I will always be 29, ask Brian Kinney

When I was 21, I bought a self-help book by Steven Gibb, 20-something, Floundering And Off The Yuppie Track- A Self Help Guide to Making It Through Your Twenties. It sure helped a lot and gives advice on how to find a job that pays the bills, making new friends in a strange city, becoming a social activist without the burnout, living (and eating) on less than $14,000 a year, leaving the beer keg behind(I still am working on that) and falling in love while maintaining your sanity which by the way I didn't have time to read or digest since I thought that it was so bookish. I have my own software for that.

Now, I'm 29 and just counting the days before the dreaded big 30 . I promised myself to assess and review the past 29 years of my life and pay tribute to all the people who made an impact on my so-called life. Well, I'm no drama queen but hell this would be something new. I guess its time to value family, friends and fortune. We'll be going back to the past and show you the sights, the characters and persons I met but still be connected with the present.

I always make a list every year but this one is different. I am now putting it on my blog and not on paper. I am just doing it not because of the New Year but because of me. Here it is:

1. Be true to myself , friends and and family
2. Assert what you believe in and think of yourself first
3. Career wise, play, fight,take the risk and do more ass-kissing (it sure was effective)
4. Take the DELF and continue Advanced French
5. Apply multiple visas to any country imaginable (ask help from Ruel)
6. Clubbing to a minimum
7. Stash cash, save more and invest (aka read Idiot's Guide on Personal Finance on Your 20's and 30's)
8. Travel to Europe
9. Hunt for more high paying jobs in Viet Nam, Camdodge or Afrique
10. More blogs???

Well, W3 for this would be:
Who: River
When: September 16, 2005
What: THE LIST

If Demi Moore can get Ashton Kutcher and Iraq can have elections, I think its also possible I'll still be forever 29.