New Year’s Resolutions – the art of devising goals and aspirations for the year and failing miserably by the end that last year’s resolutions roll over to the New Year. At least this is my experience and if it isn’t the same for you – Kudos to you (teach me your ways!!!).

I know I sound like a failure already but I do try and keep my resolutions to at least January the 5^th!

Without further ado HAPPY NEW’S YEARS! 2015 – Year of the Goat, International Year of Light, Year of the Apple Watch. To be more specific the 15^th year of the 3^rd millennium, the 15^th year of the 21^st century and the 6^th year of the 2010s decade (thank you Wikipedia).

So many cute goats to choose from
on Google images wahhh!

So I thought I’d share you some of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2015 in the hope that they will inspire you to think more deeply and widely about your plans J  

1. Sprout some ABS –  Probably not as easy as sprout but this has nothing to do with Kendall and Kylie Jenner’s recent instagram bomb on everyone’s self confidence....ok maybe a little but hey, they worked for it and its time I made a more serious attempt so kudos to them!!

2. Get back into sports – I avoided joining sports clubs at uni because it just wasn’t organised like high school plus I didn’t want to look like a complete rookie amongst the elites! So this is the year I get back into Touch football and Netball, improve my stamina and of course make more friends!!

3. Don’t be lazy to go out – sometimes I talk myself out of social events with my friends! Don’t worry, I still go and have heaps of fun with no regrets but I just don’t know where the dreading feeling comes from!!! Either way its nicer to get out and be more worldly in your city!
4. Not use study as an excuse not to read – enough said cause I have a whole list of books to get through starting with "The VOGUE FACTOR" by Kristie Clements!

5. Be more relaxed, stress free, positive vibes - I sometimes over react and I know it! So this year I'm trying not to over inflate situations! What's the point of added headache and conflict?!

6. Look after my skin - this is what I always dreaded....a morning and evening face routine (10 mins everyday that I convince myself I don't have - pathetic I know)! Instead of always complaining about my skin maybe I should show it more love before I have to start using anti-aging creams by 23!! So exfoliates and SPF moisturizers come out = unholy beasts (dirt and oil) begone!

Pictures like these make me relax and feel good! Please tell
me you do this too or is this just me taking things too far? :

7. Read the news more often – not in a boring “let’s check out Business Daily” (no offence) but reading fascinating stories about advancing technology, science, NASA’s new projects, World News, stories capturing Human Nature and Art. You know, broaden a bit from the TV and entertainment news : P

8. Read more about World History – I never studied Ancient or Modern History in senior year and neither will it pop up in my course anytime soon but I always wanted to spend hours reading source after source on an endless tail of intriguing historical figures, events and decisions that shatter the empires and nations and the rebuilding of civilizations. I learnt that you kind of need an appreciation of the past to guide you in the present.

I came across a gallery for pictures and stories of the
 amazing human nature - worth a Google cause i didn't save the source

9. Have a FEEL GOOD morning routine - I feel like a grub when I sleep in so I'm usually up and very hungry within the hour! I always start with a cool seasonal brekkie of muesli and fruit in summer or a fruity porridge in winter! Either way it wakes me up, makes me less grouchy and gives me the energy boost to start on my errands/tasks for the day!!

Sadly his can be me in the mornings with hair on
point as well!!

So I know what you're thinking - you must suck so much at your New Years resolutions that this is probably an accumulation of 10 years and maybe your right! I'm hardly a perfect human being (don’t we all fancy ourselves one) and I'm still looking for balance and a sense of self accomplishment, satisfaction and self belief!

Good luck in the new year! New slate and new memories to be made so get your lazy butts off the computer and  couches under the aircon or heater (as  painful as this is for both of us) and get involved in life, new friends, new challenges, new experiences you an tell stories of! 

Introductions

To whomever it may concern,
Today is the 30^th of September, no 1^st of October, no the 2^nd of October. What I mean to say is that I have been thinking a lot lately about finally starting a blog. Even to myself, the motives behind this seem unclear and maybe that has instilled in me that indecisiveness and hesitation. A drop of the idea has had a silencing rippling effect but more closely looms the knowledge that my life would soon become a cycle of endless work and responsibilities. That is, before I like most before me, condemn myself to what I call the serious adult world.

I’m hoping to discover more about myself even and hopefully immortalize a younger, happier self who enjoys the sun on her back, the flowers through her fingers, the grass through her toes- one who can spend a whole day outdoors without guilt of responsibilities, who won’t feel hunger because she  spends hours reading books and poems on the little wooden stool on the veranda and to never feel absolute boredom because she is always enjoying the company of friends and families without wondering if things could be the same as before or constantly checking the time.

Well this first entry was more depressing than I anticipated. But that is not what I meant at all. I want to collect all the nifty things on this blog, daily inspirations, things that make me happy like baking and trying new recipes (because the best things are homemade) and new experiences and hopefully others can relate. Perhaps this is out of boredom but I should like to think that there are people who are the same as you or possess facets of your own self- parts of people that you often can’t meet through conversation (because don’t we all rush nowadays).

Another reason is to feel good that you have inspired others, that there are people like you who are crazy enough to want to read (and at that appreciate?!) what you have to say without me even knowing you.

So I think this is what they call a lifestyle blog – for the one’s that can’t decide what they want to do. I did a quick Google and one result was that lifestyle blogs let you write “whatever *bleep* you please”. I don’t mean to bore you with the happenings of my life because I can guarantee you not much happens as I should like.

Unfortunately I can’t even sell myself as one who is exotic, worldly or a "Londoner” as appealing as that may sound. But rather I think way too much about things, like to cook a little too much and will never be able to ride a skateboard.

There are so many parts of me that want to be a fashion blogger/designer, YouTube sensation (don’t we all), Heston Blumenthal (except with more hair), British bake off’s next champion (not even British but I love the British version of the show), an author (homage to all the great teen fiction writers who have made an adventure of my nearly ending teenage years), poet, make-up artist, interior designer, movie/food/book critic and Karlie Kloss (even Heston is more realistic ). 

So I guess the plan is to infuse all these unlikely aspirations in different ways into my blog as a way of “living” these dreams and lead a little more than an “ordinary” life (extraordinary is stretching it).