Merry Musings

2011 is coming. While new year is about to unfold, let me jot down the things I ought to accomplish by time another year folds:

1. Buy a car: totally committed to this one. Willing to cut shopping expenses and pigging out at fine dining restaurants.

2. Will eat for healthy options: Will prepare and cook my food. Buy groceries.

3. Ace all subjects and shift programs: I’m getting there. Will prepare the letters and enroll next term

4. Augment investment fund

5. Update online notebooks (at least once a week)

6. Exercise thrice a week/ avail gym program

To be continued

1. Draft and design organizer: Personalize to tailor-fit needs. search for design inspirations and start the layout.

Reminders:

savings counter

cone of learning diagram

fashion lookbook

diet plans

shopping guides

contact numbers

website guides

quotes box

wardrobe inventory

investments tracker

school mantra

resolutions

time management tools

dares page

look for spiral binder and cover

2. Make reviews of new book reads.

3. Update other blogs: detox plan and case study guide

4. Upload pictures of latest trips and adventures with HS friends, college friends, and ormates, and mentoring sessions.

5.  Scout for new phone.

6. Develop a new healthy diet plan for maintenance after detox.

7. Prepare personalized stationery for new year.

8. list down gift list for family, friends, and godchildren

9. Prepare and download music list

10. Prepare and design for room renovation

Again, I’m going in circles.

I’m not one of THE bloggers (TB), the respected and sought-after writers of the modern age, who make it big time in blogosphere. I don’t intend to be one of them as I could only imagine how life is both sweet and painful for them. I’ve been thinking of how difficult it could be for the bloggers to write for their audience who are often under the invisibility cloak. To be expected to write each day. To be interesting in the mainstream kind of way. (Wow rhyming)

Many would actually not think twice of trading CAREERS with them. Imagine the freebies, the attention, the parties, exclusive invites, and (insert lavish and posh scenes here). But we are only seeing one side of the coin. We don’t realize that more than merely partying, they exert the extra effort to push their pens and drive almost-addicted and stalker-ish readers back to their sites. It’s not as easy as typing as they think. They need to censor and proofread. If they skip this part, they risking negative publicity to go viral.

Unlike laid-back pages like this, they couldn’t write boring topics like what you are reading. I could write freely because I have no intentions of pleasing anyone. Going back, they have a sui generis celebrity status. They have to maintain that image because new waves of bloggers are mushrooming. So, they need to keep their places on their pedestals. There’s heavy competition out there.

Imagine being the writer/editor/photographer/designer? It’s a tough circle they are in. A circle that is not as endless as it expands. The band is getting thinner. I have  friends who are having the time of their lives living in their blog world. At times, it’s a creative distraction for those single people who have no one to spend their lull times with. For the attached, it is a way of broadening their schema. It’s a meet-and-greet space to the blogger and the world outside of the romantic love affair. 

It’s difficult to leave a raw sketch of your mind on the dashboard. They can’t afford to risk it.

I only have good words for them. 

I’m in vertigo.

sprawling-spreading out in different directions

trigger-happy/crazy-tending to act rashly or without due consideration

goof around-To waste or kill time

fine print-less noticeable print smaller than the more obvious larger print it accompanies

mainstream-common current thought of majorit

fragmented-A small part/portion broken off something; debris

holla-A colloquial phrase, slang form of “holler”, used as a greeting, can also refer to talking, or flirting.

a bit of (insert) and a lot of (insert)

cotton candy pink and fluff

intersperse-to diversify (something) with other things scattered here and there

wannabe

shudder at the thought-to shake or tremble suddenly and violently, as from horror, fear, aversion

mundane-Of, relating to, or typical of this world; secular.

to be continued

I want a car. I don’t know how I will I get my own car. But I should have the money by then to have down payment for a car.

I want down payment for a condo

I need a better paying job.

If money was no issue, I would study abroad, photography, graphic design, video editing, buy clothes til I drop, buy car and go everywhere anywhere.

But it is an issue. I am am stingy for a reason that I have better value for money now.

It’s the final stretch before the term ends.

Just finished editing the video. I had so much fun.

10-day break starts today.

I could finally have those extra minutes of sleep, minus the guilt, and fear of reprimand.

BTW, yesterday’s word of the day was REPRIEVE.

REPRIEVE: to delay the impending punishment

Next Tuesday would be enrollment day. Thank goodness for credit cards. On Tuesday, credit card will save my day and an mba term. I process to loan and pay when I get my reimbursement. I’m about to finish the videos I edited. I must say that they’re looking great.

I’ve been stalking blogs. Fashion is so tempting. Sigh.

AGSB

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In Pursuit of Excellence

The noblest search is the search for excellence. Lyndon B. Johnson

What is EXCELLENCE?

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher 

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. Abraham Lincoln

The high road of excellence may not be easy to tread.

Some may choose to speed up, while others may choose to slow down.

There will be roadblocks, potholes, detours, and dead ends.

One cannot simply ignore the signs to accelerate one’s way to excellence.

Sometimes, in order to move ahead, one must give way.

”Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. “ -Pat Riley

Never forget. The road to success is marked with many tempting parking places. Say this to yourself all the time: “NO PARKING!”-Francis Kong