Monday, December 31, 2007

wait.....WHAT?!




Ok, ok, ok, SERIOUSLY… WHERE THE FLIPPIN HECK HAS 2007 GONE?


Jeez. Its like I went to bed in January, got up for the summer, went back to bed in October and woke up to find it was Christmas. Jeez. This year has gone by so friggin fast, I blinked and missed two thirds of it.


Anyways, it’s the last day of the year, and so it is time for me to reflect on another year gone by (the parts which I remember anyways…)

Oh, btw, I know I said I’d post on Boxing Day (the day after Christmas) but apparently I lied. I do that.


2007 has been a good year for me all in all. Its been a good year for travel (though not quite as good as 2006 was), its been a good year for comics and art, its been a good year for anime and manga, and its been a FANTASTIC year for Gundam. XD but I digress…


Highlight of the year has to be the summer I spent in America (for the third year running) at Camp Pecometh (for the first time evah!) and then travelling on afterwards. I had such a great time, made some excellent friends and it really made my year. I enjoyed it so much I hope to return in 2008! I also had a great time visiting my friends across the states. Once Again, a huge thank you to Cee-Kari and the TN gang for putting me up (and putting up with me!) at such short notice. You guys are the best.

This year also see me quit my crappy hospital catering job and start a new job at Cotswolds Outdoor Store in Covent Garden! I also started Kung-Fu this year too, and am looking forward to continuing it.


Chibi Darke Days did pretty well this year, particularly with the Super Size Swap Saga! And I also made my first manga this year, my Gundam SCROLL manga, which came second place in a competition! Which pleased me greatly. ^^

Art/story wise has been pretty good, I started a new project this year called VIRTUE, which admittedly is still in the planning stages, but I'm getting somewhere with it. I dunno how far I'm gonna take it, but I'm just letting things run its course for now.

Anime and Manga did fairly well this year. New Anime I saw this year (and some that aren’t new, but I finally got round to watching)

Black Lagoon
Tenchi Muyo Ryo Ohki
GITS Solid State Society
Zeta Gundam
Gundam X
Turn A Gundam
Gundam 00 (I told you it was a good year for Gundam!)
Patlabor
Outlaw Star
Macross Dynamite 7

And new manga series for this year included:

Translucent
Junk
All new Tenchi Muyo
GITS Human Error Processor
Kimi no Kakera

So not bad all in all.

Oh! And I got a pretty decent haul in for Christmas too! Here’s my swag list:

Wacom Graphics Tablet!
Master Grade 1/100 scale Zaku IIS ver 2
Pirates of the Carribean 3 DVD
Transformers Movie (the live action one) DVD

And a plethora of smaller things, including a mini boomerang kit. Go figure.

And its my birthday in under a weeks time. I will be 21 (TWENTY-ONE!) years old on the 6th January. Heh heh, I wont say I'm getting old though, cuz I know a bunch of my friends here on MyO are older than me. XD

Of course, there’s been some bad things this year too. The most prominent of these being my Granddad’s death. But life (ironically) goes on. The other major suckage of 2007 is the closing down of the swimming pool where I used to go to snorkelling club. However, there is nothing I can do about it, and I will endeavour to make the most out of the new pool (when I'm not working till 8pm on a Friday that is). Oh, and who could forget the Server Crash this year, where we went for almost an ENTIRE WEEK without MyOtaku and TheOtaku. I pray that never happens again, Indeed I am very much looking forward to Version Vibrant!!!

I’ve done a few things this year that were extremely foolish and idiotic, but hopefully that’s all water under the bridge and I will endeavour not to make the same mistakes again.

There have been other ups and downs, new friends and companions made and old ones lost or at the very least, unfrequented.
my thanks and salutations to:

AleXavier
Angel Zakuro
Chie
Chobit Chi
Clair Chanteur
Dark Phoenix
Grifter99
Haseo luver92
Hassei
Ikyuu-Nyuu-Kon
Living Doll
Lucifers Wife
Master Hiko
Mew Wem
Otemba
Princess Ookumae
Red Tigress
Sbsp13668
Shireishou
TimeChaser
Travelling Disciple
Watasefan
Weaver
Xanth Reborn
and
Yensid

For spending even a fraction of the year with me and making my fourth-going-on-fifth year of blogging here worthwhile. You guys are awesome! In the most literal sense of the word!

Extra Special Shout Outs to
Cee-Kari,
Mitzy,
Flueky,
Ryuu-Kiba
And my dear Onee-sama: Sailor Firestar

I know for one reason or another you all haven’t been on MyO much, if at all, this past year, but yet again for another year you have made a significant impact in my life and I value you all as dear friends. Thank You for all you have given me.

and a shout out to Raina. for insanely long MSN conversations. For both our Lunas. And for always being there when I needed a friend.





And so, with a raise of my glass in toast, I bid farewell to 2007 and give it my thanks. For a fast and sudden as it was, it was, in the words of Frank Sinatra, A Very Good Year.


I leave you with this photo I took the other day. I had arrived in London early before my shift was due to start, so I wandered around Covent Garden. Very often you’ll find street performers in Covent Garden and this one guy was standing there in the cold clear day just strumming away and singing his songs. Not cover songs you understand, his own stuff. And, as he so wryly commented, that was probably why no one was applauding him. It was good music, and so I gave him a quid. (one English pound, equal to 2 US Dollars) and I took a picture. He seemed to be the sort of guy who wasn’t out there to make money, but just to share his music with the world. I respect that.



Happy New Year Everybody. Let 2008 be the year all your dreams and aspirations come true.





LOOK UP! THE SKY IS WHERE OUR DREAMS ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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