Ni hao everyone^^ Happy New Year! Ah~ Smell that? It's the air of 2010. A new fresh start to what we all hope to be a better year. I send out all my best wishes to my family, whom are currently in Florida and I hope they are having a blast! I love you all and miss you more than anything. Can't wait to come back on the 20th. Oh yeah, did I mention I'm returning to Greece for 3 weeks? Yeap! Also, my best wishes go out to my all my friends back at home! Missing you guys loads too! Sorry I'm not on MSN frequently but I'm doing my best.
So what about my new year's? Well, I spent it with the three lovely ladies in the picture above. After some less than awkward conversation blended in a mix of broken (on their part) English and hideously broken (on my part) Chinese I taught them some really basic poker. We had a lot of laughs! It was a great start to what I'm hoping to be a better year. 2009 was just...meh. As for my resolutions, read after the jump.
For starters, I'm not one for resolutions really. Maybe because sometimes I tend to not follow them and other times I just plain change it all up along the way. So I decided that this year will be no different. I'll make them and then whatever will be will be. It's worked out for me so far. I'm alive, I'm healthy, I have an amazingly supportive family, I have the most fun friends in the world, I've got the best girlfriend I can possibly hope for and, most importantly, I'm me. I like me. And these people like me too. So why change? If it ain't broke don't fix it, right? Well ok, there's always room for some improvement and tweaking. I'm not big headed nor some elitist jerk. But I do have the confidence that ME as ME can go a long way.
First off, I plan to stick to one of my most crucial changes. I will not smoke anymore. I've been doing it for awhile now and I plan on keeping it that way. Ever since I got over that 1-week-hump of frustration (the horror!) I can safely say that I feel happier, stronger and, believe it or not, more stress free. Now of course it ain't over 100% yet. I still can't brush off completely the smell of that sweet...ahem...disgusting smoke every time I have a smoker standing next to me puffing away. I also cheated. Yes, I admit it right here for all the world to see. I bumped a Marlboro Light's from one my Korean classmates. I was ashamed and disappointed in myself. But the fight goes on! I urge you all to do the same. Especially YOU (you know who you all are). This is a resolution I will darn right stick to.
Second, I will try to think more outside the box. What does that mean? Well, it differs from situation to situation really. For me here it mostly means, I will not look at my degree and think "Hm, I will be a manager". In all honesty, I don't want to be a manager in another person's company. Why? Because in most cases those managers end up losing their souls. They become mean evil dictators because they have to play by rules set by someone else. I'm a firm believer that each person should stand by their own beliefs and resolves. OK, I've taken this too far. My point is I won't lock myself down to just what a piece of paper says. I'll find my path by expanding my field of vision.
Third, and I know my bro's gonna scoff at this yet again, I will find the discipline I need to finally learn to play SOMETHING on my Epifone Les Paule. I know I know shame shame shame and I should be thrown into the deepest darkest pit for letting such a beauty sit there without being caressed and loved. Seriously, I don't know what it is but I get extremely discouraged very quickly. Maybe I haven't found the right way yet. But I haven't given up the search yet.
Forth, and this is for me exclusively really, I will be a way better fighting game's player. I love the scene and watching players here just gave me that urge I had back when I was part of the Greek Dojo community. I don't care if I become the best or what have you. I like playing Street Fighter and others of the sort. Their fun games and be a very interesting hobby if you get into them a little more deeply then just mashing away buttons (which undeniably can be fun as well).
Fifth, I will lose more weight. That's pretty much all there is to say about this. I'm still not where I want to be (believe me I'm pretty far off) and I'm pretty sure my trip back to Greece is gonna set me back (Curse you Simply Burgers with your unbelievably juicy and delicious...burgers!)
Finally, concerning social networks and my...not so social "behavior" the past few months. I have managed to find a general pace in my life here so from now on I'll be doing some more posting. But I also have a few things in mind I want to do for the blog. I won't say now but whatever I end up doing I hope you all will like.
So that's it from me for now! I'll catch you all on my next post!
Yannis
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