Bring it on!

I know I have a tendency to complain about most things I encounter in my life, so this should be refreshing change: the year 2005 was actually not too bad!

It didn’t really seem to have such a hot start, though. In the first hours of 2005 I was alone in my flat in Jakarta, drinking the Christmas leftovers of some truly awful cheapo vodka.

From then on, however, things got much better. I spent a couple of months travelling in Southeast Asia, without even catching malaria. Hurray!

After I returned home from my holidays I had a letter waiting for me. It was a “thanks-but-no-thanks” reply to a job application I had posted before my travels. Well, alright then, I’ll find something else, I thought. But then the phone rang and the same people who had sent the rejection were now asking if I was interested in working for them, something else had come up that would suit me, they said. So, here I am now, quite enjoying the job I didn’t really even apply for.

Not so much changed in my personal life last year. I still keep on living in sin with my lovely girlfriend, which is nice.

I still judge people for little faults that I’m totally happy to allow for myself. But that just humane isn’t it. And if not at least it’s good fun. And if there is one thing we should do this year is bring back the fun in fundamentalism!

So, a good year it was. Not all sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll, but enough of each to keep me going. Now I’m ready for the new year, so bring it on! If it’s as good as the last I have no fear.