. they need to have a reason to keep me in the company.
• to make at least one music video, one documentary and TWO fictional short films. we have been dormant for a year now. it is tragic.
• to get featured in a certain column in a certain magazine. (HAHA)
• to be much, much happier than i ever was in 2006.
• to stop crying like a wimp when things don't go my way.
• to become a better friend, to keep in touch with the ones i care about the most.
• to chase that elusive american dream.
  

other than that, life has been peachy (NOT). i went home for about 2 and a half days, i wish i didn't have to leave so soon. i didn't even get to catch up with old friends who are in town :( but i did get to visit Queensbay Mall, and *yawn* there really is nothing that i'm not able to find here. work is work, and things are really starting to perk up. i have another pitch for a lipstick relaunch, an informercial and a radio ad to think about, so to say that i have my hands full at the moment would be a complete understatement. i am over the moon about finally shifting into full gear and crossing over to tv and radio, and as much as i miss designing (i cannot even begin to express how much i miss clicking away in illustrator and photoshop, playing around with colours, oh, those brilliant, brilliant colours *SOBS*) being a copywriter is really not that bad a job :P the great ogilvy said in his book about advertising, "copywriters may be the most least visible of the lot, but no doubt they are the most important" HA! :P

anyways, last friday was yet another screening of 'An Afternoon'. this time it was a much, smaller crowd as compared to the screening in the National Art Gallery back in '2005 and Freedom Film Fest last September. but a lot of people who mattered were there... and i had the opportunity to talk to so many talented individuals and indie film enthusiasts who came over and said they enjoyed it. johan was there too, so i felt rather sucky that i couldn't hang with him and catch up on things. i'm always like that, telling people to call me up so we can lepak and when the time comes i really can't pry myself and keep my empty promises. sigh.

anyways, it is almost 11pm. i actually need to get started on work. after four days of sheer bliss, getting up in the morning to go to work is the last thing i want to do.

20 more days of being 22!!!