New Year, New Challenges

Happy 2 0 0 0 & 9!

I spent my NYE very low key at home, with family, and watched the Eiffel Tower sparkle from my living room right to the moment of countdown with just a few thoughts and sighs I let out the window for what's to come in this coming year.

This New Year is indeed very different from others, because this is the first time I really know what I'm going to be going through the whole year. I'm physically ready, with just a few mental preparation due, but I'll get that equipped very soon.

If anything this year signals change, a change of attitude, change of lifestyle, change of people, change from freedom, change of scenery, change of all changes. Another change in my life, but what can I say, it all looks too familiar to me. How am I going to do it? Just rely on 25 years of experience, I'll be just fine.

I apologize to most of you for being so vague, but I'll let y'all know in time. There's only a very select few that know what I mean. Anyways, it's refreshing to see changes around me as well, when the light of the Eiffel Tower changed for the new beginning. The stars around it representing the Euro Union is gone as well. I know I mention the E.T. so much but it's the closest thing to home, and it just fascinates me, just my way of expressing my appreciation of my time here...So here are some pics:



2008 & 2009

Btw, I'll be in Korea January 8th, so holla at me!

New Horizons

A change of scenery doesn't necessarily just bring you to a new environment, people or a new culture to bode with. But a change of place brings you a change of pace, from your daily routine and from your comfort zone. And those changes combined bring you to new discoveries within yourself. The things you were never used to doing, the roads you never crossed, you realize, can actually bring light to the world you haven't seen yet.

Since the day that I was born up until this point, I can count with the fingers of one hand how many books I've read. I never liked to read, I thought it was boring and I was living in the high-tech generation preferring to see the visuals. And here I find myself today already finishing two books within a month and already that's all of what I've read up to this point. I realized how much depth reading brings and not only does it teach but it inspires. It can provide you with so much knowledge and understanding as well as motivation. And all of a sudden you find yourself having answers to the questions you had for yourself as well.


'A Year In The Merde' By Stephen Clarke
Stephen Clarke is a man from England who comes to Paris for work and discusses his work experience, cultural differences and many of his romances. I definitely could relate to his experiences adjusting to a new city in Paris.


'Become a Better You' By Joel Osteen
A book on better ways to live your life, not only through just motivation but positive outlooks and optimism. It definitely helped me crawl out of a very negative stage and I've been a positive man ever since...