Happy New Year everybody. It is new year’s eve 2012! Things have been kind of down for me lately.. Perhaps from travel withdrawal and the realization that another year has past and I still have the same vapid job. A year ago I quit my job to go backpacking and now I’m still at the place I went back to. Weird. The worst is not knowing what I want to do next, so time just slips by as I am carried by the current of time. But I don’t want to be a downer for my last post of the year here. Instead, I want to reflect on some of the great things I’ve done this year:
1. Backpacking in Australia – Meeting amazing people from around the world and meeting Jay at the Adelaide Big Day Out concert. Thank you. And seeing Uluru (Ayers Rock) was both spiritual and hugely triumphant for me.
2. Eating at new restaurants in Toronto, New York and abroad – I love food, it is the reason I can never be skinny. Trying new places with friends brings me one of my greatest joys in life.
3. Cruise to Bermuda – Meeting the people I worked for face to face was amazing. I may not have been familiar with all of them but they were all extremely warm and friendly people. Tanning on their famous pink sand beaches was pretty awesome too..
4. Road trip to Chicago – It was a semi-spur of the moment thing with my dad. I decided to get out of town for a week and we settled on Chicago. It turned out to be one of the best trips I’ve ever had. Chicago is an incredible city on the rise.
5. Live Concerts/ Shows – This year was filled with concerts and I am increasingly starting to realize how much I love seeing these spectacles. Lady Gaga, Lion King, Michael Jackson’s Immortal Tour Cirque, Coldplay @MuchMusic, Lady Gaga @MMVA’s, Watch the Throne in Toronto AND Vancouver, and last but not least Rammstein and Tool at Big Day Out.
There are hundreds of things that I did not mention here but I have not forgotten them. This year has been good to me and I only hope next year will be better. If the world’s going to end, I want to go out on a bang. Here’s to having more good times and spending more dollars to keep the economy floating! Cheers mates.
