Looking back on 2006....into 2007

So theres roughly a month and change til the year ends and I was thinking of what I will remember the year for:

Kobe's 81 point game,



making contact with MusiQ



or getting a nice part-time job at the hospital?



I suppose the point of this thread is for anyone to post what 2006 will be remembered as the year of or mean to them. Anything cool about the year really...just share it.


Edit: Flite's comment on 2007 let me add that aspect to the thread. You can also write what your looking forward to in 2007 if you like.

Last edited by dada on Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:27 am, edited 2 times in total.

Cool idea for a thread dada

Mine:

Seeing my Dad again

Ruining my knees

Working with/for Big Fase 100

Doing a high ropes course that scared the shit out of me and tested my limits

Being cut from my school team for fucked up reasons

Some awesome parties

... All in all it was a pretty shit year for me. Health problems and school fucked it all up, but friends are there when you need them. Good times, bad times. 2007 should be a good one.

Nice idea for a thread.

2006 started off as any other year.

Highlight of January would probably just be my grandfather's birthday, on the first of Jan.

February had my grandparents come over here and spend a week and fligh through to India with my mom and my eldest sister.

February, March and April I stayed home by myself, it was awesome having the house to myself. Mid April the family came back and stayed till mid May.

On the 19th of May it was my birthday, we went out for dinner and stuff.

June came and went by, it was warming up over here, so that was pleasant. I started playing ball outdoors again and I worked overhours.

July came...school kicked into the fifth gear and it got busy. Mid July I heard I'd passed but I just needed one more subject to be able to be able to do my masters right away instead of my bachelours.

August second, wednesday night it was, one of the rare nights when me, both my sisters and both my brother in law's were off from work. Us all + mom headed over to the movies to catch Pirates 2. The movie was alright and I'd expected more.
At around 12 it finished, we were headed home when me and my brother in law decided we wanted ribs. The elder sister + her bf went home.
After we got our spare ribs, it was around 1 a.m if I'm not mistaken...my brother in law got a call from my other brother in law. He was vague and jsut said to come over.

I figured he'd hit my sister or something. We headed up and she burst out in tears...then she told my mom her dad had passed away. We saw him healthy and fit 4 months ago.

Anyways, that night was the worst night in my life.

August 3rd we left Holland, 4th we arrived, the next Saturday he was cremated.

We stayed there for 5 weeks, and headed back over here.

Since then we've just been running on autopilot. My grandmom reached here a few weeks ago and she's been spending time with us. January mom, grandmom and sis will head to India to sell the remaining piece of land.

For 2007, I don't know...I just hope it doesn't pull any more fucking surprises on me. I'm going to kick some fucking ass if it does.

Hm,

Graduating High School.
Getting an XBox 360
Turning 18.
Not going to college.
The horriffic NBA Live 07.
Camping out to preorder thw Wii.
Buying the Wii.
Breaking up with my g/f.
Going back out with my g/f.
Getting My Licence.
Posting at the NLSC a total of 8 times

Nice thread indeed.

11th of January 2006, I finished my military service, one of the most happiest days of my life. Since then it was pretty much downslide as I couldn't get hold of any things I should have done, like applied to another universities, getting a jobs etc.

Summer 2006, we went to Toronto once more, me and my family I love those moments. Summer continued, long days of streetball since the sun doesn't go down. Until they tore the court apart

Autumn 2006, I moved away from home, started my uni studies.

Random events in 2006 I will remember : Kobe's 81, Miami winning the 'chip, Toronto Blue Jays once again fall short, my grandfather had a vicious heart attack but survived it, PS3 release

I hope I can earn some money early in 2007, but I'm not into money that much these days... I dunno. Just to maintain my way of living easy without losing time into things I don't wan't. Also I'd like to avoid the payment you have to make for the government just because you own a TV. That's totalitarism. I don't even watch their channels!

edit. I won't add get a 360 to my list since I'll be getting it earlier

Oh yea, please EA, make Live 08 playable.

