Year of the Rabbit – thank you!

Sooo….. I guess a recap on the last day of the year is appropriate. The thing is, I’m too lazy to write lengthy stuff, so I’ll be blunt… again.

2011 started a bit shitty, and was shitty more or less the entire first 6 months. But by the end it got pretty freaking good, so I’m overall positive about everything. Yeah, I lost some friends, got others back, made new ones, and my heart is finally happy, so I can say 2011 didn’t totally suck. To the ones I hurt – I’m sorry; to the ones that hurt me – you’re forgiven; to the ones that make me happy – keep doing it! As for resolutions – I can’t really think of any. I only wish to graduate with a nice degree and have more luck in that area. And write some scribbles soon. Oh, yeah, and I also want for the world not to end, ‘cause I’m attending an afterparty in 2013 and really wish to go.

Well, that’s enough from me. Have fun, all you unfortunate enough to read this, and I’ll be back sometime these days, again with the first 3 songs listened to during the new year. 2011, I thank you kindly, 2012 – please be as kind. See you all next year!

Ho-ho, yo-yo!

I’m gonna be very brief – because I’m too lazy to write. So – Merry Christmas to all the Christians, Happy Hanukkah to all the Jewish, Happy Kwanzaa to all African-Americans, and to all the atheists like me – have a nice day! Hope everyone is having fun, getting whatever you wished for, having lots of snow, and don’t go too far with the Christmas dinner and drinking. Happy Hallowmass!

P.S. – You didn’t think you’d get away without my disaster piece, did you?

'Twas the NightMare before Christmas, when all through the loss not a creature was stirring, not even a ghost.
The stockings were hung by the chimney without care, in hopes that Sandy Claws soon would be there...
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, "Terrible Christmas to all, and to all a good fright!

P.S. 2 – And I wanna wish Tuomas Holopainen from Nightwish a very happy Birthday, because he’s one of the few people because of whom I still believe in music – thank you!

“Only the weak are not lonely”

I’m not dead, in case anyone’s started to worry. I just didn’t have time to write here, I’ve been busy with uni work and being happy. Basically that’s it, nothing ground-breaking has happened, but you’ll get a recap anyway.
University stuff is almost done, I’m starting the interviews for my dissertation tomorrow, extremely excited about that – I’m dying to talk about music anyway, so that’s gonna be fun. After that I need to transcribe them (or at least start, it’s really tedious) and I’m off to home on Friday. The last course work is being submitted tomorrow, it’s a research proposal for a study that we’re interested in but won’t conduct ourselves. I never thought I’d get that interested in robotics and artificial intelligence, but the cognitive part of it seems really fascinating, especially the implications of human cognition in robots. When I did the presentation at my seminar, I feared that I’m talking complete nonsense and my idea is physically impossible. However, I got only positive comments from my peers and couldn’t stop smiling the entire day. Let’s hope my teacher’s mark will be nice too.
As for the “being happy” part – well, that’s not really your business, I just wanted to let the evil wishers know I’m doing okay, so – BOOYA!

However, one thing that contributed to me being happy was FINALLY getting my hands on Nightwish’s Imaginaerum yesterday. The ones who know me have probably guessed I haven’t stopped listening to it and won’t stop at least for the next month. It’s absolutely brilliant, lyrically and musically, and especially vocally – Marco sounds great as usual, and so does Anette. I never thought I’d say that, I wasn’t a big fan of hers, but her voice is amazing in this album. I fell in love with Slow, Love, Slow – it has such a dark jazz vibe, plus her singing… absolutely stunning. I can’t wait for the movie now, I’m sure it will be magical as well.

Like I said somewhere up there, I’m going home on Friday. It’s gonna be another almost 12-hour wait at the airport, but 3-4 movies should do it. I just hope nothing will screw up, because my rule number 1 is: Always assume the worst so it doesn’t happen. No, actually that’s my second rule, the first one is “Always look up” (I don’t know why, don’t ask). And then home for an entire month to pester my puppy! I might even get some snow, if it decides to get colder.
Still no new scribbles, haven’t been in a creative mood lately. At least you don’t get to read crap, haha! So I guess that’s all for now, the next post will fly from home… so all the volcanoes better watch out! Alrighty, bye-bye!