Don't think, just act!

I've personally used that line a few times too many in my daily life. Now that I think about it, can't say that I've been following my own words much... at least not in recent history. I guess it's due time I took some proactive steps to spice things up in life again. After all, I remember times when I did what I wanted... and it felt good :P

For starters, I called up a language center this morning. In fulfillment of 2-years worth of New Year's resolutions that have gone unattended, I've finally taken my first step to fix that problem :) What about? Simple: Mandarin lessons. Since I have a HUGE number of Chinese friends, it would be socially (and professionally) sound to pick it up eventually. Enrolled in an introductory conversation lesson to be held sometime this coming July. I quote a friend:

Yi hou ke yi gen ni jiang hua yu le.

Hehe. Too bad I can't claim that I can recite the above correctly due to the intonation mangling that romanization causes =D Not yet at least :)

What else? Let's see... a colleague(s?) dared me to chat up with the *only* indian girl in the office. Trainee under a different project. Neva found her interesting, but the rest of 'em don't seem to leave it at that. So sure, thought I could shut 'em up at least... and who knows, she could be interesting... or so I thought. Let's just say my impression before and after the conversation didn't change much. Same goes to the other 2 trainees who were with her. Why? I have no idea... I usually go with the 'aura' excuse. Some ppl just don't exude the 'aura' that grabs your interest. But the point is, I initiated a conversation with someone I probably wouldn't have ever chatted up with under normal circumstances.

Oh, I asked a close friend out for breakfast. It was a meet-up that was 3 years delayed, no thanks to our clashing schedules and various other lame excuses :P Was fine and dandy with all the quick planning and single-tracked motivation of getting it dealt with. Unfortunately, even with all that effort, it didn't work out coz friend had last minute rescheduling of work. Probably gonna postpone it a week or two... shall hope my determination doesn't fizzle. Momentum of 'just act' feeling is strong at the moment, so I wouldn't worry too much.

Well, I guess 3 'motivated' acts for 3 days is kinda uplifting. Hopes there's more to do next week, hehe. Alright, it's now 2am on a Sunday morning. ZZZzzz...