003 | Thu. Jan 03, 2008

A Haircut.

Today’s early-riser process was better than yesterday’s. I didn’t feel sleepy the whole day. I got up at 6 am, and went out for a chilly walk with my dad whose New Year’s resolution is to exercise every other day. I took a few photographs in the park where we walked but unfortunately none of them turned out well.

I was home the entire day doing nothing except surf the internet, wash dishes and eat. What a day. My friend from back in high school did call though. They were going to cook tamales tomorrow for lunch and wanted me to eat with them. That was nice — I havent seen that friend in ages. Couldn’t go though because they live around 1 hour’s drive and I don’t drive. Rather unfortunate.

If you wanna know how I look, that is me — having my haircut courtesy of my mom. That was probably the most exciting part of the day (hey saving $8 on a haircut is always good rigth?), aside from the phone call.

I just found out, that Obama won the Iowa caucus. I don’t know what to say except that its getting pretty interesting.

Ill be sleeping at the same time — bout 11-12 pm.

Till tomorrow!!

002 | Wed. Jan 02, 2008

I copied this post from its original source for purposes’ sake.

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The Old Man in the Bus Stop

I woke up today and stuck to my schedule — 6 am. It must be really hard to get used to this early-riser lifestyle because my eyes have been very heavy the entire day. Tried to keep myself busy for the most part of the morning. I finally got a legitimate excuse to go outside the house and walk around — I had to go to the bank.

I left home at 11:00 am and went to the bank which was thankfully close to Barnes and Noble where I spent the next 4 hours floating around. I skimmed over two books, then floated over to Michael’s Art and Crafts Store where I was really tempted to buy a set of markers. I didn’t! Thats two resolutions for the day!

Got back home at 4:15 pm in a bus full of smelly middle and high school kids just out of class. Took the Old Man in the Bus Stop photo while waiting for the bus.

Also, I just fixed some loan application information about 15 minutes ago. 3rd resolution!!

Good start right?

Oh and I don’t like the photo I put up — the post “streets of LA (…well the Grove on Beverly) but tell me what you think about it?

I’ll probably stay up till 11 or 12 then sleep.

001 | Daily Street Photography — Photo Journaling 2008 onwards

As you some of you know, I do street photography — streetfotografy.wordpress.com. There, I decided to keep a journal as one of my ways of keeping track of my New Year’s Resolutions. Here are the New Year’s Resolutions.

In an effort to stay organized, I moved my daily journal to this blog to keep it separate from all my other street photography posts.

New Year’s Resolutions

I used to keep a journal. I was never any good at it because I used to write down all my complaints and thoughts and nothing actually that was about the day. In the beginning of December, I read that journal and decided to throw it away. Goodness. It was junk.

So that I will be held accountable for all my New Year’s resolutions, I decided to keep an online journal, journaling my successes (and failures) of keeping to my New Year’s Resolutions. It won’t be some philosophical crap that I used to write in my other journals. Just simple what I did today and a little thought or two.

Of course I will keep posting {street} photography daily… along with my journal entries. We’ll see how well I could keep to my resolutions right? So here are my resolutions:

• I love to lead. I am very active on campus and I don’t stay put in one place or another (unless I am sleeping). This year I will try to be a Silent Leader — a leader’s opinion counts less than the team’s opinion — a lot less. It is very difficult to be able to get the opinions of everyone in a team so I will focus on that this year.
• Many people have told me that rising early leads to a better and more productive day. I’ll try that. It is also healthier according to some. Starting tomorrow, my day starts at 6 a.m.
• My grades last fall semester was not their best although I studied a lot — and I mean a lot. So I’m thinking that it’s not studying harder — rather studying smarter. I’ll follow http://www.studygs.net/ then for this. Lets hope this works.
• To go along with studying I guess, is class participation. People keep telling me to sit up front during lectures so that I can participate more. I never listened to them. I will find out if that really works this year.
• Regarding money, I have never been any good at keeping it. I will work on that too.
• Finally, I guess every college student’s resolution is that I will not procrastinate. I want to laugh at myself for actually adding this in but it cannot be helped.

Well thats it for now!! Its a new year and its time to start fresh and new. Right now, I am good as gold!

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