Well, it’s new year already, isn’t it? I expected to compose this post sooner, but didn’t have a chance to. However, it is not too late. Am I right? First and foremost, I wish you all a happy new year. I hope 2010 will be the year of your luck, success, and happiness.

I noticed that everybody was summarizing their life in 2009. I was going to write a big summary about everything in the year, but at the end, I changed my mind and decided to focus on something new, instead of the old-boring 2009.

However, 2009 is still a memorable year. It’s not secret that I’m not good at memorizing so I can’t remember exactly where and when the activity done. And this is the list of things that rocked and things that sucked, in no particular order.

Things that rocked

1. I’m 20 and had a great birthday, ever. Thanks to my love, who encouraged and supported me a lot.
2. Still in relationship with my girl. We expected to break apart within the year, but It didn’t happen.
3. Joined Tumblr and had a mini meet-up with those guys. The good is I had a lot of friends there, and they are all talented guys. The bad is I got distracted and didn’t do my work well.
4. I had some remarkable events in se7enclan. We had great time in a trip to Vinh and a number of parties. Se7enclan is, somehow, my another family with all of my homies. Keep it up, I love you guys.
5. Launched FMoN, a tiny tool to check if someone were following you in the famous social network: Twitter. Thanks Mr Ban, Nguyen Duc for encouraging me, right after the launch. Thanks Kien 44, Quang Anh Do, Diego and all the guys in Tumblr for commenting and suggesting me. It’s so sad that I didn’t update anything since then, so at the moment, FMoN still in beta with a tiny function. That sucks! But don’t worry, it will be updated soon. I promise.
6. Released Nhim Vol.3: My Autumn – the compilation album for my birthday. I remixed most of the songs in the album, and it surprised me that those tracks are not too bad at all. Thanks you all for supporting me. Luv ya. Oh, and for you guys who curious which my favorite tracks are. They are #1 (Memories of My Last Autumn) and #8 (Last Birthday).
7. Joined two course in my work place. Thank God the course was so damn interesting that gave me a lot of designing experiment. I’m really confident now.
8. Decided to pause working and focus on studying. Actually, I DID NOT manage time good enough. I had been in a bad condition and extremely stressful for a long time. I think I’m still owe my boss, Mr Tien Do Xuan, a “sorry”. However, in that terrible condition, I made a good move. I bought a lot of books, from designing guide to programming guide; from time management to project portfolio management… It’s great that I read books everyday. For your recommendation, I would like to pick “The Smashing Book” (by Smashing Magazine), “iPhone SDK Develoment” (by Dudney and Adamson), “Manage Your Project Portfolio”  (by Rothman)
9. Switch to Greeny theme, a wordpress theme for my blog. I love minimal design, and I do love green. This is my most favorite theme, ever. In order to complete this theme, I had to work with Last.FM API and Tumblr API. It was so fun.
10. Received a lot of cards and presents from my girl. I was still so happy, almost all the year. Because of your cards. Thank you so so much. I love you.

Things that sucked

1. Smoked again. That really sucks. I can feel my health is so bad, at the moment. I will giving up smoking, in this year. I promise.
2. My laptop died unexpectedly, got fixed and finally, died again. So, I advise you not to buy Dell laptop, no matter what kind of laptop.
3. I didn’t have a good result, at university. Studying must be focused more and more, I think.
4. Got a lot of troubles with my family. Seems that they never know me, never.
5. Didn’t have even a date with Linh and Huyen, my two best friends. Time is always my enemy. I just want to say “sorry” and promise a date, in 2010. You know, I love you two, so so much.
6. Didn’t finished anything, actually. All of my idea is still idea, no less no more.

I don’t want to think 2009 as a terrible year, so the list would be end here. Hopefully everything will be fine, in the new year, 2010.