(Belated) Mid Year Reflection

So here goes the long overdue mid-year reflection (follow-up to the new year resolution post).

1. To go for most opportunities available

Not sure how I can answer this. There are not that many things that came up in the first half of the year since I am on my final semester in NUS. However, I would say I kinda failed in this aspect because I didn't go to a meditation retreat (which is something I wanted to do during the break before work started) when I had the chance. There was no other opportunities of much significance afterwards; just some incidental opportunities such as networking with certain people (like my friend's mentor on Indo2SV programme, other people in my team from a different office) and some others.

2. To improve my communication skills (especially in Chinese and with girls)

This is kinda hard to tell too. I went to Hong Kong so technically I practiced a little bit of Chinese... And I have been trying to speak a little Chinese here and there when I am conversing with a PRC colleague and friends... I guess at least I tried though the effectiveness still remains to be seen.

As to with girls... This is a hard one. I think I still suck at it if I were to be one-on-one with a girl, but in a group I think I am doing alright. To elaborate, I would run out of topics to talk about very quickly if I am by myself with a girl, but in a group I don't have much trouble keeping the conversation going.

3. Exercise more than once a week

Failure for the most part. Didn't really get to exercise much during the break and travelling around a lot doesn't help either. I hope I can start to work on it once I'm back to Singapore.

4. Get a girlfriend before I graduated

Lol

5. To create something I can be proud of

Still work in progress... Hopefully it will end up as something I can be proud of. Currently it is fine but I still think it still has a lot of work to be done.

6. Be more resolute.

Can't say I am doing great on this resolution either. I am still very indecisive when making some rather difficult decisions but I think I'm getting better, at least. The fact that it didn't come up as a topic of my blog posts in the first half of the year is proof enough :p.

Sorry for the very brief reflection, and I believe some of you readers (anyone?) might get lost since I omitted a lot of backstory. I am currently too lazy to do it and I am flying tomorrow morning so I should start packing up (do you even know where and why I am even flying lol)

Aaanyway, all the best in your endeavours!

Edit:
I am currently more "sober" (not that I was drunk or anything, I was just so exhausted I was kinda in a half-asleep state), and upon reading this post, I think this post is so bad and not worth to be called a reflection. To fix it a little bit, I would like to add some things to this post.

First, Since number 4 is already failed, it needs to be modified. I am thinking of changing it into "Make a meaningful relationship with a girl". I think this captures the thing that I should be focusing on better. As in, instead of viewing girls as some kind of object that I should obtain, I should view them as certain type of people I am having difficulty socializing with, and that I should work on alleviating that.

Update on number 5, I kinda stopped working on it because I feel mentally overwhelmed with the new environment in my workplace, and the project needed to be ready like by this or next week. I couldn't take the stress and decided to stop working on it. Another wasted chance...

I'm starting to notice that it seems like I don't have the motivation in fulfilling the resolutions at all. Is it because they are not actually what I really want, or am I just lazy?

Hopefully things will work out. All the best in your life's endeavours, and please wish me all the best in mine too.