Nu year Nude me

Busy busy isogashii.

So the new year is here. With it comes the new season which made me fall sick. But now, with the recovered body, i feel anew.
I like new years. It is like rebirth, almost. And it is time where people get new things. Already there are new furnitures in my house. I am thinking of getting a new bed too, which is big. This time i want a massive one! So that i can roll left and right.

Many things have taken place that is new as well. I have a new diet and new fitness regime too, this ought to cut me back to shape.I have been drinking 600 ml pure fresh milk with my lunch everyday. This fills me up well and keeps any craving away, preventing me from feeling peckish. My dinner is also small too but i make sure that i have a failry satisfying brekky. Then there is the yoga and boxing class in the gym. I feel so much leaner and healthier. I feel so much happier too.

My main motivation this year, 2009, is to be happy. I never believe that someone can be truly happy with himself. If he is, then he is probably just in denial or some alternate wierdo universe. Then I met people whom seemed to be perfectly at peace with themselves. I like to be like them for a change.

Didi's guide for a happy 2009:

1) Be at peace with your environment. After spending 6 years in Melbourne, I can finally say that i am 99.95% comfortable and settled in. I admit that it takes a a while to really fit into my environment but now, I can spend hours staring into that redbrick building and looking at the setting sun, smelling the air and say, 'I love this place'. And i really do too. However, something within me tells me that my current matured love affair with Melbourne has a lifespan of probaly another 4 years, whcih makes me kinda sad.

2) Be at peace with my physical body. As my work is fairly inactive, and involves me sitting for hours, i did accummulate much uneeded gut girth through the last few months. However, yoga and boxing classes has been so beneficial that i lost quite alot of those stubborn fat. Definitely the best thing to have happened to me since the start of January. I definitely recommend it to everyone.

3) Be at peace with my body image. Part of the reason for me being a very unhappy prince is that i have a really unhealthy body image of myself. I think that my life will be better if i am 10 cm taller, if my nose is slightly shaper, if my skin is smoother, if i am skinnier and i really really do believe that I will be happier only if these change occurs. However, I now realised that I can be happy just as I am.

Having said that, i do know that i should hit the gym harder purely for health reasons and i do need to contantly improve my skin and also i am planning to go under the knife for my nose to make it smaller. As for the height factor, nothing i can do about it. I am happy about the way i look now, and i know that i can do better. So i am just aiming to reach my full potential inseatd of being miserable about something that should not be. I am thankful for the way I am and will strive for better.

4) Be at peace with my bank account. Nuff said. I need to save more and spend less and make more too.

5) Be at peace with the people around me. Fer sure 2008 has been a year of much turbulance. I made wrong decisions and did stupid things. Not only do i affect myself, I affected the people around me. I want this year to be year where good friendships are forged and that i can emit positiveness to people around me.

6) Lastly, be at peace with God. This is tied very closely to the first point but not only this is about the environment, this is about my inner world too. I feel that in 2009, there will be an extra pair of hands lifting me higher. I like this peace to dawn onto me once again. A stonger connectedness to my spirituality and a stronger bond to God.

So these are it. The 6 ways in Didi's guide to happiness. The first 5 points are like the points to a pentagram while the last point is like the circle that ties the points together, creating a star inside a circle. This will eb the new tatto that i will be getting mid this year on my left arm. I want this tattoo to mark my growth so far, my ability to let go and it represents the present (my first tattoo represent the past).

The Plan (Love don't just fall from the sky, you gotaa werk on it).

In between researching on 'How to become a vampire' and daydreaming about my next holiday, I realised that we have too many distractions in our life. To succeed, we were taught to have a goal, a plan, an ambition and a bery strong determination. This is because we get distracted so easily and losing focus is like second nature.

Same goes for relationships. We often forget the most fundemental rules that humans abide and seek answers in places as absurd as under a rock. Have a goal, have a plan, and have lots of determination. This is especially true when the topic of 'Love' is put on the table. Infatuation is one messy bitch. Lust is so strong that it can pull one away from a sane mind. You may want to take the relationship in an easy pace for a minute, but the next, you desire to take it to the next level. You may have said to yourself you like to know the other person more before committing too much into the relationship, however, you end up being clingy and almost an irritant to the other.

What isit then, have you done wrong? For sure love is blind and not rational and people should follow what their heart tells them. If so, why have a plan? Why have a plan B if plan A does not work? Well, as i have mentioned earlier, to succeed, one needs a goal, a plan and lots of determination. Love don't just fall down from the sky, it has to be worked on... or you will most likely find yourself in a sorry state.

When you first meet someone, you should always have a plan. Always have an idea of where you want to take the relaionship to. However, the most important rule ever is NEVER sleep with the other person on the first date. This will mean that the relationship will not blossom in the future.

Secondly, always never give too much of yourself away. Leave some room for mystery so the the other person is always hungery to know you better. Leave the alcohol on the side as it makes people talk.

Thirdly, no matter how much the dirty talk has accrued, always remain polite and classy. You don't want to be classified as a dirty whore.

Lastly, treat the other person the same way you would like them to treat you. If they do no correspond, it means that he/she is just not that into you. Move on.

These points are the fundamental foundation to a slow and steady grpwth. It is always better to take it slow than rush into things, leaving you in bouts of regret and in hopes of turning back time.