2010 Year-End Survey: Fashion Concept, Achievement, New People

1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before? Got my clothes professionally altered, had deep-fried cheesecake, had izakaya with a bunch of people, helped out at SERVANTS, walked at Ambleside, pulled a "Jon" in leaving one event early to bus late to another, went to the Fireside Cheesecake Café in Surrey, had falafel, and had red velvet cheesecake / candy cane fudge cheesecake. Yes, 2010 was the year of CHEESECAKE!

2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Didn't really make any, so there aren't any to break.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Grace...

4. Did anyone close to you die? No... although I fully expect this space to be filled next year. :(

5. What countries did you visit? NONE.

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010? Someone special, a better understanding of certain situations, and maturity. Recycled answer, but it still applies...

7. What dates from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

Jan. 1 (watched MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE / HOWARD THE DUCK / ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST at Nathan's with Christon, his brother Clement, Jon, Harmony, Isabel, Jeremy, Eric, Jen, and Randal)
Jan. 8 (skipped MissionsFest in favor of attending Billie's 20th birthday party, then slept over in Coquitlam!)
Jan. 17 (watched the 24 premiere with Christon, Eric, and Steph)
Jan. 25 (Dave cooked for the FIRST TIME at a Sunday Dinner - no thanks to the unintentionally salty salad, though! TRINIDAD!)
Feb. 7 (went out for lunch with Dave / Harmony / Dianne / Wesley / Jen / Christon at the Angel Café - it was pretty good!)
Feb. 8 (hung out with Auntie Ying at Lougheed Mall, and had deep-fried cheesecake... FINALLY bought sweatpants!)
Feb. 12-28 (the Olympics hit town, so I was totally up for free concerts - OUR LADY PEACE AND HAWKSLEY WORKMAN, among others?!)
Feb. 15 (decided to make a stand again!)
Feb. 16 (my LJ was largely inaccessible for a week... development team finally patched it, said Support)
Mar. 2 (got all the Olympics mascots, and learned that Frances and Mel had given their second son a GOOD name, Isaac!)
Mar. 5 (hung out with Auntie Ying at my place - it was good!)
Mar. 7 (the church's 35th anniversary - had to eat lunch with a certain person, but meh)
Mar. 15 (Grandma turned 90!)
Mar. 20 (I thought I had a good CL reply as regards a new place, but the lady owned a huge dog... NO GO!)
Mar. 24 (Harmony's birthday dinner... I got to transit home!)
Mar. 25 (Corey went to Taiwan again, this time for a year or so to teach... the original school screwed him over!)
Mar. 27 (saw Jon's band - The Engine and The End - perform a gig at Holy Trinity church... good to see Dilys again!)
Mar. 28 (went out to lunch at the Reef with Dave and others... pretty good stuff!)
Apr. 11 (Richie's farewell - he was going to Calgary again!)
Apr. 15 (hung out with Steph, Angela, Ceci, Jon, and their friend Silas - watched the Canucks win against the L.A. Kings in Game 1 of the playoffs, then went for some izakaya at Kingyo)
Apr. 16 (was spontaneous for once, and had a dinner with Wesley / Dave / Dianne / Christon at Hawkers - good times!)
Apr. 17 (went to Joe Yu's wedding)
Apr. 20 (Auntie Ying treated me to a noodle house near Aberdeen)
Apr. 30 (hung out with Billie in Richmond - hot and sour soup rules!)
May 24 (the JACK BAUER finale at Steph's house with a bunch of people)
June 4 (hung out with Auntie Ying at Boston Pizza, but was REALLY stoked for a hangout with Dave Wong soon afterwards - Ambleside, lots of eclectic conversation, humor, Michigan Noodle Shop, Twinkle, Park Royal Village, and more!)
June 5 (Andrea and Chuck's wedding)
June 26 (Megan's baby shower and the Awana BBQ)
July 2 (the postponed Canada Day barbecue)
July 5-11 (Teunis was over for a week before heading to California - crepes, Fireside Cheesecake Café, apples / potatoes / carrots, the dollar store, BABYLON 5, Surrey, and more!)
July 8 (farewell BBQ at Jon and Harmony's old place)
July 10 (BAD MOVIE NIGHT 3 at Daniel's new place... Troll 2, Warrior of the Lost World, clips of Love Story 2050 (Bollywood!) and
Equilibrium, Auto Tune, Video Sift, memes, and Double Rainbow!)
July 11 (watched the Holland-Spain World Cup final at Steph's - DIVING!)
July 13 (hung out with Chrystal in Richmond again in the evening so she could take the Canada Line!)
July 14-Aug. 9 (Teunis was here again before going to Robin's - video games, respectful co-existence, Yaohan mall shopping, church, lunch with Christon at a ramen place, interesting foods like falafel, and more)
