The Journey Continues

Where have you been? You don’t call, you don’t write! It’s been about a year since I last posted a worthwhile blog post here and today I felt like writing again. In fact I have been writing, writing a lot over the past year on my blog Soundtrack Geek. As for personal things, I haven’t felt like sharing for a very long time. There’s a lot of reasons for that, but I felt that I was sharing too much and it made me feel tired so I had to drop it cold, which I did. Now I feel more in control and don’t feel the pressure to write as much as I did a year ago.

Some of you might wonder what has happened to me in a year, but before I go into that I want to tell you what happened today. It was my last day of work at Shell, my final day, that’s it, finito, it’s all over. The last day, the final hours, it sounds so final and it is. I will probably never see my friends again as I am leaving the country on Tuesday, only to return one more time to catch a plane back to Norway. I am getting ahead of myself now, so let’s go back a few months.

August 8th 2008 was the happiest day of my life, it was the day I got married to my beautiful bride Keiya. It was a wonderful wedding held at hotel Grand Tropic in Jakarta, Indonesia. My family came down, yes, my dad, mom and little sister actually came to Indonesia to celebrate with me and they had a great time. It was the first time Kei and her family met my family, but it was an instant success. The perfect wedding! Oh before I forget, here are some pictures:

And we had some beautiful prewedding pictures taken in Bali:

Aaah, wonderful times. Unfortunately me and my wife has been separated for almost 4 months but on Tuesday I will go back to Indonesia to spend a month with her before I go to Norway on January 8th.

The thing is, she is Indonesian and I am Norwegian. The laws in our countries prohibits us from being together. It’s a shame but we have to be patient. It was not as we pictured because we wanted to live together when we got married, but in reality we are still in long distance relationship. I’m so excited though, because I get to see her soon again. Happy days!

After that I have to find a job and place to live in Norway so she can apply for a visa and come live with me, it is my biggest wish and I hope for sooner rather than later. This post didn’t turn out the way I originally thought. I had a whole other topic, but I just write what pops in my head.

So that’s what’s been happening I guess. Many exciting (and scary) months ahead. Bon voyage me!

Happy New Year!

Currently Listening Man on Fire La Nina see related

Goodbye childhood

It took me 30 years, but I finally get it now. When I was 5 years old and did something bad, I got punished accordingly by my parents. I was so jealous at them, they were so big, and they had such power over my life. All I wanted to be was a grown up so I could do whatever I want, eat all the candy in the world and just play all day long if I wanted to. My parents warned me about growing up, they said something about responsibility and that it wasn easy being a grown up. Like every kid, I just thought it was something they said but it turns out to be true.

The only puzzling thing is why it took me so long to realize it. In Norway you are officially a grown up when you are 18, but I guess I am just a bit slow. I have lived my life like I was 5 years old the last 12 years just doing what I like. Sure I got jobs, but as a 5 year old I realized that money didn actually grow on trees, so I figured it was a small price to pay for the freedom. Instead of playing with LEGO, I just started playing with computers instead. Instead of having a snowball fight, I have fought many battles in computer games and I did it alone. Alone is the keyword here, as long as there was only me to think about, I could do whatever I want. My 30 year old childhood has been really great and it hard to let go, but I know that it what best for me and for the people that depends on me.

All the responsibility has gradually been pushed upon me, and I think I am a grown up now, or a grown up wannabe. I didn ask for this responsibility but it a natural thing in anyone life at some point. I just a bit slow, that all. Can I still be a kid? I don think so, not anymore. Not if I want to have the things I want the most. I used to think that was the freedom of a kid, to do whatever I want when I want, but that just part of it all.

I have people who depend on me, people who value my decisions and respect me for what I do and who I am. As a human being, I respect that, I welcome that, in fact I am loving it. So goodbye little J, goodbye little man, it been fun! I will visit you from time to time, when it appropriate, and I hope you can do the same. It time to grow up?/span>

BTW! I am not leaving Xanga :D

Just being lazy

Aah it good to be lazy, isn it? Well I have been feeling very lazy lately, but at the same time I appear to be very busy. I tricked my mind into believing that at least, but reviewing the last couple of weeks I haven really done anything to write home about, literally. Well I suppose there always something. No one can do absolutely nothing for 2 weeks, not even yours truly.

I trying a few things, call it experiments if you will. It kind of like I am stuck again and I just try to make it move forward. Right now I am trying classical music to improve my concentration, read somewhere that it helps. Wel see if I can get through this blog first, and then go on from there. I think I am bored actually, there nothing to do.

The key to success is concentration. I think the people who can concentrate on something they have absolutely no interest in are amazing people. These are the people who really make it, and they have my admiration. It would be awesome to be able to go through a 2-hour lecture in wall plastering or something like that without even thinking about something else.

I think I want to learn something, and there are billions of things to learn. Concentration for me is linked to interest. If there is something interesting, concentration will be there, at least most of the time. I wonder if I can be interested in anything if I find the right angle. I delude myself with excuses that I don have enough time, but I know that I have plenty of time to do whatever I want.

Well, this was a weird blog on a Sunday, but there you go. I guess Il try to write something that makes sense soon.

Currently Listening Unbreakable By Backstreet Boys Inconsolable see related

Wow, I made $29,628,986.70 this week (so far)!

/Sarcasm on

On Tuesday I got the happy news from Mrs. Cherry Rings that I have won $22,278,090.85 in this year Lotto Awards. I had hardly any time to celebrate the good news as on Wednesday Mrs. Maria Newton informed me that in the UK 2007 Lottery I am the winner of $308,534.05 and 1 hour later Rose Woods, the online coordinator of the British Global Lottery congratulates me on winning $2,060,164.16. As I was planning my trip around the world with Kei on Thursday morning, a new email had arrived. Mrs. Susan Moore of the British Lottery was overly excited for giving me the amazing news that I have won $1,462,651.98. Funnily enough, I happened to win the exact same amount later that day according to Mrs. Jane Stewart of the UK National Lottery. I admit it, I used to be a big consumer of Coca-Cola but I never knew I would one day be rewarded for it. The Coca-Cola Company wrote me an email saying that I was one of 20 winners who can claim the grand prize of $   1,542,670.26 on Friday. They must be rolling in it at the offices of Coca-Cola when they can afford to give away so much money. Finally, today I got an email from Mr. Dominic Gerard who congratulated me of winning $514,223.42 in the Toyota Automobiles Lottery.

I wonder what Kei and me will do with all this money? How about buying an island or a small country?

/Sarcasm off

Seriously, why do people still fall for these scams? I mean they must be because the emails are still coming.