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Joined: 27 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:52 am Post subject: a year in review |
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| As the year comes to a close, what have been/were/are your best moments and worse moments of 2003? Both personal and job wise is ok as this is a general forum!!! I am still working on deciding what mine are/have been/were... |
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denise
Joined: 23 Apr 2003
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Location: finally home-ish
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 11:38 am Post subject: |
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Job-related
Best: finishing my MA.
Worst: realizing that I now have the rest of my life ahead of me, with no major plans for it.
Personal
Worst: ending a relationship that I would rather not have ended.
Best: realizing that my ex and I can still be, and still are, great friends, and that he wasn't "right" for me anyway.
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struelle
Joined: 16 May 2003
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Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:38 pm Post subject: Re: a year in review |
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| As the year comes to a close, what have been/were/are your best moments and worse moments of 2003? Both personal and job wise is ok as this is a general forum!!! |
In retrospect, this was a very tough year for me, the most difficult ever. I'm glad it is nearing a close. Not all moments were bad, but this year pushed me to the limit. It was a tough one, but at least it wasn't boring 
To briefly recap, in general world events there was the Iraq War, SARS, and finally Saddam's capture.
Job wise, I ran into a few snags at my previous place of work before summer. SARS really thew a wrench into the business, and office politics went out of control. On the positive I applied for my CELTA in Bangkok and had a great time. Although stressful, the course was a major career booster. Then I got a new job at a key school in outer Shanghai, which has more than its share of snags as well as successes.
On the personal front, my Shanghainese girlfriend left me to study in Thailand this Sept as her Mom forced her to. I initially did my CELTA in July, but had to postpone it because my grandfather died of a heart attack. So I flew back home to Vancouver on a last-minute plane ticket and went to his funeral with family. Before that, I lost all my savings while biking around China and borrowed money from friends to get me through summer.
Thankfully, the CELTA trainers let me continue the course in August with no extra charge. So I flew back to BKK and did that. A few visa troubles cut my Thai vacation on the beach short. Only two days  Once back in China I then lost my cell phone and someone stole my bike.
Looking back at all these events, I can't help but laugh. A fair amount of bad luck to say the least. But life goes on, and I have no doubt that 2004 will be much better.
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nomadder
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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Location: Somewherebetweenhereandthere
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| 2003 was not a good year. Plans to go abroad or even across country kept failing. A very quiet year but a chance to reflect and plan(once again) for the future. 2004 here's looking at ya. |
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Dr.J
Joined: 09 May 2003
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Location: usually Japan
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| A fairly quiet year, but that's what I was looking for, even though I didn't realise it. Much of the time was spent wondering what I should do for the rest of the year, which ended up taking more time than actually doing anything, but then, the wondering was enjoyable in an artistic self-pity kind of way so I suppose it wasn't a total loss. And it works out in the end. |
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FGT
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
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Location: Turkey
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| Denise - isn't there a contradiction? (quote - roughly) "I didn't want the relationship to end/ we are friends/ he's not right for me". I perceive (perhaps wrongly) that you hope to get back together with him. |
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fat_chris
Joined: 10 Sep 2003
Posts: 3198
Location: Beijing
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:03 am Post subject: |
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| 2003 was s**t. I'm looking for a better year in 2004. The astrologer says it should be for me (I'm a Cancer). We'll see. I read the horoscopes for a joke but I think it is all tongue-in-cheek. |
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fat_chris
Joined: 10 Sep 2003
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Location: Beijing
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:05 am Post subject: |
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No more pyramid schemes and sniffing glue in 2004! 
More antagonizing scot47 and meticulous planning for the future in 2004!  |
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Gordon
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Japan
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| It was an up and down year for me. I got settled into Japan and started to learn the language, but not as successfully as I would have hoped. I love my job. We moved into a beautiful big house last month. Some good friends moved close to us, but now they are leaving the country. One personal tragedy, but I am trusting that it will come to some good and it has drawn my family closer together. I believe there will be more changes next year. I hope to start a Masters if I can find the right program. I may go to the Philippines for a month this spring. |
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Wolf
Joined: 10 May 2003
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Location: Middle Earth
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:59 am Post subject: |
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Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag today
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,
As he, defeated, dying
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear.
"Success Is Counted Sweetest," by Emily Dickinson. |
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yaramaz
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
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Location: Not where I was before
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 6:31 am Post subject: |
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This has been a very difficult year, full of extremes of emotion and very little stability. I don't regret it though, as I've learned a lot and feel somehow stronger for having gone through all the stress and trials that I did. Perhaps it was the vulnerability of placing myself in an isolated community where the slightest quarrel with friends or the mildest tribulation at work caused reverberations far greater than they would have in a less vulnerable situation.
However, it couldnt have been so bad as I'm still here.... and it is still gleefully unstable  |
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donfan
Joined: 31 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 6:50 am Post subject: |
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best: finishing my Masters
can't really think of a worst moment |
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Mark-O
Joined: 25 Jun 2003
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Location: 6000 miles from where I should be
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Best: Going to Hong Kong and reaffirming my choice to want to work there in the future as a NET
Worst: Finding out that my friends (one in particular) there are manic depressive alcoholics who are intent on dragging me down with them when I get there! |
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denise
Joined: 23 Apr 2003
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Location: finally home-ish
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| FGT wrote: |
| Denise - isn't there a contradiction? (quote - roughly) "I didn't want the relationship to end/ we are friends/ he's not right for me". I perceive (perhaps wrongly) that you hope to get back together with him. |
I don't think so. Time for something new. He's found a new love (yeah, sure, I'm happy for him...  ) and I've got some strange goings-on of my own.
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Shonai Ben
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 10:37 am Post subject: |
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| Bad year. |
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