July 16-17 (Billie and I finally had a Richmond sleepover!)
July 30 (Deb and Dylan gave me Uncle John's Gigantic Bathroom Reader, which replaced Uncle John's Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader #12 and Uncle John's Giant 10th Anniversary Bathroom Reader... a few days later, I gave those and an extra copy of Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader #22 to Teunis)
Aug. 5 (had physical freedom for TWO YEARS exactly - YAY!)
Aug. 6 (Grad Banquet 2010)
Aug. 7 (saw Inception with Teresa and Henry - interesting movie, which made us question reality with its ambiguous ending!)
Aug. 8 (JANDEK and a Sunday Dinner... plus the WORST TIMING for an emergency EVER!)
Aug. 14 (Grad Banquet 2009... HOLY MO-FO and BEEF JERKY UNDERPANTS!)
Aug. 19 (hung out with Vanessa H. while she ran errands - saw a Caribbean store in New Westminster which reminded me of Dave Wong)
Aug. 20 (met Auntie Ying and her mom for lunch at the Spicy Court Restaurant, then had a Fellowship BBQ later that night!)
Aug. 25-27 (volunteered with VBS for a few days - interesting kids!)
Aug. 27 (learned that Mr. Creep would no longer be with us - YAY! WE'RE RID OF EVIL!)
Aug. 29 (had a Sunday BBQ at Eric's - met Lisa, and Teunis' friend Jordan... also saw Robin for the first time in a couple years!)
Sept. 3 (finished backdating ten months' worth of Blogger posts, mainly for my and Dawn's sake)
Sept. 5 (went to the Richmond Night Market with Nate, Jeremy, Wesley, his Calgary friend Michelle, and Christon)
Sept. 12 (went to De Dutch Pannekoek House with Eric's family, quite unexpectedly!)
Sept. 14-24 (Teunis was here again briefly from Robin's before going to Rhiannon's - I got to experience the blessing of spending my birthday with him here for the second year in a row!)
Sept. 15 (my mom had a dinner combining my birthday and Nathan's farewell at a Richmond Pho place)
Sept. 17 (celebrating my birthday - long personal conversations with Teunis, funny videos, Fellowship, and bubble tea at Tea Team)
Sept. 19 (Ray's party to celebrate his coming back here for a couple days!)
Sept. 22 (Mandy - a_phoenixdragon - unfriended me after FIVE YEARS! SO SAD!)
Sept. 26 (Dave Wong surprisingly made an appearance at church; I went to Burgoo with Jeremy and Eric afterwards)
Oct. 2 (Jason and Karen's wedding!)
Oct. 3 (Sunday Dinner celebrating Christon and Jeremy's birthdays... nobody was in the mood for it because of Pastor John's SHOCKING RESIGNATION NEWS!)
Oct. 9 (Calla and Stanford's wedding)
Oct. 17 (Phil and Grace became parents to baby Micah)
Oct. 26 (hung out with Steph and Lisa after visiting a sleeping Grandma in the respite centre - pasta dinner and ice cream at Marble Slab!)
Oct. 31 (watched a bunch of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT episodes that I'd never seen before at Steph's with her, Lisa, Christon, Jon, Harmony, Jen, Randal, Eric, Patricia, Jeremy, and Albert... also led little Mattias - a new big brother to baby Marcus - upstairs by the hand for the first time!)
Nov. 1 (had a dinner at Steph's with her, Lisa, Jon, and Harmony)
Nov. 10 (CHINESE ERIC IS BACK IN TOWN!!!!!!!)
Nov. 14 (hung out with Billie in Richmond (since I lost my bus pass - otherwise, Metrotown)
Nov. 17 (FINALLY hung out with Chinese Eric, and met his sister Erica... ALSO GOT THE NEW LAPTOP WITH HUGE KEYS!)
Nov. 21 (got the international cable hookup for the laptop, and then Chinese Eric and I went to Jon's annual Birthday Extravaganza at Jeremy's)
Nov. 26 (Jon's surprise birthday party at SERVANTS, the day where I almost KILLED myself leaving their second house - stupid night vision and steep steps! - and watching the modern OCEAN'S ELEVEN at Dylan and Deb's since the original was too slow-paced)
Dec. 12: My mom's neighbor Barbara was killed by the recycling truck! :(
Dec. 17: HAD THE MOST DISAPPOINTING NEWS EVER... MR. CREEP IS BACK! UGH! WE CAN'T EVEN HAVE THE CHRISTMAS SEASON WITHOUT HIM!
Dec. 18: Went to Chinese Eric's to watch a hockey game, and talk about lots of personal stuff. I was also a test psychological subject for Nathan!
Dec. 19: Went to my parents' place for a "Celebration of Life" for Leslie Nielsen - SPY HARD and AIRPLANE! Grandma could also get something out of the movies, thanks to visual humor! Yay for Chinese Eric's being there, too!
Dec. 22: FINALLY finished a whole bunch of posts which I needed to do for my own peace of mind. :D
Dec. 25: Went to my parents' place again, this time for Christmas Dinner. Thank goodness for Nate / REN AND STIMPY! (Mom: "What is THIS?!?!?!" Hahahaha!)
Dec. 31: Rumors abound of hot pot at Jeremy's - we'll see later in the week!



