Goal Check..Hello 2009!!!
I think I did pretty well ^________^..yay 2009. Happy new year everyone
September 14, 2008 GOALS (just to remind myself)
purple - started already
strikethrough - done
pink - done but will have to do again
URGENT and IMPORTANT
1) Study for comprehensive exams DONE and PASSED yay! 2010
2) Pass my two subjects this term woohoo
3) Start on my return service to UP - JUNE 2009
LONG TERM or at least until next year
1) Finish my MA
2) Finish my return service to UP
3) Learn Japanese (in preparation for when I do go to Japan..I WILL GO TO JAPAN! not now but I definitely will)
4) Stay in contact with friends and attend all important happenings as much as possible!!!
5) Be consistent in supporting family financially
6) another MA or a PhD - Reading or Japanese Pop Culture or maybe continue my Japanese Studies MA(not part of plans anymore) haha
7) fix my thesis proposal on YA literature on Rox Lee/Philippine animation
SHORT TERM
1. clean out my closet - 09.15.08
2. report for Psychology of Language Learning
3. research paper for PLL 12.13.2008
4. 29th International manila bookfair - buy books for tet and orchid - 09.16.08
5. Give mom a gift
6. buy sister a gift for bday
7. Go to LB and check out Ninya's apartment - might not need to - not needed
8. Talk to my principal and supervisor in LB
9. lunch with Ting 09.25.08
10. christmas wih Bluebirds - wasn't able to go :(
11. buy christmas gifts
12. open a unionbank account or reopen my bpi account (no need) 09.22.08
13. get module photocopies for PLL (130.00) - 09.16.08
14. have my photocopied books bound
15. Get my GSIS e-card 09.22.08
16. Fix my Philhealth card
17. dinner with Shirley
18. date with Carla
19. paper for foundations 12.15.2008
STUFF to WATCH for 2008
1) doramas for 2008
a. Maou - waiting for final episode - 09.23.08
b. Stand-up
c. Shabake - to download 2009
d. Yamada Tarou Monogatari
e. Zettai Kareshi
f. Proposal Daisakusen
g. Gokusen 1
h. Ryusei No Kizuna
i. Proposal Daisakusen 2009
2) other Jpop SCRAPPED
a. Never Ending Wonderful Story
b. 24 Hour TV- Arashi
c. Ie Ga Tooi (4 eps.) - done with ep. 1
d. Tensei Kunpu
3) Anime/Cartoons
a. Gundam Seed - halfway through
b. Howl's Moving Castle - so so beautiful
c. Avatar the Last Airbender - one last season 2009
d. Grave of the Fireflies
e. Ouran High School Host Club
f. Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo
4) Movies
a. Pan's Labyrinth - to buy DOWNLOADED
b. Mary Poppins - 01.01.2009
c. Cirque Le Soleil's Corteo
d. Black Rain
e. Ran
f. Enjo
g. Double Suicide
h. Woman in the Dunes
i. Minority Report
j. Labyrinth
h. Wall - E
i. Dark Knight
j. The Tiger and the Snow 2009
BOOKS TO READ for PLEASURE for 2008
1. Winter's Heart - Robert Jordan
2. Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
3. New Spring
4. Fragile Things
5. The Book Thief
6. The Sword in the Stone - TH White
7. The Nutcracker - 12.25.2008
8. I, Coriander
9. Ranma 12-19
10. Coraline
11. Dancing into the Light
STUFF TO BUY FOR 2008
1. Ohno Uchiwa - possibly for Christmas? 2010
2. Laptop cooler - November woohoo
3. printer - October 24 woohoo
4. Truth limited ed
OTHER PLANS NOT NECESSARILY FOR 2008
1) To watch
Kamen Rider Black
We Got Married - as suggested by Aichan
Inuyasha
Ranma 1/2
Cooking Master Boy
Akazukin Chacha
Flame of Recca
Spirited Away
Gunslinger Girl 12.31.2008
Gundam Seed Destiny
Gundam 00
Akira
Thundercats
The Snow Queen
Lord of the Rings (watch again!!!)
xxxholic Now on Season 2 -2010
Howl's Moving Castle
2. To read
The Best of Philip K. Dick
Triangle - Isaac Asimov
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
Tik-Tok of Oz
Wonderful World of Oz 2009
Autobiography of A Geisha - Sayo Masuda
Voices from the Street - Philip K. Dick
Seventh Son - Orson Scott Card
Wyrd - Orson Scott Card
Four Great Plays - Henry Ibsen
An Acceptable Time - Madeline L'Engle
Mists of Avalon - Bradley
Maracot Deep - Doyle
The Lost World - Doyle
The Lost Years of Merlin - TA Barron
Minority Report - Philip K. Dick collected stories
Year's Best Fantasy 5
The Silmarillon
The Road to Oz
3) To buy
A. BOOKS
1.Neverending Story
2. Crossroads of Twilight - Robert Jordan
3. Smoke and Mirrors
4. Tales of the Otori series finished with Book 1, 2009
5. all Philip K. Dick stories
6. Sandman series
7. Interworld
8. Tale of Genji
9. Oz books by L. Frank Baum - will have to post all the other Oz books by other authors in a separate list
a. Ozma of Oz
b. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
c. The Road to Oz
d. The Emerald City of Oz
e. The Patchwork Girl of Oz
f. Tik-Tok of Oz
g. The Scarecrow of Oz
h. Rinkitink in Oz
i. The Tin Woodman of Oz
j. The Magic of Oz
10. Le Morte d' Arthur
11. M is for Magic
12. A good copy of the Velveteen Rabbit 2010
13 Ranma 1/2 - 12-36 (bought 12-19)
14. Honey and Clover manga
15. Dune series
16. Collected Stories of HP Lovecraft
17. Coraline by Gaiman
18. Reader's Digest Anthology The World's Best Fairy Tales (if possible, 1967 ed)
19. My Name is Aram - William Saroyan (1940 edition)
20. Knife of Dreams
B. ACTION FIGURES
1. Sesshoumarou I now have a BIG one plus a happy meal version and a small one hehe 2009
2. Byakuya 2009
3. Gundam Unicorn
4. Kakali
5. Yoruichi
6. Rukia - I have a teeny tiny one that's so cute! hehe..
7. Hitsugaya
8. Near
9. Light
10. Urahara
OPTIONAL
1. Learn Chinese
2. Learn Bisaya
3. Put up an online store who would have thought?!
PLACES TO GO TO
1. Planetarium - this was my ideal date..but well. I will just go alone or with a good friend :P thanks...*secret* 12.30.2008 i have since decided that I STILL want to go to the planetarium..or go stargazing <3
2. Ayala Museum
3. National Museum
4. GSIS Museum
5. Sagada
6. Maskara Festival
7. Pagsanjan
8. Japan
9. Singapore
10. Hongkong
11. China
12. Davao (2009, only for a wedding) or anywhere in Mindanao
13. Chocolate Hills
14. La Mesa Dam
15. Ilocos
16. Ugu Bigyan's house - Tiaong, Quezon
17. Gen. Nakar, Quezon - beautiful beach :)
18. Baguio - been here so many times but will have to go again!!!
19. Sonya's Garden
20. That greek place in tagaytay - YUM
Hmm.. I think that's it for now. Will just add to this list..I don't think I'll be buying clothes for a long long time with this. LOL. Anyway, I won't buy them all this year. I have to keep everything balanced!
yosh. Have to take a bath and get ready for dinner. It's my mom's birthday tomorrow! ^__^