twenty eleven

I never really make New Year resolutions. To be honest I don't really make New Year a big deal. Yesterday was just another day. Last night I stayed at home and just watched TV with Sam, Wen Chean and Duncan, until midnight.

But then this morning I thought of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary and Julie Powell's Julie and Julia, so I decided to blog my way through 2011. Not only will I write a blog entry everyday before midnight, I will also:

• get a job
• graduate with a First
• take a photo everyday
• learn a new recipe every week
• shed the michelin tyre around my waist that had come into existence since the beginning of the last decade (although I must confess I just ate a piece of Wen Chean's brownies - the best ever!)
• go to the gym five times a week
• eat an apple a day
• eat no red meat
• save up £1500 for travelling (right now I'm choosing between InterRail-ing in Europe...or North Korea?)
• drink no alcohol
• drink nothing fizzy

So here are my resolutions.

In Renee Zellweger/Bridget Jones's words:

I've decided to take control of my life, and start a diary, to tell the truth of Bridget JonesVivian C., the whole truth.

And yes I have eaten an apple and taken a photo (of the apple).

I do promise to take more interesting photos (and not with my stupid phone)...

I guess in someway I decided to blog everyday this year 'cause somewhere inside my mind I want to be a good writer (obviously not wanting to become a writer as a career path or whatever). I just want to see whether I can write about my mundane life and make it sort of witty/entertaining in words. Honestly, ever since I came back from Japan my life has been going downhill. As depressed and pessimistic as I am right now (the past month has been absolutely crap), I might just one teeny bit of hope for something better this year.