Killing time is wasting money, and vice versa. Though not really new for me, once again i have wasted more than four hours of my precious time waiting for the car pool ride , and with this more than 600 bucks on a crappy movie, greasy dinner, and an expensive overly sweet cup of almond mocha coffee. I know i vowed to be more careful with how i spend my hard-earned money, but wrong decisions led from one thing to another, and before i realized it, i was already throwing away that much for nothing, geesh. 

Arriving home past midnight, i was too pooped out and pissed to even think of what i am supposed to do(homework to give to my students? lesson plan?articles to write?). However, a promise is a promise. So here i am blogging. I have written something at the coffee shop while waiting, but i think i need to beef it up with research data to make it more substantial, thus making it a more-worth-reading material. It's three minutes past one, and i still have to prepare a test for tomorrow. Besides i still have to be up early for car pool ride again to minimize my daily fare expenses. Oh, well...Everything is okay. My life is going at its usual pace. I am no longer plagued by memories of the previous company i worked for--i miss my coworkers and the routine, really. I have finally moved on, albeit a little later than i intended. Time to call it a day and hit the sack. 

Out with the old, in with the new. In the Chinese calendar, 2012 won't be due until the 23rd of this month. But in the international calendar, today is already the 2nd day of January 2012. As with every change of the year, assessing how we lived our lives in the outgoing(In this case, it is already the past year.) year that culminates to our making resolutions in order to live better lives in the incoming year(which is now actually), is nothing short of typical. Enough of my explanations for now. Let us get down to listing my top five resolutions for 2012. 

Here they are:

• Blog daily. 
  

This is what i am doing now. I would no longer listen to the call of my comfy bed and spend a good deal of time dreaming my life away. Whether i am in the mood or not, i would make it a point to drag my butt out of the bed and force myself to blog. I want to become a better writer. Exerting sufficient effort to fulfill this ambition is required. Otherwise, it would just all come to naught. So be it. Regardless of the topic, i would blog and write. 

• Read at least one article daily and a chapter from one of my many books.
  

This would not be very hard. But still i was not able to fulfill this in the past year. As always, my moods got the better of me--and i have had enough of being a slave to my own moodiness. Really. 

• Get back on the diet track.
  

I need not talk about this. For my own health's sake and for the sake of improving my self-image and getting a bit more out my romantic relationship, i better make weight loss a dream come true any time this year. Either that...Oh, well, it is not an option or a choice i have to make but a responsibility. Something i owe to myself and God and my so-called life. 

• Not to mull over my grammatical errors excessively.
  

I think i'm too much of a tight ass writer who is more obsessed with writing faultlessly than writing well. So, to gain better control and keep that OC voice at the back of my head shut for good, i have to make a conscious effort not to read and edit my work more than once after finishing it. 

• Be more prayerful and always look on the bright side even if i'm all bloated and sulky because of PMS(exactly how i am today ooohhh).