2006 - One Year, 12 Months

By DivineOmega | January 12, 2007

What the hell happened in 2006 then?

The Real World: New Horizons, the world’s first probe to Pluto, is launched.
My World: The beginning of year approached, and with that I returned to University, still in the university’s provided accommodation. Seems so long ago now. I went out a few times… mildly drunk - no photos.

The Real World: The 1 billionth song is purchased from the Apple iTunes Store.
My World: My Birthday - got very, very drunk and taught myself all about fire alarms! Who need fire alarms, eh? They only protect your life. The best thing to do, as I discovered this month, is to go out and get hammered the day before your accommodation’s fire alarm goes off. This ensure you are in a deep sleep and thus do not hear it. Luckily, it did not melt in the fire, thus proving many common beliefs that I am in fact a Mage.

The Real World: A revolutionary scramjet jet engine, Hyshot III, designed to fly at 7 times the speed of sound, is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia.
My World: I heard a low pitched whirring noise this month… it was the slowly approached sound of that evil creature ‘the deadline’. I heard it… and frantically started working as well as possible! Ha, no. The mad rush of assignment hand-ins commenced as we all gathered into one another’s rooms swearing blind at infinite loops, segmentation faults and the “ARGH LAG”GY Unix server… *sigh*

The Real World: The ‘War on Terror’ continue… Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometres north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants (the worst 1-day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War).
My World: Woo! Assignments all done. Holiday time.. w00t! I went back home this month, and a few friends and I met up. We relived the old times, the school teachers who we still want to kill (in new and fabulous ways) and also examined a dog which was sitting on the top of the pub we went to. How did it get up there you ask? Well, we pondered the same question. Eventually, in our infinite wisdom we concluded the only logical explanation is the the dog in question had his very own spider man spider sense. Amen!

The Real World: The first demonstration for homosexual rights in Moscow is broken up by the police.
My World: Oh crap… exams. Semester 2 exams. They went well overall, and guess what - I passed all! Note: you may all bow to me later at my convenience. Also, this was the end of my first educational year, thus I was kicked out of university accommodation, but I’ll still have the memories (see right image). Then… went home!

The Real World: Women vote for the first time in elections for the National Assembly of Kuwait.
My World: I was lazy, I do so little. It made the world so peaceful… Iain however… he locked himself up in our new rented house in Stafford and went ~~slowly~~ more insane by himself. Although, the ~~bastard~~ great friend had an 8mb Internet connection to himself, through which I comforted the poor soul via MSN.

The Real World: The world’s longest running music show, Top of the Pops, broadcasts for the last time on BBC Two, after 42 years.
My World: At home, being funky.

The Real World: The International Astronomical Union defines ‘planet’ at its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of ‘dwarf planet’ more than 70 years after its discovery.
My World: At home, being jazzy.

The Real World: Walt Disney Pictures’ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest becomes the third and fastest film in Hollywood history to reach the billion dollar worldwide box office mark with $1,004,100,000.
My World: I returned to university and moved into the new house! This is like RL dudes and dudettes. Plus… why is dudettes not a correctly spelt word? Firefox is a sexist pig towards women. First month, new house (RENT OMG) and so this was odd.

The Real World: Microsoft publicly releases Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Google buys YouTube for USD $1.65 billion.
My World: Settled back into university, yes. In the new house, yes. Started work, yes

The Real World: The ‘Science’ Journal predicts 90% of maritime life forms will be extinct by 2048.
My World: Mid-semester one of year. That evil sound is back. The deadlines are approached… erk.

The Real World: Saddam Hussein, former Iraq president, is executed in Baghdad.
My World: Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Christmas. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Java. Oh, yes… revision. revision. revision.

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