Saturday, December 30, 2006

2006 - The good, the bad and the ugly

I've done more than 2006 things this year. I've attempted things that I thought I'd never do and I've learned so much more about life, people and most important... myself.

Highlights outweigh the low points and a lot of it has to do with my new theory on life. Cut out the "energy vampires". Gosh, life is short and life is hard, and the last thing one needs in your life is someone who brings you down and make you feel much worse about who you are. I can seriously suggest this to all of you. Make a list of all your friends. Tick the names of the people that make you happy, people that always smile and care. And then seriously consider those who only phone you with problems or to tell you exactly how bad life is.

My year started by going to the Phillipines. What an amazing country, people and adventure. Part is this was because I spent it with two of my favorite people in the world. We met such amazing people and even had pictures with Tarsiers, the smallest monkey like creatures I've ever seen.


One of my most amazing highlights was my trip to the fabulous New Zealand - The land of the long white cloud. I pushed myself to the limits by doing so many things for the first time. Like Zorbing, white water rafting and my first skydive. I'll never forget that 13000 ft plunge! Bring it on any day!! I loved the people there and I want to go back there again. I also made amazing friends and I had the honor to learn about each one of them.







I also started my own business with a friend of mine in Taiwan. Pie*Say T-shirts hit the island with a storm and the ones who have them... love them. I found that so many places have nice souvenir shirts. Taiwan didn't... and if you see a need, fill it. That sounds like something Donald Trump would say. Haha. Here I'm in the McD's with my shirt. Check the girl taking a picture behind me. She thinks that I don't know what the shirt means. It reads in Chinese: "Although I'm smart, I'm still too stupid to read my own shirt!" Check out our other shirts at http://www.piesay.com


Well, after a long thought process, I decided on 2 movies which were my favorites this year. The first is the final installment of X-Men. Loved it. "Go out with a bang", I always say.. and that's just what they did. It was worth the wait.

Another movie which was totally differerent was OPEN SEASON. Of all the computer animated movies I saw this year (and I basically saw them all), I liked this one most. I haven't enjoyed a movie like this in a very long time.
















My favorite song was and still is NO PROMISES from SHAYNE WARD. Wow. This song just stirrs me in all the right places! Go Shayne! Keep up the good work...

Click on the picture to view it on on YOUTUBE. It's just out of this world.

posted by Marion @ 6:44 PM Comments: 0