Jessie's institutional targets for fiscal year 2007-08

1. Go to the gym again. Gotta be beautiful inside and out. And diet. Performance indicator: 30 lbs. weight loss. Probability of success: High.

2. Learn how to dance gracefully. Must learn the basics of standard and latin ballroom dancing. Must ooze with sex and masculinity on the dance floor. This goal is not realistic but miracles always happen in Hollywood. You just wait and see.

3. Read at least one book per month. The last book I've read was Anne Tyler's Back When We Were Grownups and that was way back in July. There was a time that I could manage one book per week, but considering the many tasks that must be squeezed within each seven-day stretch, this target should be appropriate enough.

4. Watch the Miss Universe 2008 beauty pageant in Vietnam. Considering my impending state of joblessness, this goal might not be realized. In this case, I must be able to watch the pageant live within my lifetime.

5. Save. Pursue a taxi-free life, unless the taxi fare may be justifiably charged somewhere else.

6. Engage in great sex more frequently. That which also involves the heart, the mind and the soul.

7. Compile a portfolio of published works, among other outputs of my professional career. Apply for jobs abroad. Do not kiss asses because such part of the human anatomy is reserved only for either spanking or rimming.

8. Draw. Sketch. Write. Watch old movies. Sleep at least eight hours each day. Nurture thy heart and thy body with these simple pleasures.

9. Buy a good camera and capture everything. The extraordinary and the mundane. The colorful and the neutral. The happy and the sad. The ecstasy and the agony. The machines and God's natural gifts.

10. Go to the beach more often. By accomplishing task No.1, going to the beach should no longer be an ordeal but a kinky pleasure.

Mwah!