My Shadows - Your Borderline

What if I started walking in a random direction...
.........................................................and kept on walking?
.......................................................................and then walked further?
..................................................................................never stopping to look back?
.......................................................................................................................just walking away...?


Break the chains. Break the pattern. Live YOUR life, not the life that others have made for you.

Most Memorable Moment: During the Summer holidays in Spain, when suddenly we all (Sony, Luke, Steven and I) started singing All Star by Smashmouth along with the music in Tivoli World amusement park...

Funniest Moment: Mr. Brush and Mr. Scrubbs, lol! Thomas and I had to do a presntation in English about our future goals and ambitions in life. Everyone else's was drop-dead boring - no way were we gonna be boring. So we came in wearing suit jackets and top-hats and presented ourselves as Mr. Ned Brush (me) and Mr. Elie Scrubbs (Thomas), toilet cleaners extraordinaire with our plan to set up a world-wide toilet cleaning company, "Brush, Scrubbs and Co." xD We just made it up as we went along, but boy it was damn good! We had the whole class in stitches of laughter.. Just wish someone had filmed it!

Greatest Achievment: Tough one.. So many achievements to choose from *cough* *cough*... The running of the disco perhaps, or the Battle Of The Bands 2006 DVD, or keeping the Eccentric alive, or possibly passing the year after failing in six different subjects at Christmas time. Coming back from that was possibly the hardest thing I've ever done, so I guess that might be my achievment this year. Also I've become less of a clam, I talk more with people and worry less - now as a result I have more friends and some really great one too, so that's also a great achievment. :D

Newest Favourite Colour: Dark Purple!

Newest Favourite Song: Auf Achse, by Franz Ferdinand

Favourite Music Artists Discovered (and downloaded =P) This Year: Smashmouth, The Verve, Motion City Soundtrack, Rockapella, The Kooks, Five For Fighting, Angels And Airwaves, Snow Patrol, Blur, Muse, The Fray...that's most of 'em!

Number Of Times I Fell In Love: Once.

Number Of Times I Fell Out Of Love: None.

Best Friends Of The Year: The same two great guys who I've known since nearly forever and been best friends with ever since 1st Year Secondary; James And Thomas! Here's to more great times ahead guys! Ah...before us lies a whole New Year, unspoilt and beautiful - lets get out there and make it worth living through! Only time will tell the plots, the schemes and fantastic times we'll have this time round!

New Friends: Many, many, many! But Vans, Nella, Johanna, Luca, Henrik, Daniel, August and Filip are some of the greatest and best friends I've ever made so far :) You're all great people, really you are.
Also old friendships down in Spain were reinforced, made stronger than ever and new ones were even made; Sony, Luke, Steven, Haidi, Chantelle - see you all hopefully next August!

Happiest Moment: None spring to mind. Not that there weren't any, just none stand out in particular...but yeah, there were plenty: holidays, friends, parties, shows, jokes, faces...all sorts! :)

Saddest Moment: When I was told it wouldn't work out, but that the rose was really beautiful and of course we would still be great friends... :(

Most Amazing Moment: Skiing off-piste at La Clusaz with the ski group - unbelievable views, wildlife and of course the skiing was ust fantastic! Absolutely fabulous! Going again this year :D

Deadliest Moment: When James and I met up at the..the..the uh..amusement park whose name I can never pronounce that comes to Luxembourg each year and we just went on EVERYTHING - with style and simply classy noises! (just don't ask =P)

Scariest Moment: When I knew something was wrong with Vans one Saturday morning and spent nearly the whole day trying to work out what it was, phoning people, talking on msn and then finally finding out... Maybe the scariest thing ever for me believe it or not. Scary rides, heights, school, threats, guns - they don't RLLY scare me. But people can and do.

Most Dangerous Moment: The Summer Compos! Aaargh! The damn pressure, if I failed those I would have failed the whole year, no questions asked! But no problemo, Paul saunters in chilled as an ice-cube and get excellent marks in ALL of them. Hah! Now somehow I'd better do that again this year...


