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1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before? Cook for a living at least part-time.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I no longer believe in resolutions.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? No.
4. Did anyone close to you die? Yes. The person closest to me passed away.
5. What countries did you visit? Bangkok for the very first time!!!!!
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007? More money. 2007 wasn’t a difficult financial year for me but it also wasn’t an easy one.
7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? The day my dad died.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Writing a business plan for the very first time and actually be involved in opening and running a business.
9. What was your biggest failure? Once again, I am going into another year in debt.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Aside from my occasional allergy attacks, I was healthy.
11. What was the best thing you bought? Tickets to Bangkok. That trip made my year.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Jaz. For sticking with me even during times when I was irritable, depressed and exhausted.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? Some of my relatives. Show some respect for the dead. Don’t kick us when we’re down.
14. Where did most of your money go? Hospital expenses (not my own).
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Opening FriiSpirit in Katipunan.
16. What song will always remind you of 2007? How to Save a Life by The Fray.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. Happier or sadder? Sadder
ii. Thinner or fatter? Fatter
iii. Richer or poorer? Around the same. I’m still in debt.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Spent more time with my dad. Wish I slept more.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? I hate to admit this but maybe I should have done less poker and less drinking.
20. How did you spend Christmas? Christmas Eve, I spent it with my brother in the house of the sister of my sister-in-law.
21. Did you fall in love in 2007? Not with anyone I haven’t loved before 2007.
22. How many one-night stands? ZERO. You read that right. ZERO.
23. What was your favorite TV program? House and surprisingly, GossipGirl
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? I hate her about the same. NO wait…I hate her more.
25. What was the best book you read? Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged tops the list.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery? I recently realized I was a closet Justin Timberlake fan. AND I’ve rediscovered Bon Jovi and I’m not ashamed of it.
27. What did you want and get? A new iPOD Shuffle (thanks Babe.)
28. What did you want and not get? Move to a bigger apartment.
29. What was your favorite film of this year? 300
30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? Celebrated my 30th by having dinner and drinks with Christine and Jaz until the wee hours of the morning at River Banks, a cheap place in Marikina.
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007? What fashion concept? I still wear jeans all the time paired with either a t-shirt or a collared shirt.
32. What kept you sane? My friends and beer.
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Katharine Mcphee (only because she was so hot)
34. What political issue stirred you the most? Trillanes’ idiotic move. (Good job. Taking over a private enterprise AGAIN. For someone who supposedly loves the country, you’re doing everything to hurt the economy.)
35. Who did you miss? My dad and Mika since she recently moved to the U.S.
36. Who was the best new person you met? My assistant at the shop, Jen. I've never met anyone who worked this hard and so tirelessly.
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007: Life is short. Make every single day count.
38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: “Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend. Somewhere along in the bitterness. And I would have stayed up with you all night. Had I known how to save a life.” |