This morning when I awoke, my eyes half-closed, I hear "Stargazer" on the news. The TV volume was loud enough for me to give up my 5-more-minute-dream. I still can't believe holiday's over and we've just celebrated the new year. I got up and saw on TV, a chubby woman with blondish-brown almost red hair talking about what she can see happening in 2010. Apparently, she's a psychic who has been said to predict a number of events in the past year, and she calls herself "Stargazer". Some of her predictions of 2010 as mentioned were, (1) A certain candidate whose first name contains double letter "N" will be hailed as the president of the Philippines. (2) There will be a massive explosion caused by an oil tanker/gasoline station. (3) A veteran Philippine movie icon will be suffering from an illness. Then suddenly, I hear my dad saying, "Maligo ka na, anung oras na!" So I rushed to the bathroom (after greeting my dad a Happy Birthday. It's his 63rd birthday.) and thought to myself, how the hell are these psychics able to glimpse into the future? 'Cause I would love to take a glimpse of mine.

But I am just one of the many who can't predict their future. And the most we could do is prepare a list of "Things-to-do" for the year ahead, as what most of us call, the New Year's Resolution. I've formulated some resolutions myself. This year, I'll pay all of my credit card debts. Will find more time for my family. Will try to live a healthier lifestyle, will volunteer to do charity works, so on and so forth... If I'll be able to stick to it, I don't know. But, at least I have my list and I have countless plans of living a more fulfilling and sensible life.

New Year's Resolutions and Predictions make our lives more exciting. No one really knows what's going to happen next so we all want to have a sneak-preview. And setting our goals and listening to psychics' premonitions are the closest we can ever get to the future. Like Madame Stargazer, we can all just gaze from afar and hope to have a prosperous year ahead. Now, do you have a resolutions' list yet?