The 10 New Things I Did in 2013

I used to make a similar post every year before. A similarly themed post was actually my first blog post on Friendster many years ago (haha!), so I thought maybe I should make a list of the things I did for the first time last year.

(10) Host 6 teacher workshops in 3 cities in one month. I had a killer Q4 schedule and it was my first time to host a workshop purely for teachers. I'm glad I had a great team who made it easy for me. I certainly learned a lot in doing this project.

(9) Go to Lake Sebu. I've always wanted to go visit Lake Sebu and this was first my out of town trip after the surgery. The people in Lake Sebu were certainly very warm and friendly.

(8) Wear a tribal costume in an international summit. I have always wanted to attend an event which would allow me to proudly wear our national costume.

(7) Visit Bangladesh. I have always been curious about Bangladesh and I must say everything was just really different in Dhaka, the food, the people, the traffic. I hope if I ever get the chance to visit again I wouldn't get sick.

(6) Have 136 kids!

(5) Have heart surgery. More about this in my blog from Q1 2013.

(4) Be at my heaviest. Argggggghhhh, I gained so much weight in the second half of 2013 and it seems my metabolism has finally slowed down.

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(3) Try scorpion. I tried a tiny piece. Made me feel weird all over after.

(2) Visit Ho Chi Minh. I love the baguette Philip had me try!

(1) Color my hair! Red!

I know I won't be able to do extreme sports stuff anymore (like going on a zipline, white water rafting) but I hope to have the chance to experience a lot of new things in 2014. 

Crazy 8

Anne tagged me for this meme, I haven't done any meme for quite some time already so I thought this would be something to blog about, but I've done several "random facts", "things you didn't know about me" etc. memes so I thought I'd modify the tag a bit -

1. List eight (8) random facts about yourself.
2. Tag eight people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
3. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving them a comment on their blogs.

I don't just wanna do random facts... I wanna do 8 crazy random facts about me and these are things that drive me crazy or stuff I do that drive people crazy:

1. My desk is always in a state of organized chaos. Don't dare move anything coz I hate looking for things.

2. I am a pack rat. Okay, okay I've been trying to be less of a pack rat by targeting to fill-up one whole balikbayan box (the really big rectangular one) with old clothes. Goodbye to my favorite daster. Boohuhuhuhu. And I remember back in college I had this favorite sneakers. It already had a hole and was already yellowed with age, but I didn't want to dispose of it. So, I decorated it with three-dimensional glow-in-the-dark paint. My Mom stole it one day and I never saw it again. Huhuhu.

3. I have bags of all shapes, sizes, make, but I prefer using native bags. I can probably fill out another balikbayan box with old bags. Sheesh.

4. I had my closet painted bloody red. I like it, but my Mom almost fainted when she saw what I had done.

5. I like making people fat! Ask my former colleagues, friends, Miguel and Sweetie.

6. I hate disentangling knots. Yuck.

7. I love doing the dishes, but please take off the leftovers (paglilino). Euuw.

8. I love doing costings, projections, research and doing a full business plan, that's why I wanna study again and I can go on and on and on talking about insights from a research study I've done. Yeah, yeah, I know, they used to call me the company nerd. So? LOL. I don't mind, I love what I do.

I'm not tagging anyone, if you wanna do it... do it or leave a comment and lemme know 8 crazy things about you.