Lithiumstate

Man, i’m seriously considering my own mortality with how quick the years pass me by.
I was stunned at 2008’s new year’s eve how quick things had gone by, but 2009 seemed like a blur; not a year !
At the very least alot of fun stuff have been done, gone to alot of parties with my Kool Kids brethern, met up lots of interesting people that travel to and from Amsterdam, and been to Japan again so at least 2008’s new year’s resolution of “Go to Japan at least once a year” has come true haha ! Offcourse with good times there comes bad times; 2009 was a bumpy road, having switched jobs three times !  Don’t look at me like that ! I wasn’t my fault; there’s some strange politics that go down when the world (thinks) that it’s in a financial crisis so layoff after layoff’ untill I finally settled down at the ING.

As usual, there’s the new year’s resolutions for this year too ! I’m cheating, cause I’m picking something that i’ll be doing anyway and that’s further improve my mastery over the Japanese language, and since I’ve been toying with the idea of living in Tokyo for a short-term period (i’d never permanantly live in Japan; long story why) it’s become even more important than being to ask for things when on a vacation. A requirement to gain a long-term visa (i.e not the vacation 90 day one) is to be proviciant in Japanese up to a certain level. For this they’ve invented the “Japanese Language Proviciancy Test” or JLPT for short; which is a world-wide standard to gauge one’s mastery over Japanese.
So my goal is to achieve levels 4 (basic) and 3 (intermediate)

Well, here’s hoping that 2010 will be a less bumpier road than 2009 was, and filled with many more wonderfull people and experiences !