Time flies by when you’re having fun.

That’s what I said on my first post for 2010.  Almost three months have passed, it’s time to check if I’m “performing” based on the resolutions I have set for myself.

1. Make new friends.
2. Learn something new.
3. Look for the silver lining.
4. Take more pictures.
5. Make a conscious effort to smile.

As for the first item, I would say that I’ve reconnected with very old friends.  So that would count.  After my high school graduation, I’ve lost touch with my classmates and schoolmates who I have spent a decade of my life with.  I recall having a large group of friends, barkada, as we call it and a few very close friends.  I haven’t seen any of them except for my best friend, whom I went out with last year. She flew back home for a short vacation.  She is based in China now, so we rarely get to chat.  As for the rest of them, I only see them in Facebook.  Even if I have had social network groups in the past, I’m still amazed with the way Facebook connects people.  I’m even friends with my favorite high school class adviser.  Cool, right?!

About learning something new, I would say that I learned a lot about cars, specifically Toyota hybrids.  As a researcher, I have no choice on what topics to study about, fortunately I’m not easily bored by the subjects I have to research.  Earlier this year, I even had to write about Feng Shui.  It was quite interesting to learn about something that I often hear about.

Now about that silver lining, I’m not yet sure what exactly I meant when I wrote that.  Perhaps I can count winning a couple of Manila Ocean Park tickets from Discovery Asia at a time when I had no projects, thus, no financial means.  I did sell those tickets though.

Most of the pictures I took for the first two months are dishes I cooked.  I posted some in Facebook but I’m seriously considering creating a cooking blog, or recipe blog of sorts.  I have yet to take pictures of myself though.

Smiling is indeed a conscious effort.  I would say that I’m a shy and reserved type of person by nature so I rarely smile especially at strangers… and that’s probably a good thing.  It is also difficult to smile while I’m still looking for that silver lining.

All in all, I still have a lot of things to work on.  But I’m still the stubborn procrastinator, and sometimes I think forever that will be.

Things change but people rarely do.