2006 was a pretty boring year like most of the others. The only thing I can remember is staying up late watching basketball, and taking more hard classes than I should. I got a part time job this past summer and saved up all my money for college... I will probably do that again in 2007, except get a job earlier this time.

Also, I started selling stuff on ebay (sparked by donatello talking about it here), so hopefully I can use that for some income too. Basically my life revolves around television, and schoolwork. Hope i can get into Carolina...

Other highlights:

Miami winning the championships
Being elected to student government
Democrats taking the house and senate

We headed up and she burst out in tears...then she told my mom her dad had passed away. We saw him healthy and fit 4 months ago.

Always sad when someone dies.

Its kinda odd but every time I hear a story about a father dying it has been during the summer. My dad died during the summer, my girlfriend's, my childhood friend's, a a couple friends from college also (their dad). Theres something about these summers man....global warming?!!

Dada, I also think it has something to do with global warming,the sad part is that no one really gives a shit about it,well sometimes they do,but still . The summers are getting hotter and must old people can't take the heat.My dad ,who is 56 said " I don't know what some of these guys are thinking,its 40 celcius and they are still working as slaves ."

Now looking back on 2006,it was a so so year.There were good times and there were shit times.Now let me see.

-Start of the year was awesome,I got to know a lot of people that I'm pretty close to now

-Changing my basketball club, I think that was pretty needed

-I kept my focus on school and kept my grades,even though I am only 13,its hard to keep the motivation up.

-The start of the summer was good,but then I broke my leg and had to spend time in the hospital

-So time passed and school started again,I'm not complaining about it for once,so that is a heads up

-In September my uncle died,I was a mess for two weeks it was shit ,I started to question my decisions

-Random things: Miami won the NBA,started to watch NFL,my taste of music changed ..

-Present day: Pretty happy where I am currently,but it could be better
Looking forward to 2007,hopefully its going to be a good year.

Thinking about 2006 there are 4 things that I will defintely remember the year for:

- turning 18,

- having the best vacation of my life spending one week in Paris with my girl,

- generally spending a whole lot of time with my girl and celebrating our 1st anniversary,

- going to Croatia with my biology class and instead of studying we partied every day for one week.

