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Honestly, I was expecting for 2006 to be one of the worst years of my life. I was just so down at the start of the year and just couldn’t wait for it to end. However, as the year is about to close, I was already contradicting myself, I am already hoping for it to never stop!

I feel so blessed this year, with work, my family and newfound friends, if not in terms of love. I don’t mind though, I’m happy with what I have right now and with the people around me, I don’t get lonely as much what with all the work I have to do and some ideas I want to push through this year.

Truth be told, I don’t see myself like this, so obsessed with work because I’m the type who cringe in the face of responsibilities for fear that I might not be able to do them properly. But I guess I’m doing things right because of the number of people who trusted me enough. I love being busy and I love being able to do something with my time.

Decisions

This year proved how I hate making (sort of) “life and death” decisions, I was sick the whole month of October because of so much stress I had to cope with. I had to decide whether I would trust the people I have never even met, and I thank God for it turns out that I could and I have never been happier! It made me grow both as an individual and also career-wise.

Emotions

Also, this year taught me that I don’t want to depend on any man - romantically - because it makes me vulnerable. It also made me realize how low my EQ is! Analyzing my emotions has never been my strongest quality and that is one of the things that I hate the most.

I’d rather have things upfront, no matter how ugly or painful that may be rather than having to do mind games and thinking of all this emotion stuff. It’s making my head ache big time!

Social Skills Upgraded

I’m the reserve type of person, I don’t like to go out and socialize with other people. But this year I found myself going home later than usual (think 12 to 1 in the morning) a couple of times just to spend some time with my new friends from my former workplace. I realized that it’s good to go out once in a while and unwind with a couple of friends who sings off-key but sings anyway hahaha.

Workaholic Tendencies

Yeah, I already mentioned that a while ago I never expected that I would call myself “workaholic” but I just have to admit how much I love my work. I love it so much that I’m able to use it in my everyday life. Some examples:

1. While looking for the remote one day, I was about to shout “F4! Where’s F4 when I need it?!”
2. While thinking about linkbait, I thought of creating my own shirts with my link in it and I would make several variations of it and then I thought “Why couldn’t Google index shirts?”
3. While on the road, I thought to myself, “Philippines should work on its slow loading time (that’s traffic), it’s a serious usability issue!”

And there are some even more stupid ideas, I don’t know, I can’t seem to get rid of any of them. Anyway, I suppose you already get the idea, noh?

Trivial Things

I got my first domain this year as well! (Guess what?) And my hair is treated by one of my awesome aunts, now I don’t have to save for hair transplantation because my hair is now gorgeous and not the mess like it used to be.

Now as for 2007, I just hope that this good luck continues for the rest of this year. More work, more blessings, and more friends! Cheers to a great start of a great new year!