16.12.09

The past decade

This is the traditional questionnaire, that I have filled out at the end of each year. This time, it's about the past decade.

1.What did you do in this decade that you'd never done before?
-Many things, went to university, lived alone, lived with a boyfriend, lived alone...

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next decade?
-I never make any.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
-Lala, twice, and several cousins also procreated.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
-My maternal grandmother.

5. What countries did you visit?
-Estonia, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, UK, France, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Japan, India, Australia, China, USA and Mexico. I think that's all. Oh yeah, and Prague airport in Czech Republic, plus I drove a bus through Slovenia, and slept through the whole ride. Do they count?

6. What would you like to have in 2010s that you lacked in 2000s?
-A career.

7. What date from 2000s will remain etched upon your memory?
-Well, maybe 8.10.2005, when I met Mika.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the decade?
-Getting into university twice.

9. What was your biggest failure?
-Not graduating from the said uni.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
-Yes. The most serious ones, ie. those that needed hospital care, were appendicitis and kampylo bachteria.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
-There are so many things to choose from, but I'll say my trip to Madrid in 2003. It was the first time I travelled alone, I had a blast, and I think it encouraged me to travel more.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
-Dad has been an enormous support through the whole decade.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
-There were few people.

14. Where did most of your money go?
-If you don't count the essentials (food and living), then definitely travelling!

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
-University life, travelling, football, cycling, skiing.

16. What song will always remind you of 2000s?
-Ikuisen teekkarin laulu.

17. Compared to this time last decade, are you
i. happier or sadder?
-Close call. I am more at ease with myself, but on the other hand, life was more carefree when I was 15. I say happier, just because I'm happy that I am not 15 anymore.

ii. thinner or fatter?
-Fatter.

iii. richer or poorer?
-I have more money, but now I have to pay for everything myself, whereas 10 years ago dad payed for everything, since I had no income.

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
-Studied.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
-Stressed.

20. Did you fall in love in 2000s?
-At least once.

21. How many one night stands?
-A few.

22. What was your favourite TV programme?
-ER and The Simpsons.

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last decade?
-No, I didn't know that person then.

24. What was the best book you read?
-Wallander series by Henning Mankell, Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes, Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, and many more.

25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
-Did I discover Ultra Bra this decade? How about Robbie Williams?

26. What did you want and get?
-A wonderful boyfriend.

27. What did you want and not get?
-A year as an exchange student.

29. What was your favourite film of this decade?
-Lost in Translation.

30. What one thing would have made your decade immeasurably more satisfying?
-Well, the correct answer to this is kinda personal.

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2000s?
-Ever changing evolution, mostly jeans and a t-shirt.

32. What kept you sane?
-Travelling.

33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
-Scarlett Johansson!

34. What political issue stirred you the most?
-WTC.

35. Who did you miss?
-Many, many, many people.

36. Who was the best new person you met?
-I met most of my friends in this decade, but the answer to this is really easy. Mika, of course.

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2000s.
-One does not have to be model-thin in order to be liked and loved.

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Anonymous Sonja kirjoitti...

Tää on aina mielenkiintoinen ja kiva postaus! :)

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