8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Seeing someone for what they really are.

9. What was your biggest failure? Budgeting, just like always!

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Not really, although I did almost kill myself going down a crazy set of steps!

11. What was the best thing you bought? STORAGE BOXES!

12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Chinese Eric, Teunis, white Eric, and Corey.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? No comment.

14. Where did most of your money go? Food and the bank.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? CHINESE ERIC COMING BACK TO TOWN! :D

16. What song will always remind you of 2010? Too many songs out there!

17. Compared to this time last year, you are:
i. happier or sadder? Happier.
ii. thinner or fatter? The same.
iii. richer or poorer? Richer.

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

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

20. How will you be spending Christmas / Hanukkah? Not sure.

21. What was the most embarrassing thing that happened to you in 2010? Almost killing myself on that set of steps exiting SERVANTS.

22. Did you fall in love in 2010? Not really.

23. How many one-night stands? Zero.

24. What was your favorite TV program? Random stuff, haha.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Yes. (always that answer...)

26. What was the best book you read? Too many books... don't ask me! :P

27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Not sure.

28. What did you want and get? NEW LAPTOP, thanks to Chinese Eric!

29. What did you want and not get? To be out of this apartment!

30. What was your favorite film of this year? Inception was probably the ONLY 2010 film I saw, haha.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? Had a LONG PERSONAL CONVERSATION with Teunis, went to Fellowship, and had bubble tea with a bunch of people at Tea Team afterwards. As for my age, I'm 34 now.

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

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010? I didn't have a fashion concept, at all. :P

34. What kept you sane? The unconditional love of my friends. :)

35. Which celebrity / public figure did you fancy the most? Nobody, as usual.

36. What political issue stirred you the most? Not really any at all....

37. Who did you miss? Chinese Eric in Hong Kong, Teunis up north, Andrea and Chuck in Toronto, Nathan in the UK...

38. Who was the best new person you met? Not sure.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010: Almost everyone has some worth to them.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: Can't think of one right now.