New Year - 2013

My last post didn’t exactly end in an optimistic note. Let’s correct that:

Wishing you all a happy, joyous and peaceful 2013 folks!

The Mayans predicted that the world-as we know it-would end but we’re still here standing (cheers to that).

The new year is a time to reflect and wipe the slate clean. People advice against making new year resolutions but I do them anyway. I like taking a look back at my previous resolutions. Helps me get a better understanding of my achievement or lack thereof.

Stuff done in 2012:

• Got in to the masters program at Carnegie Mellon.
• Learned Ruby(& Rails) and built a couple of sites with it. Long way to go but loving it.
• Screwed around with some small github projects.
• Moved this blog along with all my old wordpress posts to Octopress.

Not too bad.

Stuff I couldn’t get done in 2012:

• Get back in shape (This one’s been there since my 2009 new year resolution list. But I have a good feeling 2013 will see this task done).
• Sound engineering (I did do a bunch of editing here and there for some folks, but this was stuff I had down and didn’t particularly learn anything new in the process).

Stuff I want to do in 2013

1. Get back in shape (In addition to hitting the gym planning to eat better).
2. Get more sleep (I have this bad feeling 2012 zapped some of my brain cells).
3. Get really good at Rails (looking at running through the Destroy all Software and Railcast screencasts).
4. Get a job after my masters, preferably doing something I love.