2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

Didn't make any resolutions last year and will not make any for the next year although I'll be jotting some goals I'm hell bent on achieving this year.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

Nope.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

My aunt (lung cancer)

5. What countries did you visit?

Not country but a city -- Chicago -- nevertheless I think this should count since it's a totally different environment from what I'm used to

6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003?

Self-confidence -- no more of that crippling self-doubt, of being scared most of the time, of chickening out.

7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

December 16 -- the day I went to Chicago and stayed up until the wee hours of the morning just to see ROTK

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Going to Chicago all by myself and staying there for ~21 hours -- not to mention walking along the cold, deserted streets of Chicago

9. What was your biggest failure?

Still a bum

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Nope

11. What was the best thing you bought?

Best thing? Well there's my digicam, my mp3 player, and the LOTR book with bookends set.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

Mine!! Heehee.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

A friend of mine.

14. Where did most of your money go?

Err gadgets mostly. Oh all right, LOTR stuff.

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

The release of Return of the King last Dec 17!

16. What song will always remind you of 2003?

Christina Aguilera's The Voice Within

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:

i. happier or sadder? Happier, to a degree

ii. thinner or fatter? Fatter (darn)

iii. richer or poorer? Poorer (waah)

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

Be more sociable.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?

Being scared most of the time and of not believing in my own strengths

20. How will you be spending Christmas?

With my Lola and my aunt's family

22. Did you fall in love in 2003?

Yes (or I think I did)

23. How many one-night stands?

Zilch.

24. What was your favorite TV program?

Tarzan hehe.

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

No.

26. What was the best book you read?

The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Oh another book? Well it would have to be 10 books -- it's the Sandman by Neil Gaiman.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?

My portable mp3 player!

28. What did you want and got?

To go to the Chicago Line Party!!

30. What was your favorite film of this year?

Need I say it again? Of course it's Return of the King! Hands down!

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

Birthday? Hmm.. spent it with my cousins and the rest of our extended family in Giordano's -- an Italian restaurant whose pizzas are MMM-HMMM delicious. And I was 23.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?

NOT being a bum

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003?

Fashion? What fashion??

34. What/Who kept you sane?

The internet! Haha.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

Travis Flimmel of the Tarzan (un)fame

36. What political issue stirred you the most?

FPJ running for president. Oh puhleez.

37. Who did you miss?

My family and friends.

38. Who was the best new person you met?

People -- Angel, Jax, Hec, Dane, Vei, Pia

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003:


To believe, to have faith in one's own strengths.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:

Home is behind.

The world ahead.

And there are many paths to tread

Thru shadow to the edge of night

Until the stars are all alight

Mist and shadows, cloud and shade

All shall fade.

All shall fade.

-- Bilbo's walking song in FOTR and Pippin's song in ROTK

and

Why do you weep?

What are these tears upon your face?

Soon you will see

All of your fears will pass away

Safe in my arms

You're only sleeping.

-- Into the West by Annie Lennox, ROTK OST

Survey from Euniq.