Happy New Year!!

Hey everyone!

I hope your new year was passed in style! This is the first time I spent New Year's Eve with friends instead of family - usually, I'm at a dinner party with family friends. Anyway, in my last post, I didn't review the resolutions I set myself for 2012, so I'll do a quick rundown here:

♥ Graduate with a 2.1

    - Achieved!

♥ Decide what I want to do with my life: score a job/get a vocational qualification/teach English abroad?

    - None of the above, eeek. If you could've told me that in a year's time I would be doing a PhD I would've laughed in your face, because in my own bittersweet words, "everyone knows how much I love chemistry". At that point in time, I wanted nothing more than to quit, that's how badly my year was going!

♥ Get some commercial awareness

    - Failed. I didn't even try this time.

♥ Become a better swimmer and master the front crawl

    - Failed. I think I went swimming once in 2012... :'(

♥ Continue with gym and try to lose body fat

    - Failed. I went to the gym a few times, but now that I'm at UCL I have to pay for gym which is a bit off-putting, oh well~

♥ Fix my skin so that it is not so dry

    - Still a work in progress, so 50%.

♥ Improve my foreign language skills laaaah~

    - Failed after a few months, I'm pretty disappointed that I didn't keep this one going but my degree was more important at the time.

♥ Learn how to cook ten new dishes to perfection

    - Congee, udon soup, miso soup, chicken Thai green curry, beef hotpot, potato and leek soup, kimchi fried rice, kimchi stew so 8/10... >_<:;

♥ Find a new style for myself

    - Erm, I'm still not sure what my style is to be honest.

♥ And live each day as if it is my last, with no regrets!

    - Kind of a silly one hehe.

Oh dear, I didn't complete many, did I? Well, here's to a fresh new start in 2013 and a fresh new (mostly) set of resolutions:

♥ Get published in academia.

♥ Go to yoga at least once a week.

♥ Explore London!

♥ Take up dancing classes.

♥ Learn to cook ten new dishes.

♥ Regain my level of fluency in Chinese.

♥ Finish writing one novel!

♥ Draw five new pictures.

♥ Make more effort to keep in contact with people, (write letters)!

♥ No more boys.

May your year be prosperous and filled with joy! :)

Yishi x