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
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?