13. Eat Otoro - I was never much a fan of sushi until sometime last year (no, California Maki doesn't count). Otoro is fatty tuna, basically a choice cut taken from the belly of a yellowfin. I learned about it through an episode of GTO, where Onizuka's students kept mentioning how it melts in their mouths like Kobe beef. Like the latter, Otoro is really expensive, easily worth its weight in some precious metal. I've heard through a friend that there's a sushi place in Hong Kong that serves Otoro exclusively. A single order of a few slices is supposed to cost close to five thousand pesos. Just between you and me, that amount can already buy you a lot of COOKED fish.

14. Back Up - I cannot express just how crucial this is. I went AWOL from this blog for December last year because my hard disk just disappeared when I booted up one day. This little setback cost me about 30 gigabytes of files (that's around 29 gigabytes of academic porn, I think). Even worse, all my works-in-progress became binary values that my machine could not make sense of. This year, I promise to back up. I don't want to have to download that much porn all over again (which I view for academic purposes).

15. Keep in Touch - My social network has somehow gotten to be unrealistically and logistically huge that I start to doubt my psychological assessments, which have always put me down as an introvert (I know that I am though, even if it seems otherwise). I will try to get in touch with all of the people who, in one way or another, have disappeared from my radar during the last ten to fifteen years. For this undertaking, I will stalk people, coerce information from them and even hire private investigators. Friendster can only get me so far, after all.

16. Listen to Each of My CDs - Not to be confused with #8, which will involve only DVDs and books that I never got to view, I intend to listen to all my CDs this year, playing each disk at least once. This won't be an easy feat because the first task will be to gather them all together, including the ones I lent to others. I guess the next logical step will be to catalogue them, another task I promised to do several years back.

17. Befriend Celebrities - It's possible, I think, even with my options having grown severely limited. My friend over at MTV just resigned and I haven't bothered exploiting my other well-connected friends' social networks yet. I will have to lower my standards, I think. I can probably start with the lesser networks like ABC5 and IBC13, and most importantly RJTV 29. After all, who wouldn't want to have Jojo Alejar as a friend?

18. Perfect My Swing - Golf is a gentleman's game, so it's but appropriate for me to learn how to play, seeing as I am a perfect gentleman with perfectly gentlemanly pursuits. My first attempt at the game happened during the last day of 2005 - my dad has been gradually learning over the past month and I finally caved in to his invitations to go with him to the driving range that day. I think he just wanted to make me miserable that day because, having a good head start, hitting those dimpled balls is something he knew he can beat me at.

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