- Became a full-fledged World of Warcraft addict.
- Became a member of 3 teams at work: ICMS, Testing Competency, and Lotus Notes Enhancement.
- Met new people: ICMS, Testing, Japes and his friends, Aldwin, Val, the Lotus Notes people.
- Lost team mates in both ICMS and Testing teams.
- Bonded with Geviv while doing PL and PLI. And no, those 2 projects aren’t at all related, despite the similar acronyms.
- Ate a LOT. Discovered new places to eat, mostly thanks to Our Awesome Planet. Gained a lot of weight because of food trips.
- Ate at Pepper Lunch almost every weekend for like, 2 months straight.
- Broke up with my boyfriend.
- Became addicted to plurk.
- Took multiple trips to Tagaytay and to The Boutique.
- Went on a blind date.
- Fell in love with Japes.
- Attended two weddings.
- Maxed out a card for the first time.
- Played board games again! Yay! Thanks to the Jolly Hive.
- Played a lot of Rock Band (1and 2) thanks to the Jolly Hive too.
- Attended a fun/fund run without sleep. Didn’t run though. Hahaha!
- Built my first small form factor PC. But it isn’t mine (boo!). It was just my first time building a SFF.
- Discovered Subaru.
- Saw the Eraserheads again in concert.
- Managed to control my temper.
- Got blocked when I attempted a company transfer.
- Got blocked when I attempted a job transfer.
- Laughed a lot, cried a lot, fought with Japes a lot.
- Got into Bikram Yoga.
- Started a love-hate relationship with Civ4.
- Got Japes into WoW – and created a monster! Huhuhu….
- Discovered my selosa side.
- Stayed in love.
No regrets. It was a year of chalking it all up – the ups and downs – to learning experience. The Dickens quote in his A Tale of Two Cities seems to sum up 2008 most accurately:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way."
Here’s to a better 2009!