2006 started as the previous four years had started. I used to be one of those stupid dumbass Italian kids that only think about superficial things and hang out with others only if they're "cool" and dress like you.
I turned fourteen years old on January the 1st and my ex-girlfriend made me get drunk so that she could tell me that she was having sex with another dude and that she didn't intend to hurt me but she wanted to finish our relationship. She obviously had to tell me every single thing again, the day after because I couldn't remember anything since I was drunk. Thanks to her I had the worst birthday of my life and now I am terribly afraid of even talking to people of the opposite sex.
On January the 7th, Christmas break from school finished and classes started again. The first thing I remember to happen that day was that my stupid Maths teacher put an F on my test just "because I used to get F's so she thought it wouldn't be necessary to even see if the test was correct" (I studied a lot for that test and I deserved a B but that ugly bitch just wanted to ruin my life so she put an F on the test). Fortunately, apart from Maths, I did well at school, last year.
In February I decided to quit the U16 team (I was playing with both the U14 and U16 team) to concentrate on the U14 since we had chance to enter the playoffs (we were second and usually only the first team in the championship enters the playoffs). I told the U16 team that I would play my last game with his team that season the next Sunday (I decided to play with the U16 but I also had to play with the U14 that day, don't ask me why I chose to play with U16). As soon as the U16 game finished, I received a call from the U14 coach, who told me that he didn't want me to play for his team anymore and that he could win the championship without me; he wanted to tell me other things too but I hung up on him. I stayed away from basketball for about two months and I focused on school since it was my last year of Junior High and I had to pass some exams and get accepted before doing the inscription to High School.
In March I returned to the U16 team and after a few games I was one of the two starting guards. I helped the team won the city championship and entering the regional playoffs. We finished second in the region and we couldn't access the national championship so we started the spring championship and finished first in the city and first in the region, becoming the best team in CSI U16 championships in 2005/2006.
As soon as the summer started and my basketball club closed its doors, I fell into depression and I started to do nothing all day, I started to stay up all night and sleep during the day, I started eating a lot...to say it in a few words: I started screwing up my life.
I gained about 6 kilograms and I only grew one or two centimetres in height (I went from 178-9 cm to 180cm) during the summer and I haven't started dieting yet so I still have all that fat in my body (I weigh at about 81kg right now and I'm 180cm tall)...
Plus, everything around me seems to be so fake, so sad, so dead, so monotonous, like a black and white picture: everyone wants to be the same as the "cool" guy and at the same time the "cool" guy is just imitating someone else. It's like everyone is doing something or acting in a determinate way just because everybody else is doing it and they think it is "cool". People have no personality anymore, they're just acting/being/dressing like everybody else and sometimes they loose theirselves. I think that only happens here, I mean, anywhere else you see kids acting like older kids just because "being older is cool" but when you enter school you don't see everyone dressed the same way, doing the same things, listening to the same crap music, insulting the teacher the same way, getting high or smoking in the bathroom just because everybody else does it. And when you try explaining to them that they're not therselves if they act the way everybody else does, they reply telling you something like "You can't say a word because you listen to rock...and rock sucks". People is so ignorant and stupid that it makes me wanna either kill myself or kill everybody that is under thirty years old of age. With my friends, I keep hiding what I really am (I pretend to be the person I was a year ago) just to not be alone...
Another thing that is happening to me recently is that I am coming to understand how shitty is the country I live in compared to other countries like Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK (easily the best countries in Europe), the US and Canada (easily the best countries in the world...at least in my opinion). I mean, Milan is claimed to be one of the best cities in Europe, but I've been living in it for about five years now and I can say, without any doubt, that when you live in it and you come to know where actually people lives (as a tourist you will only get to see museums and the centre of the city: the Cathedral and the Sforza's Castle area mainly) you come to know that this city is not what it is believed to be. I personally hate the way people live here, always eating pasta, focaccia, pizza and other crappy stuff, always in hurry, always having to deal with traffic issues; if you take the underground and it is in the peek hours, there is a chance that you die suffocated...same with other public transportation services. You wake up in the morning and you can't be happy because you don't get to see the sun or the blue sky (the sun isn't visible because we always have fog in the morning and the sky doesn't look blue anymore because of the big pollution-related problems we have here) or simply just a grass garden or nice buildings (you may also know that there are only like less than fourty non-apartment-houses in Milan and 65% of the buildings were built from the 1800's to the 1960's.). All you see in this city, apart from the buses, trams, etc. that are orange or green, is gray...it gets you depressed. I really need a break from this city, from this reality so I think I could move to the US or Canada since my English has improved a little (or not). That truly is the only good news for me in the whole year.
As you can see, 2006 was a GREAT year for me: so great that it made me write this long-ass post about it.
The only thing I want from 2007 is a single-no-return ticket to California, a job and a house there. I really don't want anything else.
I'm sorry if I annoyed you with this crappy post, but I didn't have anything else to do so I wrote it... Meh, you probably didn't read it so whatever...

Last edited by Joe' on Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I read it, seems like things are getting down for you. I feel the same about my city, its grey skies, ugly girls (for the most part), wannabe Crip and Blood hoodrats, skinheads, smart ass boy racers, and "tough guys"... Yet I live in New Zealand, supposedly one of the most beautiful countries in the world. I know that outside of the city its nice, but ever since I was 6 or 7 years old I always felt as though I should be living the USA.

I used to carry round this little folder at school with facts and pictures about Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Miami and other big cities in America that I really wanted to go to. I only follow American music, watch American shows and play American sports. It's annoying not being able to be there.

If I were you I would try make the most of every day, when your at home doing nothing, take a bus into town and hang out, look at shops or something. On weekends take every opportunity to hang out with friends or socialize as much as possible because if you don't you'll be like I was for a couple of months, just not wanting to do anything and getting bored, losing friends. I really wouldn't worry so much about everybody else, especially to the point of becoming depressed, because you can't change how people act. Trust me, when I was 13-14 everyone wanted to be like the older kids, but over time that will go away and people will become themselves.

