Alphabet of Plans 2.0

I made a list like this almost two years ago. A lot of things happened between the day I decided to write my goals and this day. I kept on changing my mind over one thing or the other. But then again, I believe making a list is helpful. It keeps track of my goals and what I have achieved so far—and also, the current status of my sanity.

Target duration: within 1-7 years

Plan A:

-Save some money, help my family

-Enroll in a Physics degree (or Applied Physics)

-Write in a respectable news organization about science

-Save some more money, buy a car, fund my parents’ retirement, help other family members if I can, travel

Plan B:

-Save some money, help my family

-Get a scholarship for a Science Journalism MA degree, apply and enroll

- Write in a respectable news organization about science (Dude, I’m actually thinking about New Scientist, Time, The Economist here.)

-Save some more money, buy a car, fund my parents’ retirement, help other family members if I can, travel

Plan C:

-Save some money, help my family

-Take a decent photography/photojournalism course

-Take subjects in science: Physics, Math, Biology

-Take MA in Media Studies (which should include a scholarship grant)

-Teach and write at the same time

-Create a small news organization specializing on science and technology

-Save some more money, buy a car, fund my parents’ retirement, help other family members if I can,  travel

Plan D:

-Save some money, help my family

-Take courses in Filipino, History, Physics

-Take MA in Media Studies or Journalism

-Build a Filipino news organization--Filipino broadsheet with other Journ friends (Hello to Paulo Tomacder. This is our dream.)

-Save some more money, buy a car, fund my parents’ retirement, help other family members if I can,  travel

And hopefully, within this year, or the next, I could:

-Buy (or be given) an MP3 player where I can also watch movies and play games (it should also have WiFi connectivity)

-Subscribe to The Economist, New Scientist, Reader's Digest, NatGeo, The New Yorker

-Buy extra battery pack, lens hood, wide-angle lens, zoom lenses for my Beau (camera)

I'm bouncing back, well at least, I'm trying.

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Pausing for a minute on life

First off, I tagged YOU because one, we had recently talked about this, I just have some further thoughts about it, and I’d like to know what you think about it and two, I think you won’t mind reading through my random thoughts (please? :-)).

Growing up has suddenly not become my thing since I reached 18. I found myself being obsessed with my childhood pleasures; toys, cartoons and children’s books. Maybe because I have read and reread and reread The Little Prince over and over again. (I haven’t gone back to my Peter Pan reading yet because of that). Maybe because I have over saturated my self from watching The Sound of Music almost 10 times. (I think I said 8). But nevertheless, I have not lost track of my age, nor what I should be doing and thinking about right now—career, life, future.

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I found Neverland

Yesterday, I saw three movies, City of Angels, Bedtime Stories and Finding Neverland. I'd like to take note of three related themes of those flicks.

For City of Angels, FREE WILL.

For Bedtime Stories, Marty, Skeeter's father said, "Your fun is only limited by your imagination."


And Finding Neverland says that we should never leave the child in all of us. Pretensions and fantasies are not there to remedy the problem, the sorrow we're feeling. But they are used to maintain that tiny glimmer of hope to make us stronger and keep monving on.

Sometimes, hopes are all we have. Tweet

Of airplanes, Neverland and Shainess' dreams

Happy new year!

I was too tired and much too sleepy yesterday to post an entry.

Sorry.

I posted an entry on my other site on my "plans, wishes and 'resolutions'" for this year and there were two things I keep remembering. The first one: my friends think I will really have a boyfriend this year and the other one is that my friend from Canada is inviting me to go and study there!

They say those who like flying over driving are more adventurous.

Well, I must be a real thrill-seeker! I've always wanted to fly since 6th grade! Tweet