New Year's Resolution

So the new year is finally here.

2008 has been a mix bag of fun and many new beginnings for me.
I got to update the look of ProjectBlogo (yeah! it's version 3.0 now), took up a challenge and completed not 1 but 6 marathons (double yeah!), climbed 2 volcanoes (triple yeah!), supporting my exP5B pupils during PSLE results day, got another IT diploma from Temasek Polytechnic, took many great school photos, set up a Moodle environment for my 5Excellence and for my future pupils, designed my best School Diary cover ever, and worked together with my pupils to 'evolve' under Project: Reach for the Star. Well, that's just some that I can share here - the rest are personal :)

However, not all my 2008 resolutions came true. For the innumerable time, the one resolution I kept failing each year time and again, is to learn how to cook. Just never got round to that :P

Anyway, all those are in the past. And with the coming new year, we should all look ahead and start planning on what we hope to accomplish this coming 2009. The planning is actually termed as the 'New Year's Resolution' (I'm sure most of you have heard about it before).

I think a New Year's Resolution is important, whether we keep to them or not. It keeps things in perspective and it also serves as a reminder to us in case we get complacent sometime in the middle of the year.

The following are some of my 2009 New Year's Resolution.

- to help 'evolve' as many pupils I possibly can so they can realise their fullest potential by developing holistically and thereby securing a good placing in their secondary schools (err.... but actually I've been doing this year in and year out so it's not exactly new)
- complete the IronMan race within the time limit, get the Finisher's medal and become an IronMan :)
- integrating Flash interface/animation to ProjectBlogo
- get a B+ average for my Masters course
- make the Moodle more 'powerful' :)
- climb another volcano (I love the view from the summit of the crater) or a 4000+m mountain (my highest mountain summitted is still in the 3000+m range)

2008 has been a great year. I hope 2009 will exceed it :)

That being said, have you given a thought to your New Year's Resolution?

Happy New Year everyone!