YEAR-ENDER SURVEY
I know it's a tad late but aliw eh :)

1. What did you do in 2003 that you'd never done before?
Hmmm.. something I did on April 8 and driving alone from Bicol to Manila (~7hrs)

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't make resolutions... I think

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yep, my best friend, Laryang!

4. Did anyone close to you die?
An officemate I worked with on the same project

5. What countries did you visit?
Was in Oregon the 1st half of the year

6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003?
Peace of mind and heart

7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
April 8 - changed my life forever

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Just staying afloat/alive amidst all my personal troubles

9. What was your biggest failure?
hmmm.. a failed relationship

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Had a major surgery

11. What was the best thing you bought?
The magic mic for my 'rents :)

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My younger sis (gave me strength when I was weak)

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Ahh.. MB and myself...

14. Where did most of your money go?
Good question.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
April 8

16. What song will always remind you of 2003?
Heaven

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Sadder, for the most part
ii. thinner or fatter? Fatter, hehe
iii. richer or poorer? Poorer, hehe

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Be more patient

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Crying and wallowing in sadness

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Spent it with my parents

22. Did you fall in love in 2003?
Hell yeah

23. How many one-night stands?
Sorry.. Not my style

24. What was your favorite TV program?
That Judy Ann/Robin teleserye (forgot na the title) while I was in the U.S. because it helped lessen my homesickness

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Not really

26. What was the best book you read?
Harry Potter (because it was the only book I finished, I think)

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Alice Peacock, Black-Eyed Peas

28. What did you want and got?
Hmmm.. my vacation, I guess

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Bad Boys II, just because I watched it with a special someone and it made me laugh hard

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I spent it at work, my then baby prepared a lovely dinner at home

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
If I had not spent more than half of it being sad

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003?
I just wear whatever makes me comfortable

34. What/Who kept you sane?
My friends and family; blogging

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Catherine Zeta-Jones in Intolerable Cruelty :)

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
The presidentiables (well not really an issue.. but then again)

37. Who did you miss?
MB

38. Who was the best new person you met?
MB

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003:
Love is not quite enough to keep two people together

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
"All the world just stopped now
So you say you don't wanna stay together anymore
Let me take a deep breath babe...
I don't believe you're leaving cause
me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream
I think it's that girl
and I think there're pieces of me you've never seen
Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen well...
You don't know the power that you have,
with that tear in your hand " - Tear In Your Hand by Tori Amos

and

"And now I'm serving time for mistakes made by another
In another lifetime

How long till my soul gets it right
Can any human being ever reach that kind of light" - Galileo by Indigo Girls