Day: January 23, 2012

Journaling Café: Looking Forward

The year of 2012 is still quite young, it still being January and all, so today, in our journaling corner, we will take a look at what is to come this year. What hopes do you have? What expectations? What wishes for change? What wishes for constancy? Here are some prompts to inspire your journaling: And here’s my (somewhat messy) page listing some of my resolutions for this year:

Happy New Year!

… at least in these parts of the world. It’s Spring Festival! Which means, little sleep, lots of fire crackers, and of course everything shuts down around here for basically two weeks (though I’m glad the big supermarkets will only be closed for about 2 days!). At any rate, I got myself prepared again, for the big fireworks display right in front of my building. And lo and behold, I wasn’t disappointed. Shortly before midnight, the guards began to set up their boxes with all the fireworks, which was my cue, too. This year, I was a little better prepared – all bundled up warmly, I seated myself on a stool on my balcony all ready to shoot away myself (shooting pictures, that is). The only disappointment: I didn’t expect the grand display to be over so soon. (Last year, it took them at least half an hour to fire up all that they had set up down there.) But this year, I was just getting warmed up with my photo shooting when it was …