So let’s make a list – in no particular order. I hope I can list down everything (with me not having a planner or diary this year and have not written much even if I wanted to) that I’m grateful for in 2017. Here goes…
- having witnessed the most touching wedding I’ve been to. A wedding that I knew both the groom (my team manager) and bride (my senior specialist in some states) and I kind of knew their love story.
- outgrown my fear of dogs, mostly, but not 100%. It was because of the first trip (Potipot), that I love having a pet walk and always follow you when walking and even lick your face!
- somehow learned to swim.
- climbed Mt. Ulap and with heavy backpack at that! But I guess I won’t repeat it.
- got to watch three musicals this year: Wicked, West Side Story and Sound of Music! 🙂 and one local musical: Sa Wakas. 🙂
- finally experienced what it’s like to watch a film alone (La La Land) that I cried alone in the theater
- booked that one way ticket to Osaka alone.
- started to learn watercolor
- I got promoted in work coupled with lots of workload and issues
- went to a lot of beaches this year: Potipot Island, Pagudpod, Apo Reef & Pandan Island, Puerto Galera, Puerto Princesa and Kalanggaman Island and two places in CAR: Mt. Ulap and Buscalan Village
- had a surprise birthday greeting from my team MF3 that I was really surprised to props to them – they’re the sweetest!
- crossed San Juanico Bridge on foot!
- Indochina backpacking trip finally materialised
- saw the Angkor Wat amidst the heat
- got inked – hardest decision ever and realised some mistakes you live with your life
- John Green released a new book!
- a lot of wonderful korean dramas this year but Because This Life is Our First
- gazillion things to be thankful about the Osaka-Kyoto-Nara trip
- redeemed myself in December tax return preparation after that November fiasco
- different trips with different people in different places
- honest to goodness teambuilding stories
- champagne to end the year
I don’t know if I’ve written everything that I am thankful for in 2017 but this is what I remember. 2017 feels like a comfortable place, a resting haven, an escape that I didn’t want to end or get out of. It was so amazing and awesome it feels like a dream though not all good things because 2017 also had its downs, but overall it was awesome and wonderful and a fitting thing as this year is the year I decided to take a break and be free of all the things I always do and then I got different results. Some, I don’t want but that’s the price I have to pay besides not knowing is good – because not knowing means you’ll be surprised. You’ll just have to know if it’s good or bad.
Awww that’s so many achievements!! I will also learn how to swim one day!!!
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Thanks for your comment Tofu 🤗 Looking forward to when you’ll learn to swim one day! ✌🏼 You can do it!
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