Happy New Year!

Folks, we're ten days away from 2005! Have you started on your Resolutions 2005 yet?

For 2005, I've scraped Mr. Right off my resolutions list - I think I've been through enough to decide what I don't want a man for some time. Prince Charming can actually be The Beast in disguise, and vice versa. Just reading in the newspaper this morning about the cowardly state football player groom who left his bride Norlida Abdul Rahman at the altar, gave a feeling of deja vu. But, at least in my case, I got an e-mail to explain the sms. But still! I guess The Gentlemen is a dying breed nowadays. God doesn't make them anymore...

There is no such thing as Mr. Right. You can only try to meet someone who makes you feel right, and being with him is the right thing to do - and everything just fit and fall into its place - and the universe conspires to make things right. That, currently, it's Mission Improbable, although not Mission Impossible. So I'll just focus on achieving whatever I want to achieve in life.

I discover that I can be equally happy with or without a partner. Hehehe...I will JUST BE!

Next year, on top of reducing my weight by 10% (it's a constantly challenging uphill battle, even more so as you go downhill), I'll improve on my speed by 50%, as well as my overall reliability and punctuality to 1,000 DPMO (defects per million opportunity, that's 0.1% and being human, I can't be anymore defectless than this!).

So, for a good early start, here's an early Happy New Year wish from me!

Personally, 2004 hasn't been a fantastic year for me, but an adventurous one, nevertheless, with some misadventures too. But hey, they say tough times don't last, tough people do! But having said that, I don't think we should look at our mistakes negatively.

We should look at our mistakes creatively and learn from it like an art - for creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, while art is knowing which ones to keep.

Coming out of 2004, I've learned many valuable lessons from my mistakes and experiences that have made me a little wiser and tougher than before. I hope!

Nonetheless, what is more important is that we become a better person by learning from our mistakes and experiences - and sharpen our learning curve with every year that we live. Nothing is constant in life, except for change - so we got to keep on moving.

Another thing I have learned is that it is important not just to LIVE and make a LIVING, but to BE ALIVE and to make a LIFE - that is, living a good life that's worth every breath that you take. Quoting Sir Winston Churchill: "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

On that note, I'm looking forward to 2005 and hope it would be a super fantastic year of greater achievements in life.

Hope our learning curve gets sharper in 2005!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005!

Cheers!

Naliza, Liza and Nel

No, I haven't acquired multiple personalities - I just have more than one term of endearment.