It’s time for my annual New Year’s blogpost.
This is where I pen down a summary of how the previous year has been and what I plan to do this year. I used to do this every year on my myspace blog, but since that place is deader than dead now, I’ll just do it here on facebook. Mind you, this may get let, so I hope you have your reading glasses on.
So how can I summarize 2010 in one word: EPIC
It has been on great year and I hope that 2011 will bring the same or even more awesomeness.
Yes, of course there has been some low points, but the good moments overweight the bad moments of this year. So I won’t let that form my opinion on the entire year.
As I read my last year’s New Year blog post I see that I did exactly as I had set out to do; make the 2010 MY year… and I succeeded. 2010 really was MY year.
LIFE
So how’s life? Life’s good 🙂
Well not always. I wish life could be moonlit skies, colorful rainbows and meteor showers every day, but sadly this is real life and it’s not. So we’d better get used to it.
I have noticed that I’m slowly changing. I’m getting old here. I now have actual studying to do and a job from 7.00 – 15.00h. (Sadly) Less free time for friends and more daily worries. I miss the time where I didn’t have to worry about money and my spending rate. Life was so much simpler. However, for some strange reason I still prefer the present over the past.
COLLEGE
I’m not in my second year of my ICT studies. Now let me say that what I do is A LOT! At first it was easy, because it was mostly webdesign and as many of you know I already knew quite a lot, but later when I started hearing words like SQL and JAVA, my head went WTF?! But on one stupid silly minor subject I passed all subjects. The other I will do later this year again.
WORK
Things at work have been great. I’ve been working over a year now. I never thought I’d last this long myself. But all’s well that ends well, is what they say. I do admit that this has been the busiest time of my life. With that and school work. But somehow I’m able to manage.
Guess who had a recent promotion?
Great right? Well maybe not THAT great.
Gotta keep in mind that with great power comes great responsibility.
I have a lot more to do now and a lot more responsibility. Thankfully I have someone to back me up and a team that I have trust in. So… LET’S PRAY!!!! Hahaha
FAMILY
Hmm, family? What can I really say about family? There have been the usual rows. Not many worth mentioning. Or maybe, but I’d rather not. Uhm, let’s move on to the next subject shall we?
FRIENDS
I’m very grateful for the friends I have and the ones I’ve made in 2010. I had many crazy times with them. 2010 was for a huge part awesome because of them. The fancy breakfast in the coffee shops, the late night clubbing, dancing, drinking, movies, bowling, chilling etc. It’s fun.
Now that we are all super busy with our own life, the times we spent together are even more amazing.
pAArtying
I never used to be the one to go out that much. It just never thrilled me that much to go out and I didn’t undertstand the concept of getting wasted and suffering hangovers… but in 2010 something happened. I somehow found the party animal that lives within me. Somehow the chains got broken and the animal got unleashed. And he had a very great time.
A reasonable amount of alcohol has been consumed (riiiight), dance floor have been made hot, head has hurt several times and many sleepless nights have been. But it’s all freaking worth it for the years I have spent at home. Time to life the nightlife. And I have the amazing friends, which I mentioned before to thank for ruining my once so peaceful life…. Hahaha, joking.
Party of here!!! w00t w00t <:o)
VACATION
In October 2011 I also went on my first vacation all on my own. I’ve been on many trips before and even flown once alone, but never ALONE. But since I’m a big boy now (LOL) it was time to spread my wings and last October it was just me, myself and I packing my bags, boarding the plane and flying over the big blue all the way to The Netherlands. And there I had the time of my life. It was only 11 shorts days, but 11 shorts days and eternal satisfaction. But what happens in Amsterdam stays in Amsterdam!
Or does that only count for Vegas?
CONCERT
During my vacation I also I one very special memorable moment.
The Tarja Turunen concert I went attended in Tilburg, NL.
Do you know what it’s like to listen to someone’s music over and over again, watch many videos, play the live DVD very loud repeatedly, save many photos on your hard drive and probably have their website as one of FAVORITES… and suddenly BAM!!! … they are standing in the flesh, right in front of you. Probably within touching distance… and you go: “OMG, she’s real!”.
Truly, one of the greatest moments of my life (so far!).
And all it took was a relatively cheap concert ticket, a cab, 2 train rides and another cab to get to the ‘013 pop podium’ in Tilburg, The Netherlands. I still remember every moment like it was yesterday. The excitement I felt, the pain in my throat and legs after the show, how I made my cousin and his friend wait the entire show outside in the blistering cold. 😀 totally worth it and I plan on doing that more often.
LOVE
2010 was quite the year for me in the romance area. I fell in love 3 times.
Before I continue, let me just spoil the ending and tell you that they all FAILED!
Still feel like any further?
You probably should. My ‘love stories’ are seriously-overly-dramatic romance novel material.
Love Story #1
This story began in end of 2009. It started online. The protagonist of this romance novel was madly in love with someone who would have made the PERFECT better half. They probably had more in common than most religions do. However things went nowhere and the main character had to retreat when he noticed the mysterious lover’s heart lied across the ocean at the time.
But don’t worry. They are both still are good friends. 🙂
Love Story #2
This one was quite a big one. Mr. hopeless romantic thought for a while: “finally… this is gonna be perfect. Finally someone worthy of introducing to my friends and family.”
This is quite a long story, you should hear it some time.
But to some it all up. This is a story that started way back in 2008 when there was silent admiring in the shadows involved and finally a twist of fate brought them together on facebook. (The Love Network)
Things went good for a while, and suddenly it didn’t anymore…. The lover’s heart was still broken. So Mr. Hopeless Romantic decided to wait until Heartbroken Lover’s heart was health, but it want from bad from ugly. Let’s keep the story short shall we: Mr. Hopeless Romantic finally had to edit his facebook friend list, delete a phone number and block and email address in order to move on. While he was left with broken dreams, an original DVD of The Phantom of the Opera (which was meant for a romantic date) and feeling weird for a while when going to certain places and while listening to certain songs.
Love Story #3
Out of nowhere the protagonist was love stuck for the third time that year. Unlike he had felt in years. It was all middle school crush again. I’m talking about butterflies in the stomach, sleepless nights and one person on his mind the entire time. It started out as a minor crush suddenly it got HUGE!!!
Remember my facebook status update: “First it was tiny and suddenly it was HUGE!”
Suddenly a fantasy became a reality. Mr. Hopeless Romantic knew that this wasn’t love, but he’d take anything he could get in this uncommon saga. However, fate tried to warn him, yet he did not listen.
Do you believe in fate? I do… most times. And since he refused to listen he ended up with a very ugly scratch on his mom’s car and quite immature reject. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
PLANS FOR 2011
But now it’s 2011 and it’s time to leave behind the past, live in the present and work on the future. It’s time for change… or at least not fall back.
What do I have planned for 2011? Nothing much really!
Just to make 2011 just as epic and awesome as 2010.
But I think I’ve bored you enough with my ongoing words, so I’m going to leave this part about my plans for 2011 for the next post. Hope that you’re willing to read again.
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