After much ado, I have transferred my New Year Resolutions for the lunar year of 2005 from paper to computer. The list is as follows:
1. Get my driving license by end of this year
2. Get a CAP score ≥ 4 for semester 1
3. Be a proactive and positive student in the class of 05/06
4. Get enough sleep, at least 6h every day
5. Smoke* as little lecturers as possible (that’ll be hard to do!)
6. Secure IPPT Silver after Oct 13
7. Have an idea of my profession; learn more about it whatever it is, as if I were an integral part of it already
8. Groom myself into a more confident speaker. Look in the mirror everyday and like what I see. Whether be it my hair etc, I must make a conscious effort to feel good and hone my communication skills, as it is an indispensable and invaluable asset to me.
I realize that I dig Green Day quite a lot lately, perhaps due to their rock opera offering this time round (American Idiot), and all the hype about their 7 Grammy nominations and having finally won one for Best Rock Album. After browsing through their older works it may seem that they are like any other punk act with nothing much to offer. However, I must say that giving their songs enough listening will change that thinking, as you must admit they managed to keep up that energy all the way since “When I Come Around” to “Hitchin’ A Ride”, until “American Idiot”. They’ve been around for many many years now it seems and they still keep that energy around them, and that is something hard to come by: sticking by your beliefs and remain unwavering amidst those Boulevards of Broken Dreams. That is Green Day. Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool. They make great music. They make great punks.
*Smoke: (verb) Army terminology. Not burning tobacco and inhaling it! Think wartime, where you’re outnumbered by enemy soldiers 3 to 1. Then you let fly one of those canisters of smoke and it lets you evade capture by running away into the unknown smog you created. Hooray smokescreen formed! Also known as trying to show that you’re knowledgeable but you’re actually talking something which only cows will find enlightening, in the hope that the lecturer/instructor will let you off after the spotlight is cast on you during lesson time.
