Fellow readers and friends,
We are few days away to celebrate a new year, 2018! If I were to describe my 2017, it was rejections, eye-opening, hopeful, eventful, emotional, freedom, wise and lovely. The events happened this year are mostly work related and there are some personal stuff but manageable. Hopefully.
It is the year where I quit my 2 years job as a Associate/ Content Editor. Then, I had a very short career break for 4 months. Where I mostly used to write more and explore more of my creative side. Then, I was hired to work in an investment bank and enjoying my time learning in the HR department.
2017 also quite memorable because I went to travel alone to Kuching and really enjoyed myself there.
I managed to publish two e-books:
1. Ally And The Daily Prompt (March 2017)
2. The Thirty Days (June 2017)
My e-books are free and available in different formats. Do support me by leaving a rating in Goodreads and share it with your friends and family!
You can find my Goodreads page through here: Ally Mare Goodreads
All my book projects are currently on halt and my writing time has been tremendously cut down. I am mostly busy with work right now. I will try my best to spend my time in writing!
As I did last year, I present you my Top 10 poems in 2017! The top list are based on views!
TOP 10 POEMS 2017
- Happy Together (November)
- Will you follow me? (July)
- Each others company (November)
- Human emotions are like diamonds (October)
- Heavenly exposure (November)
- The joy of cooking (January)
- To someone who don’t appreciate them (June)
- And remain still in sadness (July)
- That is me in pain (September)
- “I am here with you” (November)
TOP 5 ALLY’S THOUGHTS
- And December came (December)
- Let’s Talk About Texting (November)
- The Talented Musician, Yuta Tanaka (September)
- Did They Approved? (June)
- Signs of A Loyal Person (October)
That’s all for the lists section.
Moving on, 2017 is also a year where I managed to meet wonderful people! I also managed to meet with other writers too!
Special shout out to these wonderful people! Thank you for your time and hopefully we will meet again!
SPECIAL SHOUTOUT
Singledust @ Living on the equator but longing for snow
And I hope I will be able to meet more writers, bloggers and talented people in 2018. Lets have a cup of coffee together! Do check their sites for wonderful posts.
WHAT TO EXPECT IN 2018
Other than hoping all the good things, I don’t really have anything else to ask. I will just be busy with work, movies, buying books that I have no time to read, meeting new faces, travelling, and hopefully a partner? Exciting isn’t it?
That’s all for now. I wish you all the best in 2018. To me, entering a new year is just the same. It’s not about having a resolution or having the perfect plan but its how I would spend my time in the best way I can. I do have plans and I’m working on it but ultimately, I want to enjoy every moment that I have with the people around me, the time for myself, and do the things that I want. It’s much more interesting that way, isn’t it?
That’s all for now. I wish you all a happy new year!
Hey, Thank you! I hope you have an exciting and wonderful year ahead. It’s nice knowing you. Can’t wait to read more of your great poems in 2018! Happy New Year, Ally!
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Hey, Mintly. It was a pleasure to know you. I wish you all the best and may you be blessed years to come. Happy New Year! π
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thank you for the mention Ally. so happy for all the things that have shaped you in 2017, especially the trip to Kuching , we must meet soon and chat over all this and the books we have read. a very blessed and prosperous new year to you my dear friend. reading your poems and books has brought me much joy.
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Happy New Year to you my friend. There are so much catching up to do. π
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Congratulations and wish you a wonderful new year . Write more and explore moreπ
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Thank you. Wishing you all the best! π
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Same to uπ
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All the best for you too! Be sure to visit my little New Year video. Alas, when my New Year post went up, the video was not yet available. I didn’t do a good job in syncing them! Do re-visit and enjoy the tunes. Happy 2018!
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Thank you, Karina. I wish you a happy new year and have a great year ahead! π
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Nice post. You have been my biggest support on my blog, Instagram and Twitter. Sometimes people miss the idea that by simply clicking a like on some ones post is actually inspirational and send out positive boost. Thank you for following and liking my content. A very happy new year to you. π
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Sorry for the late reply. Thank you very much for the support too. It has been a pleasure to read yours. I hope you have a great year ahead! Happy new year! π
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Happy New Year, Ally! Hopefully this year will bring you much good fortune and more reasons to smile π
P.S. I really love that you got to meet some fellow bloggers, like Gina!
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Sorry for the late reply. Happy New Year to you Jade. I wish you all the best and filled with wonderfulness. I also met Gina today with her poetry group. It was exciting and a great experience. π
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