And he reminiscences the year

New Years Eve is one of those bittersweet nights. It is filled with anxiety, eagerness and general happiness of a new start. At the same time, it is filled with sadness, sorrow and dampness due to the passing of yet another precious year in our such short lives. It is the night that we truly realize the constant movement of time and find ourselves looking at our calenders wondering what happened to yesteryear.

See, the thing about time is that it is always moving. It's like a light wave/photon, always moving in one direction but never another. That area is passed, it will never pass again.

Many people feel that time moves too fast, to be honest I'm not really one of them. I feel like time moves at a good speed, it moves just right. We can accomplish so much in our lives at this speed, and it's a speed that motivates us to always do our best.

But It's still very scary that 2011 is already here and that is the thing about time. Because it moves in one direction, just the fact that it moves is very scary. Once a moment of time has gone by, once 11:33 December 31st 2010 is gone, it will never, ever repeat itself. That alone I think is what scares us so much, is why we feel time moves so fast. So it is, that the moment of 2010 is over.

and so it is, that, once again that same night (new years eve) has come and I believe it is a night of reminiscing our personal and species wide accomplishments for that year, that is what this blog post is about. Me writing a quick summarized record of 2010.



Well, 2010 had a great start. The first two months were jolly.

January of course is always nice, it's the end of the semester (first semester of grade 10,) so every thing has kind of relaxed out in a way OR everything has got really busy with preparations for exams (which at the beginning of this year is something I did not do) 24th January is my birthday (which happens to be in the middle of exams) [Which at this point I didn't really care about either] January was a happy month in general though. I had all of my friends, we were together in our own little circle. Also the opening of Burj_Khalifa is probably one of the more symbolic events of this month.

February started off great, I had my birthday party early on which was all good and fun. Later in February came the winter Olympics, which I followed pretty actively. Late February started growing darker as I realized a few of my friends and I were starting to drift away. Practiced for the CAP buyout.

March was the absolute low of this year for me. I lost 3 friends this month which is one of the most painful things anyone can go through. one of them being one of the closest friends I have ever known, the kind you hang out with every day and gone for reasons that I do not know. Obviously I messed up there some how, wish I knew how. Another being a friend I've always admired and loved but alas inevitably we drifted apart with a change in our lives. March was a hard month, one fights to get through it.

The sadness of March continued into April for me, where early April was hard but it got much better. Late in April we took a trip with my dad, stayed at Niagra falls over the weekend which was a very well needed rest and a great change :p At this point, I was having some fun in my courses. Guitar was great, History was lots of fun and interesting. English was English, civics and careers were civics and careers :P April was painful in many other ways though, and the biggest way being the BP Oil spill. I did also get my G1 drivers license this month :p

May, things started looking up. I started feeling closer to a friend who had begun to drift away, I learned to forget about the other two. On the other hand, I believe the protests in Thailand were during this month.

June, The end of the year is always an exciting thing, I still didn't worry much about exams, especially considering my easier semester. Guitar exam was fun to "study" for, I think it was the only one I really tried studying. I felt a bit closer day by day to certain friends and things looked up. Excited for summer is the general feeling from this month, every year. This years June, I think the biggest thing that I paid attention to was the FIFA world cup, soccer isn't normally a sport I enjoy. But I really got into it this year, cheered for Argentina! :)

July was huge, and tiny at the same time. On the 3rd of July, one of my biggest dreams came true. I saw Iron Maiden live at Molson. Huge. Also started this blog that same night. July 8th I received my new guitar <3. July 18th I watched Rush live in concert with my brother which once again was massive. July 29th was the night I saw Megadeth, Slayer and Testament live, again with my brother. So why was July also tiny? Because I suffered in summer camp volunteering through out the month :P

Throughout August, I was generally very excited for the release of Iron Maidens new album "The Final Frontier," which came, I heard and loved. At the same time, I was saddened and generally scared due to the floods in my native land, Pakistan.

September as usual was all about getting back to school, meeting up with friends again and getting back into the usual school routine.

In October, I took the oath for Canadian Citizenship. October was also the month that the many Chilean miners were rescued, a symbolization of human survival and effort :P

November is a lot more recent, a generally happy month. I performed for the first time at Java Jive and Pie and I feel like I'm growing closer to to a lot of my friends. Important things from this month, I think were the G20/ G8 here in Toronto and Wikileaks which is monumental for the world.

December continues the happiness from November, the year has come to a nice little conclusion for me. I can't really remember anything huge happening this month apart from in the lives of a few friends, but on the planet I think it was a quieter month =p


Well, there is my badly worded, quick summarization that misses out on every thing. It fails to capture the beauty of the moment as it should, but at least it's a small record of what this year has been like.

First song of the new year: Different World - Iron Maiden
fitting I think