Many people review the year and tend to place the most recent memories as the 'highlights' of that period. Who can blame them? January and February seems a lifetime ago, so here is my low down of the year that has went by.
The Good
- The Friends that have been visiting me throughout the year in
- The Bike that has helped me feel much healthier than I've ever felt over the past 10 years.
- The Teaching course which I did that has given me hope that I will be able to complete my professional marketing papers with similar conviction
- The relatives visiting, again is similar to the visiting friends, only that its a time to heal old wounds and make new pathways into the evergrowing relationships.
- The Trips back to
The Bad
- The Women, haven’t found what I’m looking for = BAD
- The comebacks: This is the year that brought back a lot of memories, simply because there has been the production of that Transformers movie. Not only that though, as it can also be remembered as the year that trilogies (I hate these = UGLY) ruled the cinemas. Musically, it can be coined the comeback year with so many groups coming back for 'one final encore'. At times the musicians on stage probably looked more like ancient relics being displayed in a museum. Why oh why do they allow themselves to be humilated in such a way? In this age, 'milking the consumers' seems to have taken a totally different approach with most producers identifying most 30 year olds as sentimental geeks, thus selling them items from their past = money.
While we’re speaking of comebacks, what about those two grandfathers that opened Planet Hollywood years ago. Coming back as the characters that brought them fame, please welcome Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis. Admittedly they did do quite well in the box office. They also seem to be doing pretty well in the boxed dvd's section, raking up good sales this Christmas.
- Facebook vs. Friendster vs. Multiply
Will also be remembered as the year when Facebook conquered all in networking sites. Anybody share the same sentiments as me: getting really boring with registering for newer sites just on the pretense on keeping in touch?
With me locking multiply from the world, the only problem is that unless people actually use multiply, who would know about my stories from a far? The dilemmas in life...
The Ugly
- The alcohol. Ok, I know this has a small place in the good, but 2007 has reminded me of one thing: don't mix Guinness with white wine.
- The trilogies, it just doesn’t work lor for me…
- The Marketers of the world: In a way it does make sense, but then again, its the commercialisation of our childhoods that make the idea sickening (or is it just me?). Picture this: meeting your well respected Form One teacher getting drunk and sweary in the pub down the road. It totally dismisses the myth of teachers being total angels. In the same vein seeing our childhood heroes being manipulated in such a way to make a quick buck from the consumers just takes the glitter off the whole idea. In a way it puts me off all of it. Then again, which item isn't part of the commercial world? Unless we all dress in leaves. Or all ride early 40s bicycles. But those are also on the list of highly priced items nowadays!
It seems that marketers seem to have really run out of ideas with talks of reproducing other reproduced movies. Case in mind - Batman. I do like Heath Ledger's new look as the lunatic Joker, BUT I just feel its a bit too much. Doesn't anyone remember how much a joker old Clooney became when he was the Batman?
First done in 1966, then rehashed with the Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 1989 to the Dark Knight with Christian Bale and Heath Ledger. Now we're seeing the Joker re-born again! (Though he's kinda hot though...)
What will 2008 have install? I don't know, I seem to have contracted Arsene Wenger's disease of myopia... But I sure do hope its one hell of a good year!
