Hey you, 2006.
It's an hour away to the new year and the perfect time for casual bloggers like me to blog about another non-event that is 2006. While others eagerly await countdowns and new year parties, I spent this morning at a stuffy 6-hour bengkel session listening to a Maniam dude explain about the innards of a Kancil. I'm also almost sure that I've gotten 5 shades darker and signed myself up for skin cancer in the near future. =)
On a [questionably] brighter note, I saved my dad from a fashion faux pas early today. He actually attempted to go to work wearing a blue-striped white shirt matched with a brown-spotted yellow tie. I kid you not. Good thing I woke up early for breakfast, just in time to save him and make him change his tie. I swear, the second I walked into that kitchen and caught sight of him placidly drinking his tea, my eye started twitching, I sneezed six times and broke out into a rash. My mom tried to be diplomatic by squinting and eventually saying that the look was an acquired taste, but by this time, the rash was really starting to bother me. Hahah.
Now. No turn-of-the-year post would be complete without a raw, soul-searching evaluation of 2005 and an astute and bitingly witty prediction of 2006. So here goes.
A raw, soul-searching evaluation of 2005
1. I discovered the tantalizing, titillating, smutty world of slash. [My fiercely straight male friends may choose to skip to item 2 now.] Girls, trust me on this, slash is good for you. And we can pretend that because it's in written form, sometimes with brilliant and complex plot and character development, it's wayy more high class than porn, or what ex0 and I euphemize as 'freeable space' on any guy's HDD. >=) And since it's the 21st century, we can stop pretending that we don't have sex drives too. Mmmmmrosenbaum.*bonk* XD
2. I finished college and exams and am more than eager to get on with uni and stay on my own in a neat little apartment in the city with modern contemporary decor and stainless steel stoves.
3. I grappled with insecurities, tried to overcome my habit of overreacting, made very few (if any at all) enemies and very good friends. All in all, a very memorable year!
An astute and bitingly witty prediction of 2006
[NB: Because I am shortsighted - left eye 450, right eye 350 - I'll leave the predictions to others =]
1. [Blake Ross: creator of Firefox] Another blog search engine will release a list of top 100 bloggers. Every blogger on the list will blog the news in the form of: “Wow, I’m honored to have made it onto the top 100 list” with a link back to the list maintainer’s blog. The list maintainer will in return blog: “I’m honored to see that the list has been covered by such a high-profile blogger” with a link back to the winner’s blog. The link incest will continue for weeks until it has propelled the list maintainer himself into the top 100, at which point the list will be declared a sham and the blogosphere will erupt in outrage.
2. [Kevin Maney: USATODAY.com] Cellphone cameras will actually become useful. For most consumers, digital cameras on cellphones have turned out to pretty much be vestigial organs. You want a camera on the phone, but the photo quality is marginal. And then pictures end up stuck inside your phone like bugs in a Roach Motel. It's too hard to get them out if you want to print the photos or move them to a PC. So the cameras don't get used much. That will change in the coming year, says Bob Gove of Micron Technology, which makes the imaging chips in most camphones. Cellphone cameras are going to get good enough in 2006 to replace stand-alone digital cameras, Gove predicts. At the same time, companies such as Pictavision are popping up to make it easier to do more with camphone pictures, such as uploading them to the Internet and creating a slide show.
3. [DarkWinter] Google, having acquired Blogspot and Picasa to add to their already illustrious and comprehensive list of services, will finally conquer Wiki after a long and bitter fight involving poison mushrooms and the Association of Communist Wikians. Google will upgrade to God of the Internet and we will be powerless against it. Larry and Sergey will become filthy rich and spend the rest of their days acquiring more companies and living in shameless decadence.
And that's all for the 1st of January, 2006.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! *fireworks* Have a fantastic year ahead! =)
On a [questionably] brighter note, I saved my dad from a fashion faux pas early today. He actually attempted to go to work wearing a blue-striped white shirt matched with a brown-spotted yellow tie. I kid you not. Good thing I woke up early for breakfast, just in time to save him and make him change his tie. I swear, the second I walked into that kitchen and caught sight of him placidly drinking his tea, my eye started twitching, I sneezed six times and broke out into a rash. My mom tried to be diplomatic by squinting and eventually saying that the look was an acquired taste, but by this time, the rash was really starting to bother me. Hahah.
Now. No turn-of-the-year post would be complete without a raw, soul-searching evaluation of 2005 and an astute and bitingly witty prediction of 2006. So here goes.
A raw, soul-searching evaluation of 2005
1. I discovered the tantalizing, titillating, smutty world of slash. [My fiercely straight male friends may choose to skip to item 2 now.] Girls, trust me on this, slash is good for you. And we can pretend that because it's in written form, sometimes with brilliant and complex plot and character development, it's wayy more high class than porn, or what ex0 and I euphemize as 'freeable space' on any guy's HDD. >=) And since it's the 21st century, we can stop pretending that we don't have sex drives too. Mmmmmrosenbaum.*bonk* XD
2. I finished college and exams and am more than eager to get on with uni and stay on my own in a neat little apartment in the city with modern contemporary decor and stainless steel stoves.
3. I grappled with insecurities, tried to overcome my habit of overreacting, made very few (if any at all) enemies and very good friends. All in all, a very memorable year!
An astute and bitingly witty prediction of 2006
[NB: Because I am shortsighted - left eye 450, right eye 350 - I'll leave the predictions to others =]
1. [Blake Ross: creator of Firefox] Another blog search engine will release a list of top 100 bloggers. Every blogger on the list will blog the news in the form of: “Wow, I’m honored to have made it onto the top 100 list” with a link back to the list maintainer’s blog. The list maintainer will in return blog: “I’m honored to see that the list has been covered by such a high-profile blogger” with a link back to the winner’s blog. The link incest will continue for weeks until it has propelled the list maintainer himself into the top 100, at which point the list will be declared a sham and the blogosphere will erupt in outrage.
2. [Kevin Maney: USATODAY.com] Cellphone cameras will actually become useful. For most consumers, digital cameras on cellphones have turned out to pretty much be vestigial organs. You want a camera on the phone, but the photo quality is marginal. And then pictures end up stuck inside your phone like bugs in a Roach Motel. It's too hard to get them out if you want to print the photos or move them to a PC. So the cameras don't get used much. That will change in the coming year, says Bob Gove of Micron Technology, which makes the imaging chips in most camphones. Cellphone cameras are going to get good enough in 2006 to replace stand-alone digital cameras, Gove predicts. At the same time, companies such as Pictavision are popping up to make it easier to do more with camphone pictures, such as uploading them to the Internet and creating a slide show.
3. [DarkWinter] Google, having acquired Blogspot and Picasa to add to their already illustrious and comprehensive list of services, will finally conquer Wiki after a long and bitter fight involving poison mushrooms and the Association of Communist Wikians. Google will upgrade to God of the Internet and we will be powerless against it. Larry and Sergey will become filthy rich and spend the rest of their days acquiring more companies and living in shameless decadence.
And that's all for the 1st of January, 2006.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! *fireworks* Have a fantastic year ahead! =)
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