list 100 things that make me happy

1. Discovering new talented musicians and getting awestruck by their talent
2. Discovering new writers who speak to me
3. Having my personal quiet time
4. Knowing that I’ve learnt something new and/or grown wiser compared to yesterday
5. Have a thought, bright idea or revelation strike me
6. Watching a live concert that totally blows me away
7. Completing a blog entry I am satisfied with
8. Honesty
9. Posting photos on Flickr and getting nice comments/favourited/Explored
10. Making new friends who are on the same wavelength
11. Learning a new language
12. Getting acknowledged for work well done
13. Meeting my favourite musicians
14. Karaoke
15. Having something previously difficult “click” because I practised hard enough
16. Travelling in a nice foreign place
17. Finding new perspectives
18. Hanging out in huge libraries/bookstores/music stores
19. Finishing a book/movie and knowing that it’ll remain as one of my favourite books/movies of all time
20. Waking up without anything nagging at the back of my head
21. Spring cleaning and standing back to watch the final result
22. My friends
23. Getting high on alcohol
24. Walking out of the shower after a satisfying workout
25. Approaching a weekend knowing that there is no urgent work that requires my weekend time
27. Friday nights and Saturdays
28. Falling minorly ill and eating mum’s porridge in front of the TV
29. Playing with a cat/dog that seems to love you as much as you love it
30. Singing along to my favourite CDs
31. Realising I’ve lost weight
32. Fruits (most fruits)
33. Making lists (like what I’m doing now)
34. Making people laugh
35. Sleeping under the blankets on dark and stormy nights
36. Waking up early in the morning, then realising that I still have a few hours to go before I officially need to wake up
37. (I know this sounds REALLY geekish, but now that I’ve started working, this really IS a luxury) Studying for exams in the library
38. Coining new words and expressions
39. Finding an equivalent word/expression in another language
40. Learning a new word that I subsequently find very useful
41. Going to sleep after a hard day’s work
42. Chocolates (esp fine dark ones)
43. Happy and agreeable kids
44. Taking stock of my CD collection and realising just how much music I actually own
45. Christmas
46. Chinese New Year’s eve
49. Hilarious jokes that make my stomach ache
50. Wit
51. Laughing babies
52. The end of a hard day’s work, knowing that I deserve the break that I am enjoying
53. Elijah, or the thought of him
54. Listening to a random CD, and realising that it actually has a song from eons ago that I really liked
55. Overcoming a challenge
56. Feeling insignificant when I am in the presence of something vast, like the ocean, endless skies
57. Making mum smile
58. Knowing that dad is proud of me
59. Successfully creating something
60. Checking into a hotel and waking up in a hotel room knowing you are on holiday and the next thing on the agenda is international buffet breakfast woohoo!
61. Getting things completed, striking things off my lists
62. A really excellent sound system
63. Finding that someone else actually thinks/feels or sees or reacts to things the same way as I do
64. Learning something new about a friend
65. Crying like no one cares when I feel really miserable
66. Dancy rhythms
67. Retail therapy
68. The internet (how could I ever forget that?)
69. The teacher or boss calling in sick on the day of the dreadful assignment
70. Cereal in cold milk
71. Japanese food
72. Covers that give the original a new twist
73. Receiving my package from internet shopping
74. to be continued…