Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Shuld Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot…
Heya everyone. I hope y’all had a great Christmas. Mine was fairly peaceful and quiet. An enjoyable few days. But I had to go back to work on the 27th. Oh well.

Oh and sorry to shock you guys with my one-liner post… XP

I travelled up to London on Luna yesterday. It was quite the crazy journey. I normally don’t like to travel to the city centre by road, but I was trying out the commute, seeing if it’s a viable way of getting to work…specially since train fares are going up. It’s a little sketchy, and there’s not much in the way of parking near where I work, but its an option, I guess. It was definitely nice to give Luna a long run, she has had a fairly quiet year. and I enjoyed it too. Kinda nice way to see the city.



So another year has gone past…sometimes I fancy what life would be like if I was immortal. I suspect the years would go by a lot faster. Would I treasure them as much? I dunno.


Anyhoo, I’d like to reflect on the year gone past.

2008 has been a pretty bangin’ year all in all. I can roughly divide my year into three parts… Steel Nation, Camp Pecometh, and The Rest.

I spent January through to May working and spending most of my free time on Steel Nation, an Original Character Mecha Tournament on DeviantArt. I actually did pretty well in it too, getting al the way to the Semi Finals. Not bad for my first OC tournament. I don’t know if I'm gonna compete in any OC tournies this year, but word is Steel Nation 2 might be on the cards…


The bulk of my year was spent in America (May to October almost). I had a FANTASTIC time out there working and hanging out with some very dear friends of mine. It was a long lazy summer, doing something I thoroughly enjoyed and getting paid to do it too. And even after the work was done, I spent two weeks on the road in a rental car, going from place to place, visiting friends and doing stuff. Although I did spend a significant portion of those two weeks on peoples couches, it was still very enjoyable. Road Trippin’ is definitely a great way to get around. Just me, the open road, some tunes and my thoughts…
I’d like to thank all my friends I stayed with, and everyone who made my trip there what it was. So many good times and good memories…2008 will be one of my most treasured summers.

After I came home, it was pretty much straight back to work, and that’s more or less what I’ve been doing from October through to now. I went to Bath to visit my comrade Nic; that was fun. ^^

Other notable events of 2008 were the visits of a lot of my American friends over here! I had Amber over on my birthday, I had Tara over in January or February, and I had my new friend Meredith come over to live in London! I actually seem to be developing something that resembles a social life…perhaps… Also, my older brother is now living in L.A, so that’s another major event of 2008.


Its been a great year for Anime. I got a significant way through Gundam 00 and watched all of Macross Frontier, two most excellent mecha shows. I also saw Gurren Lagann and finally got what all the hype was about. A Fantastic anime.
I managed to finish watching “G Gundam” and “Gundam SEED Destiny”. GG was great, GSD, not so much.
Other new anime include “5 cm a second,”, “Appleseed Ex Machina” “Kino’s Journey” “Rahxephon” “Yozakura Quartet”, “Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid” and “Shugo Chara”. All most excellent anime.

New Manga for this year included “Voices of a Distant Star”, “Change123”, “Black Lagoon”, “Yozakura Quartet” and “Dominion Tank Police”. I also finished reading “Junk”, and got a little further with “Pumpkin Scissors” and “Ecole du Ciel”. All very good reads.

Its also been a pretty damn good year for robot models. XD I got a whole bunch of Gundam 00 models, and a few old school “Nadesico” models. I'm kinda running out of room to put them all… ^^;;; and of the course, the pain in the butt to put together, bitch to pose, but looks so freaking AMAZING Unicorn Gundam MG. ^^


At the beginning of year I put up these resolutions:

1: watch/read/make more Gundam

2: learn to use my graphics tablet



3: get out to america again.

4: sleep more


1 and 3 were accomplished!

2: ehum…needs work…

4: … I slept enough…maybe


So all in all, not a bad year.


Saying that, there were of course some bad parts to the year. Someone close to a good friend of mine died. My Uncle got diagnosed with leukaemia (although he does seem to be doing a lot better now. Yay.) I’ve been posting here less and less. Chibi Darke Days ended its three year run, although that was my doing. I still kinda miss the wee buggers though. I had…relationship issues. Again, mostly my fault. And of course this lovely credit crunch crisis thing that seems to be plaguing everyone as we dive into the new year.

So it hasn’t been the perfect year. but I'm still here. I'm still Gundam Mad. And I still try to fill your screens with random crap every now and then. ^^ and I can definitely say that for a significant portion of the year, I was happy. And if you can claim that, then it definitely hasn’t been a bad year.

I would like to shout out to my friends who still visit this site, particularly Angel Zakuro, Princess Ookumae, Bunraku, sbsp13668, Raina. and to the lesser spotted Purgatory, Jangalian and Travelling Disciple. Thanks for sticking around guys. I appreciate it.

Thanks to my friends who comment on my DA site. Particularly Ookumae, Red Tigress, Shireishou and sbsp13688.

My thousand and one gratitudes and deepest sincerest thanks to some of my best friends in the world, Chrissy, Mindy, Amber…special thanks to the Craft family for putting me up for a week. and double thanks to Red Tigress who put me up at such short notice. You guys are amazing and I love you for it.

I hope you all had fantastic Christmases and that you all have a great New Years celebration. I shall endeavour to continue posting on a semi-regular basis in the new year. I hope you shall continue to visit.

And I sincerely hope, with all my heart, that as we leave this old year behind and the planet begins the cycle once again, that you had a most wonderful 2008. and that 2009 will bring you Wealth, Health, Peace, Love and above all, Happiness.

To you, my friends, I raise my glass. Cheers. God bless you all.



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