New Year Resolutions

Here we go again. How time flies! It's that time of the year again where I pause to evaluate my life in the past year and think how best to live it in the next!

Next year, my kids won't be in any 'crucial exam year'. How pathetic that I need to see my life in that perspective but it's true. My girl's done with her 'O' level exams and my boy will be in sec. 2. Yes, I may have to poke him every now and then cos it's streaming year (2011 will define if he goes to the Arts or Science stream in 2012). But still, I think there's room for what I aim to do.

I aim to do more short trips here and there with hubby. Every time I am on leave on a working day and I see couples (usually retirees) enjoying breakfast together, I wonder if Mike and I will live to see the day.
Morbid as it seems, I look around and see people here today and gone tomorrow. I cannot wait too long to seize the day with him. It had better be now. I know married couples usually wait till they've retired before travelling by themselves (without kids in tow) but I don't want to wait till it's too late. In the context of an average income earner in Singapore, I don't see myself retiring any time soon unless I strike the big one during the Chinese New Year Toto Hong Bao draw in 2011! Therefore, I am going to lead a more relaxed life while I can.

I may not have achieved all I set out to do in 2010 but God willing, there's always 2011.

I don't want to give myself more stress than life is already dishing out to me.
So in 2011, I hope to:
1) draw & paint
2) go on short trips with my hubby

Yep, no fancy big goals. Just simple ones!

Hope you all have a Happy New Year!