100 things to do in 2003

First, a Happy New Year to all!

It’s the second day of Year 2003.

Having any problem figuring out what to do with and in the next 363 days?

Here are 100 suggestions:

1. Call a friend

2. Unload emotional burden

3. Travel light through life

4. Clean your room

5. Mop the floor

6. Sing a song

7. Recite a poem

8. Work out some more

9. Drink lots of water

10. Fix your photo album

11. Sleep early

12. Wake up with the sun

13. Stop smoking

14. Stick to soft drinks

15. Go to church

16. Drink Charantia (tea, for diabetics)

17. Drink Banaba Tea (for the hypertensive)

18. Stop being a coach potato

19. Say the Rosary

20. Don’t be selfish

21. Share your blessings

22. Join Game KNB?

23. Stop tracking Kris Aquino’s lovelife

24. Visit Vicki Belo (for those excessively healthy)

25. Minimize telebabad

26. Save money

27. Forgive and forget

28. Wear Bench

29. Have lunch or dinner at Little Asia (Tomas Morato Ave., Quezon City)

30. Eat on time

31. Stay away from drugs

32. Have a serving of pizza at Napoli (Timog-Morato, Rotonda, Quezon City)

33. Say no to junk food

34. Watch Mano Po

35. Watch Dekada ’70

36. Watch Alamat ng Lawin

37. Watch Home Alone da Riber

38. Watch Agimat (Anting-Anting Ni Lolo)

39. Watch Hula Mo, Huli Ko

40. Watch Lapu-Lapu

41. Watch Lastikman

42. Watch Spirit Warriors 2: The Short Cut

43. Stop buying pirated tapes and CDs

44. Give away old clothes

45. Listen to mellow songs

46. Watch a vidotape of The Sound of Music for the nth time

47. Read a nice book

48. Pay your debts

49. Stop grumbling about the traffic

50. Stop worrying about chain letters you haven’t mailed

51. Smile at your neighbors

52. Put your cellphone on "silent" while inside an FX

53. Drive carefully ("the life you save may be your own")

54. Audition for ABS-CBN’s Star Circle

55. Tune in to Korina Sanchez’s DZMM program and her and Cito Beltran’s Isyu on ABS-CBN (Thursday nights)

56. Have yourself fitted with a new pair of glasses by Vivian Sarabia (SM Megamall and other SM outlets)

57. Don’t talk to strangers (no matter how goodlooking they are)

58. Learn to love yourself

59. Stop worrying about growing old (everybody does anyway)

60. Find a lover

61. Stay tuned to The Buzz

62. Take a break

63. Check out the plugs before leaving home

64. Verify gossip before passing it on

65. Try "MT" (Transcendental Meditation)

66. Take a stroll in the mall

67. Visit the old hometown in the province

68. Offer Mass for your dear departed

69. Learn to eat veggies

70. Take a meal at Bento Box (near the Circle Rotonda, Quezon City)

71. Make love, not war

72. Love your job

73. Stop worrying about Bush’s war on Iraq

74. Paint a picture

75. Leave Jules Ledesma and Assunta de Rossi alone

76. Stop sulking now that GMA has announced she isn’t running in 2004

77. Give FPJ time to decide (whether to run or not to run in 2004)

78. Write stinging letters to your Senators and/or Congressmen so their conscience (if they have any) can be pricked

79. Help curb graft and corruption by not voting for officials perceived to be corrupt

80. Report suspicious-looking characters to the PNP "hotline" 117

81. Think positive

82. Say "I love you" to your loved ones more often than you used to

83. Have a haircut at Ricky Reyes

84. Try Dr. Nellie Yu’s wrinkle-free treatment (by modern equipment) at her Derma Clinic (third floor of Glorietta)

85. Relish good old ‘60s-’70s music with D’Flintstones at Amoeba (Eastwood City)

86. Continue following your favorite telenovela

87. Have a foot massage

88. Water the plants

89. Make a novena to St. Therese, The Little Flower of Jesus

90. Learn to say no if you have to say no

91. Fix that leaking faucet or roof or toilet bowl or wash basin or whatever

92. Don’t dwell on the past

93. Focus your attention on that silver lining yonder

94. Be brave

95. Watch Lea Salonga in Flower Drum Song (if you can afford it)

96. Join a prayer rally

97. Go to confession

98. Stop making dirty phone calls

99. Count one to 10 before you blow your top

100. Read The STAR from cover to cover

John and Vanessa welcome new year with a big bang in Boracay

Just when you and I thought that Vanessa del Bianco has sought anonymity in Toronto, guess who my gallivanting DPA spotted in Boracay a few days ago, all set to welcome Year 2003 with a big bang (presumably) – yes, Vanessa together with – who else? – her John Estrada.

Reported to be enjoying a grand vacation in Toronto while at the same time denying persistent rumors that she’s pregnant (or that she’s quiting showbiz, specifically as one of John’s co-hosts on MTB), Vanessa must have slipped quietly back into the country – straight into John’s waiting arms?

In Boracay, the couple had to summon the police to keep at bay curious fans and fellow bakasyonistas who kept asking John why he was with Vanessa and not with (estranged wife) Janice de Belen. Tinatanong pa ba ’yun?