Thursday, January 01, 2009
00:07:00
Well then, 2009 is here.This time last year I was filled with drive and fire, because I really wanted to put my years (two, actually) of mediocrity behind me. I was heading in a totally new direction, one very alien yet full of possibilities at the same time.As we head into 2009, I'm more mellow. It's been a year of self-confirmation, in a way. I know now, for sure, that I'm intelligent, and the only thing holding me back most of the time is my laziness. I've confirmed many beliefs previously left unsupported. I've overcome yet another mental barrier in recent times, something that, I have to admit, I really didn't see coming at all, mainly because I had set out with one of my main goals being 'a simpler life' after all the mess of secondary school.So it's just another couple of months and then I'll be finished with my first year of poly. Time flies. Can remember when I first got Ventrilo and started making a couple of new friends in Ying Wei and Vishal. I remember thinking Vishal was a dark-skinned Indian, something quite the opposite of what he is in real life. I remember all the times I went out with Boon, the semi-regular (once every hols) meet-ups with Shi Kai and Abby, and a whole load of other stuff.2008 really went by quite quickly for me. Maybe that's partially due to the fact that I spent a quarter of it doing fuck all (the first three months of the year was hols for us poly-joining people), but it sure seemed to go by fast.I end it with a much more stable life (albeit probably more boring), surrounded by few but extremely reliable friends. A year past and the choices I've made haven't been wrong. Confidence is at an all-time high; things have happened which have challenged me mentally but I've come through them scarred but not beaten.2009 will be another year of change, I think. A quarter of the way in and I'll be in a class where I probably won't know most everybody. That's the only thing I can think of at the moment, but life is highly unpredictable, as the past month or two has shown me, so just about anything can happen.Here's hoping there's substantially more good stuff than bad stuff then. Cheers everybody, and have a good year ahead :)