My New Year's Resolution
2008

First written out on Dec. 31, 2008

1. Time Management
Effectively learn how to arrange time and how to organize events around different chunks of time.
Effectively learn how to make use of time, and how to allocate time into different categories.
Effectively minimize time wasted by working effectively.
2. Studies - having a successful undergraduate university career.
Work in groups - learn how to synergize.
Learn how to be prepared for classes, office hours, study groups, and midterms and finals.
Learn how to revise for tests - when to revise.
Important: review materials on a regular basis. This will make hard-core revision time much easier, and allow room for you to focus on key revision topics.
Review material in homework, class assignments, lecture notes, and listening carefully to what the professor is saying. Listen, rather than hear what is said in the lectures.
Learn how to relax and construct a healthy work/life balance. Life isn't work, and work isn't life. Remember that.
Always do your research thoroughly. Actually, the better prepared you are, the better. It never hurts to be well-prepared.
Similarly, learn to distinguish between preparing too well and misconstruing that with freaking out, panicking, and letting anxiety rule over you prior to a midterm or a final.
Learn how to prepare for standardized tests. This is pretty important.
Learn to learn. And learn how to learn from others through human relationships. Understand intuitively and putting into practice the principles that you have learned that enables you to build solid, trusting relationships with other people.
Understand what delegation means.
Effectively enhance your leadership skills. Remember in 7 Habits that one learns how to achieve private victory before public victory. Learn to develop independence, dependence, and finally interdependence.
The apex or pinnacle is there for you to reach and strive towards.
Set realistic goals that you can and will be able to actually pursue.
3. Learn or know how to have fun!

K.C

New Orleans in a glass

New Orleans Fizz Recipe

1 tbsp. granulated sugar
1 tbsp. lemon juice
3 dashes orange-flower water
1 tbsp. egg white
1 1/2 ozs. heavy cream
1 jigger "Old Tom" gin

Combine above ingredients with cracked ice in electric blender. Just before taking off the blender, add 2 ozs. of sparkling water. Strain into chilled fizz glass (another Buena Vista authentic recipe).

The historic venture started on the night of Nov. 10 in 1952. Jack Koeppler, then-owner of the Buena Vista, challenged international travel writer Stanton Delaplane to help re-create a highly-touted "Irish Coffee" served at Shannon Airport in Ireland. Intrigued, Stan accepted Jack's invitation, and the pair began to experiment immediately. Throughout the night the two of them stirred and sipped judiciously and eventually acknowledged two recurring problems. The taste was "not quite right", and the cream would not float, but Jack was undaunted. The restaurateur pursued the elusive elixir ith religious fervor, even making a pilgrimage overseas to Shannon Airport.

Upon Jack's return, the experimentation continued. Finally, the perfect-tasting Irish whiskey was selected. Then the problem of the bottom-bent cream was taken to San Francisco's mayor, a prominent dairy owner. It was discovered that when the cream was aged for 48 hours and frothed to a precise consistency, it would float as delicately as a swan on the surface of Jack's and Stan's special nectar.

Success was theirs! With the recipe now mastered, a sparkling clear, six-ounce, heat-treated goblet was chosen as a suitable chalice.

Soon the fame of the Buena Vista's Irish Coffee spread throughout the land. Today, it's still the same delicious mixture, and it's still the same clamorous, cosmopolitan Buena Vista. Both....delightful experiences.