Jan 18 - 27 Update

Made some good progress this week. Feels good to accomplish some of these goals.

Learn Ilokano

• 3 (out of 5!) new phrases learned: mai mai sa "by yourself", away "farm", and sing sing put "kind/nice (person)"

Learn to cook a new meal each month

• Fried rice complete! Next.

Consume an average of 1800 Calories per day

• Accumulated about 13,050 Calories this week (~1864 Calories per day), bringing me up to a total of 39,250 / 657,000 for the year. Not too bad

Make Facebook App

• Decided it'll be a game. What kind of game? A simple turn-based "pick up and go" type of game.

Don't curse for 300 days

• Went 4 out of 7 this week (9 / 300 days). Blah. This one's so tough. I just can't help but blurt out a swear word when I do something wrong. E.g. I spilled some Powerade all over my cousin's blanket and said s*** without realizing it.

Learn 5 new piano/guitar songs

• Learned "Don't Stop Believin'" so that's 1 out of 5. Current playlist (subject to change): 100 Years, Faithfully, Umbrella

Read one book of the Bible each month

• Finished Judges. Liked the Gideon story. Next is Ruth but there's only 4 chapters to that, so I'll include the next book for February as well.

Jan 10 - 17 update

Not much to update this week.

Consume an average of 1800 Calories per week (26,200 / 657,000 total thru the year)

• Consumed about 1900 Calories per day this week. Friday our company had a pizza party for our quarterly meeting; Saturday, cousins and I went to O-Nami (great seafood buffet!) Went. All. Out.

Create Facebook app

• Need some ideas here. Have only been suggested creating a game. Can someone point me to fun Facebook apps out there?

Don't curse for 300 days (11 / 300)

• Went 6 / 7 this week. I just said the F-bomb a few minutes ago because I lost in COD6.

Learn 5 new piano songs (1 / 5)

• "A singer in a smoke-ay room..." It's stuck in my head now, but I can play it! Next up, 100 Years.
• My third song is Faithfully, also by Journey

Read one book from the Bible each month

• Started reading the book of Judges (which I think describes the stuff that happens after Joshua's death.) Chapter 7 so far.

This week, I really need to get going on the Bible reading. Still have to make some fried rice too! Running out of time this month fast.

Resolution progress update.

It's been about a week, and so far I've accomplished some of my sub-resolutions.

Learn Ilokano

• Learned mai-mai-sah, which means "by yourself"

Improve Tagalog by speaking a different sentence a day

• Saying hoy pare here and gutom na ako there
• Learned what pooki means!

Learn to cook a new meal each month

• Decided to cook fried rice some time this month. Shouldn't be too difficult

Find a new hobby

• I've been getting great suggestions from Facebook. Some of them include: photography, hang gliding, and painting. Still need to decide on one.

Befriend someone new

• I should just go and say hi to a stranger and invite him/her to a coffee one day.

Consume an average of 1800 Calories per day

• This one's tough. So far I've consumed about 10,200 Calories over six days, which is about 1700 Calories per day. (I'm pretty sure my estimates are off but that's okay!)

Read 5 new books

• Found two to read so far (thanks Facebook friends!): Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen, and Ender's Game by Orson Scott. Still need to get started.

Maintain budget of $40 per month for game related purchases

• used $40 out of $480 for the year. This includes my WoW subscription + a new optical mouse

Learn a new technology and implement it (software or hardware)

• gonna make a Facebook App. Pretty excited about this one!

Spend at least 20 minutes a day to walk the dogs

• I've been keeping up. Haven't missed a day yet.

Don't curse for 300 days

• Ack, probably my worst one. I've managed to go swear-free for only 4 days. Tough roads ahead.

Make money off investments

• Woohoo go BAC! Made ~$500 so far!

Learn 5 new songs for piano

• Here are two I've decided to learn: Don't Stop Believin', and 100 Years

Learn 5 new songs for guitar

• May as well learn the above two songs for guitar!

Teach Charlie new tricks

• I need to start soon!

Read a book from the Bible each month

• Need to start this one soon as well!

So far so good, I think. If you have suggestions to any of the above, drop a comment or leave something on my Facebook wall.

A few more

Four more:

1. Learn 5 new piano songs
2. Learn 5 new guitar songs
3. Teach Charlie (new dog) new tricks:
   • Stay
   • Rollover
   • Spin around
   • Beg
   • Dance
4. Read one book from the Bible each month

That's all. I'll try to keep you readers updated at least once a week. Wish me luck!

My first 2010 resolution..

..is to make a blog. Check. So far a good start to the New Year!

I figure if I quantify my goals, then it'll become much more achievable. Setting milestones to some of the items might help too.

Here's my list of things to do:

1. Make blog
2. Learn Ilokano
   
   • 5 new phrases/words
   • 10 new phrases/words
   • 20 new phrases/words
3. Improve Tagalog by speaking a different sentence a day
4. Learn to cook a new meal each month
5. Find new hobby
6. Befriend someone new
7. Consume an average of 1800 Calories per day (0 / 657,000 calories total for the year)
8. Read 5 new books
9. Maintain budget of $40 per month for game related purchases ($ 0 / $ 480 for the year)
10. Learn a new technology and implement it (software or hardware)
11. Spend at least 20 minutes a day to walk the dogs
12. Don't curse for 300 days (accumulated) (0 / 300)
13. Make money off investments
• $100
• $500
• $1000
• $2000
• $5000
14. Don't miss Church
15. Find a new job (or prospective job) by the end of the year (hope my co-workers doesn't read this!)
16. Buy own place (house/condo)

If anyone can recommend me a new hobby, new books, recipes, or anything to make my list even more precise lemme know!