Happy Birthday to me

filed in Ramblings on Oct.16, 2008

Another year has passed, 23 years in total. Out of all the years of my lifetime, I feel that this past year has probably been the most eventful and interesting of the lot. Just to list a couple of things that happened in the past year in no particular order.

Dancing on my birthday

1. I started dancing, salsa to be exact, and moved on to Bachata(my current favourite), Zouk, Mambo(just started, on2 Salsa). Dancing has probably been one of the biggest changes to my life from the usual sitting at the computer all day long play games, which gives me a relatively social activity that costs almost nothing and the sense of progress I have gone through the past year has been phenomenal. If you asked me 2 years ago whether I would be dancing Salsa, I probably would have laughed at you.

Graduation =)

2. Graduating from uni! After 4 1/2 years of studying, doing a Bachelor of Information Technology/Bachelor of Creative Industries(Communication Design), I finally graduated. This was probably one of the biggest things I looked forward to ALL my life, to graduate and get into the working force and its not the usual, “I hate my job“, quite the contrary because i LOVE my job.

3. Starting to work Full Time! I enjoy it alot =) Its not always sunshine and rainbows of course but I am blessed to be working in such an awesome environment. Forever thankful, especially to Tim who referred me =)

2008 Sydney Salsa Congress - 5 times world champions, Oliver and Luda

4. Buying my first Digital SLR! This is probably one of my biggest purchases and followed by my first gig at the 2008 Sydney Salsa Congress shooting alongside Justin Cogley

2008 LDA Ball - Ben and Bronwen

5. My second big shooting gig, at the 2008 LDA Ball.

Armed Combat Team searching for props

6. Making a game alongside Jenn, Tim and Reilly, Armed Combat. Its a really awesome game that we created for our final studio subject thats makes use of tangible media, in our case, hands and feet to control a tank battling it out against other players. It was such a hit that not only did we put it on display at the 2007 Communication Design Graduation show we were asked to put it up for display again for the Body+ 2008 Shape of Things to Come show.

7. To tell you the truth, it isnt what I did or achieved that made the past year so special, it was just an icing to the cake which are the people in my life! especially my family and friends, whether they were re-kindled or newly developed relationships, that is what really made my year what it was.

23rd Birthday, missing Pat

Just to finish are some pics from my mini-birthday party at home, the big party is at the end of the month! Its nice to have a relatively quiet time at home since Im out and about every other day of the year =)