I still see it now at 17, all the new entrants at school walking round in 50 cent t shirts, making themselves look plain silly, throwing up gang signs (eventually to the wrong person, who doesn't care how old the kid is they still got a beating). While the flat chested, toothpick thighed girls run round in miniskirts and skimpy tops... no one wants to see that, your 13, put whatevers there away. Hell, your year 9 boyfriend probably hasn't noticed his dick yet.

Anyway, just remember your only 14 and you have plenty of teenage years left of fun and mischief before you enter adult hood and really start understanding what life is about. Hope 2007 is better for you.

Person that writes in red, I just read bits and pieces of your post, the fact you didn't use paragraphs just frustrated me in to not reading it.

One part I read is you calling the Netherlands a great country. That really made me stop reading. I was too busy dying of laughter.

I'm not sure if you noticed, but thats joe. I spent a while trying to figure that out actually

It's still too early, but I'll remember this year as the year that I graduated, became a man (been 18 for two weeks now), had a big relationship fall apart, and discovering some things about me that I didn't knew.

Joe, you would fit in well with the "emo" crowd we have here in the States. Things are tough all over, bud.

Well:

January: Don't really remember much, but went over to my friends house erday and played video games. After basketball, aint much to do.

February: The Super Bowl, sisters boyfriend came over and we had a hella good time. They broke up about a month after this. He was a cool guy, but I was taller than him.

March: Baseball started up, not much else to say.

April: Cardinals started playen, fans started gettin pumped up about it. Broke my finger in this month though. I had my surgery on the exact day of the NFL Draft. I got out quick enough to watch the whole 8 hours.

May: Boring ass month, but school was let out. Always fun to start summer break. Painted our house, so that was kinda cool.

June: Damn, I have nuthin for this month. Went over to my friends house everyday and played baseball/football/soccer/basketball. We did it all.

July: Went on a vaca to San Fran and Los Angeles. The best vacation that I have ever had. Had a hella good time.

August: School was about to start up again and pumped as hell to get back with the girl I liked. We hooked up shortly after. School baseball started

September: My birthday, and pretty cool overall month; baseball, football starts

October: Basketball season is the best, and the NBA season starts

November: Basketball season.

He was a cool guy, but I was taller than him.

What the fuck?

That vacation would have been awesome

I got my apartment flooded on the last fucking day of 2005. I moved back finally at the beginning of last month, after living with my grandparents for 2 months, and then living in a temporary apartment until then.

Damn.

The big thing for me this year was travelling overseas for the first time. It certainly wasn't a traditional holiday abroad given that it only lasted a few days and it involved a couple of days at a video game development studio but it was an awesome experience and the price was right.

I got my apartment flooded on the last fucking day of 2005. I moved back finally at the beginning of last month, after living with my grandparents for 2 months, and then living in a temporary apartment until then.

Damn.

You're like 12?

I'm not sure if you noticed, but thats joe. I spent a while trying to figure that out actually

Surpried thats him...thats alot of stress for one fourteen yr old. Ah well, moving to California wont be much better.

I got my apartment flooded on the last fucking day of 2005. I moved back finally at the beginning of last month, after living with my grandparents for 2 months, and then living in a temporary apartment until then.

Damn.

You're like 12?

I'm 16. Why don't you do drop the 12 shit?

If you'd drop the acting like a 12 year old, perhaps I would.

Dipshit.

Nothing special... Can never remember anything after like a week. I do remember spending time at a girl's house that I really like, but that's probably the only thing that sticks out in my mind.

If you'd drop the acting like a 12 year old, perhaps I would.

Dipshit.

How am I acting like a 12 year old? By getting my apartment flooded from Mother Nature? Did I step on your shoes? Are you gonna complain to Mommy that my posting doesn't live up to your so-called "Elite Posting Standards"?

I just came in here to post something relative to this fucking topic, and then I get criticized for it because I sound like a 12 year old? What the fuck? Do you want me to get on my knees and suck your cock or something?

I think you should get that sand out of your vagina, before it gives you some type of infection of sorts.