1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
* Injections/catheterizations/watch a delivery (both normal and cesarean)

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
* No New Year's resolutions for me ever; only goals

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
* Uhm don't think so

4. Did anyone close to you die?
* Nope

5. What countries did you visit?
* Wala huhu! But I plan on going to other states next year wheee!

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
* my family! more friends! more blessings (hehe)!

7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
* October 8 - LOTR Symphony; October 17 -- Sean Astin signing; December 7 -- Alan Lee signing

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
* getting enough A's on my report card

9. What was your biggest failure?
* when I didn't get an A

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
* just colds

11. What was the best thing you bought?
* the ROTK Gift Set!

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
* Susan Roces

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
* Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

14. Where did most of your money go?
* DVDs

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
* watching the LOTR symphony, meeting Sean Astin and Alan Lee

16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
* "Into the West" by Annie Lennox

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? happier
ii. thinner or fatter? pretty much the same
iii. richer or poorer? poorer definitely (but richer in friends)

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
* take risks, enroll in subjects not included in the curriculum (ie take a language course)

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

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
* with my relatives

22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
* no

23. How many one-night stands?
* none

24. What was your favorite TV program?
* The Apprentice

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
* well we're not on speaking terms but I don't hate him

26. What was the best book(s) you read?
* The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Diary by Chuck Palahniuk, She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Griffin and Sabine series by Nick Bantock, 1602 by Neil Gaiman

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
* Vienna Teng

28. What did you want and got?
* ROTK gift set

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
* Hero

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
* dinner with my relatives; I turned 24

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
* if I had learned Spanish

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
* same old, same old

34. What kept you sane?
* going to the mall and watching movies, borrowing books from the public library, LOTR events

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
* Michael Vartan, Jonathan Bennett

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
* Philippine elections last May/US elections last November

37. Who did you miss?
my family and friends

38. Who was the best new person you met?
my classmates

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
* Not taking anything or anyone for granted

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
* No regrets / they don't work / No regrets / they only hurt