The 2008 Resolution

Finally the long awaited 21st century is 9 years old. It seems funny, we were celebrating the Y2K, what 9 years ago. When i was not even in my high school. Time passes so quickly.

I just found this set of questionnaire somewhere on the cyberspace, so i decide to give it a try. It works amazingly good, try to reminiscing past events is a fun exercise.

1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
-Learn the way of honesty and being modest

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
-For me if you failed to plan, you planned to fail. So there are quite a few resolutions.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
-Yes.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
-No.

5. What countries did you visit?
-Turkey and Finland

6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
-Self confidence and a new laptop 🙂

7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
-15th August, date of move to Finland

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
–If getting admission in TUT is an achievement, than here it goes. Completed some project at work in very little time, when I say little I mean it, keeping in mind the extent of project and the delay the project had already suffered.

9. What was your biggest failure?
-As always considering this world and all the materialistic thing here as eternal and forever, hoping to acquire and gain all the material benefits of this life, not giving much to the society, not helping others when they are in need of help.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
-Not as such

11. What was the best thing you bought?
–Wrist watch.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
-AIESEC, Tampere. They are not friends, they are a family.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
–It’s a hard one, no one.

14. Where did most of your money go?
-When I was earning most of it goes to Pizza Hut, Nandos, KFC, Arizona Grill, Singapore Sling and of course NIKE .

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
-Getting accepted for admission in TUT and getting VISA after long and tiresome wait.

16. What song will always remind you of 2008?
-Namumkin-Junaid Jamshed, Boten Anna-Bass Hunter, Jungle Drum by Emilia Torrini, Minority-Green Day

17. Compared to this time last year,
I. Are you happier or sadder?
-Happier

II. Thinner or fatter?
–Thinner

III. Richer or poorer?
–Richer in terms of exposure and everything.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
–Managing my time.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
-Wasting my time.

20. Did you fall in love in 2008?
-No

21. How many one-night stands?
-What a joke, NIL

22. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
–No.

23. What was the best book you read?
-The Book of Numbers, Witness to Surrender, Alive

24. What was your greatest musical discovery?
–Junaid Jamshed.

25. What did you want and get?
-Visa for Finland

26. What did you want and not get?
-Laptop

27. What was your favorite film of this year?
–I am basically from the old school so I never like SCI-FI, unrealistic and super action+ adventurous movies. For me it is No Country for Old Man.

28. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
-Dinner with family and some shopping, bought new Arsenal Jersey. I turned 23.

29. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
–Earned some more credits at TUT.

30. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
–After arriving in Finland I learned fashion didn’t exist. You are best in what you do; you are a hero for your self. No new jeans, no new Shalwar Kameez, no new sweat shirts, no jackets, no nothing. Still you are the best model.

31. What kept you sane?
–Fear.

32. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
-No one.

33. What political issue stirred you the most?
–The Mumbai attacks and its aftermath, Pakistani Election and Mr.10% comments.

34. Who did you miss?
-Pakistan, Karachi and my family

35. Who was the best new person you met?
–This is a difficult one; I come to know so many new persons in this year courtesy of AIESEC that I am totally lost. Everyone is a gem in his own way; I have met some very crazy AIESECers this year, I have made friends from all over the world. I have learned so many new things from each and every one of them. It’s very hard to pick out one. If AIESEC, infact AIESEC Tampere is a person than he is the best new person I have met this year.

36. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008:
–Learn to respect the opinion of others, lover your country. Make your self as modest as possible and help others because the level of gratitude you get in return is rewarding enough and make you feel better.

Minority- Green Day