2009
This year has been totally crazy for me. 2009 must have been the denser, richer and faster year of my life. What are you supposed to do once you had the best time of your life? Sometimes I feel bad because the future won’t be as cool as this year, probably. But right now I’m just enjoying the memories of the great moments I had. I feel lucky and grateful, I guess I’ll try to be a better human being somehow. Here’s a little list of the cool things that happened to me this year:
- Flo & I spent two months in Japan
- Thus, we climbed Mt. Fuji at night and watched the sunrise at the top, then went down using the Gotemba Trail which is basically a 2300+ meters ash slope
- We’ve done an awesome karaoke night in Shibuya with friends until 5am (I could talk for hours about Japan)
- I got a fucking GUNDAM
- We got attacked by monkeys
- I couchsurfed a lot
- I ate the best sushis ever in Nishi-Chiba, like 20 meters away from the station, crazy owner, free sweet potatoe shochu from Yakushima
- I’ve been to Yakushima, there was no rain for 3 days
- I tasted Okonomiyaki
- I have been to awesome places in Japan: Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Sendai, Obuse, Matsushima and of course Tokyo
- I had a Full-English breakfast in St. James’s Park
- I saw Hattie again (2 times!)
- I saw Jane’s Addiction live for the second time
- I had the best internship ever working with incredible people on my second favorite topic of research: cementitious materials
- I can now say that I have topics of research
- I graduated, no more bullshit courses
- I moved in my (almost) own apartment with Flo
- I watched the Godfather trilogy over a week-end
- My voice was recorded by a cool Japanese/Londoner artist for a cool project
- I played the coolest board-games ever
- I became a sweet potatoe fries master
- I read pretty good books, including my new favorite contemporary novel: Killing Yourself To Live
- I went back to Mamalina and ate their 5 cheeses pasta
- We got our first Christmas tree
- I played bass during a Deerhunter concert
- I met new interesting people
- blah blah blah
Well, I guess I found my own way, professionally and personally, I feel kind of useful for the first time in my life. Flo is still my favorite person in the world, I couldn’t think of a better partner in crime to spend my life with. If I could wish for things to happen next year, that would be: succeed in my research, go to more concerts, travel with Flo in the US, visit my brother in Montreal, read more books (other than textbooks), play with a band again. Well, long post.
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