Favourite Moment: Seeing a certain smile for the first time on the bus to the conservatoire de musique (may that building burn, or explode, or fall apart, or hopefully all three :) ) and not being able to resist smiling back at it :D

Most Frustrating And Infuriating Moment: The ice-rink closing for a year. The training seesions being moved to different times so I could no longer skate... To fly above the ice again, to practice my axels and flips once more - that's gonna happen this year, I'll make sure of it!

What Made It All Worthwhile: One word for you: FRIENDS.

This New Year's Soundtrack: New Year's Day - U2


***EDIT: Almost forgot to mention that one of the most fun things this year was the Merite Jeunesse trips! Both were excellent, the second was the best ever! I won't go into details for two reasons: one I don't want to mention certain people or activites in case this falls into the wrong eyes, and two there was so much fun packed into that small space of time that it's impossible to describe in a few short sentances! Something that's certainly worth repeating again next year =P

Continuing the Irish theme, the music theme, the video theme and introducing a Christmas theme...

Here's the song I have stuck in my head this Xmas: Fairytale Of New York, sung by Christy Moore.

And btw everybody: HAPPY XMAS!

As most people probably already know, my favourite group is U2. Their songs to me are timeless, nearly always filled with passion and heart and they have written at least one song for every one of my moods, they always manage to strike a note deep in my soul...On top of all this most of their songs just have great beats and melodies and they can vary in style a lot, but whatever style they attempt, U2 just seem to keep making great music. Even now, probably no longer at their best, their new songs are still to me fantastic. Vertigo and Window In The Skies are testimony enough of that.

One of my all time favourite songs is Sunday Bloody Sunday. A political song (like several of their songs) it talks about the troubles of Northern Ireland..and Northern Ireland has seen so many bloody Sundays, not just one bad day... Anyway, back to the point I have been trying to reach: I really love this version of the song, live from U2's Rattle And Hum tour and while not the original version which is probably a better one just to listen to, this video is just filled with soul, fire and passion - the main reason for my love of U2.

I've yet to find a country more beautiful than Ireland in terms of it's landscape...
Just love this video, so I'm gonna show it to everyone lol xD

Unfortunately reland is just like any other country in Europe in that there are more and more buildings springing up everywhere... This video doesn't show the huge cities, or the housing estates that have taken over a lot of Ireland - but nonetheless the beauty is still there and even less than 5 minutes out from the cities you can find it... And some of the cities are damn cool places also, I'll have to find some videos of them later!

Sumtimes the thoughts in your head are there for a reason - they're there for you alone to hear. They're there to stay and to be locked up, not thrown out into the face of the world.

Sumtimes...


The end of an era? Perhaps this is my last blog entry. So long.
My thoughts have been ordered, the clutter in my head uncluttered..this blog has served it's purpose.

Don't go with the norm! Be different, break the routine and stand out in a crowd!
Be an original individual! Be yourself and never be someone else! But be different for the right reasons...

I have this huge aim, ambition and dream in life and it's to MAKE a difference! A real difference, not just small differences. To travel around the world, changing everything that's wrong with it as I go... I'll never manage it, but that won't stop me trying! Cos there's always a chance and anyway, for the hell of the whole thing, it'll be far more fun than working in some damn grey box office in some bank, lol xD I'll do SOMETHING! And you can bet your life it won't be ordinary or normal either. To make a DIFFERENCE you have to BE DIFFERENT.

Break the routine. Be SOMEONE worth remembering. If we were all born to be remembered life would be shit and you would have no reason to try. But there is no reason for ANYONE to remember us, so we have a reason to try and be worthy of this life. And it's a shame no one remembers you for trying, because that's what shud count, not how much success you have or don't get. But I think if we really try things are different.

There is nothing like the feeling of having helped someone achieve something. It really is amazing. Or the feeling of giving away everything you have, throwing it all away to help someone. Giving someone the last drop of water, even though your throat is as dry as theirs, and watching the smile of gratitude on their face as they drink it...

Sure, life isn't worth it if you don't give it everything you have and help others see that its worth helping others see that it's worth helping others see that it's worth..etc. That is the paradox of life, the secret and solution to many pains and problems. It's hard to grasp, it doesn't make sense because we don't think like that, we can't imagine eternity or infinity or a never ending circle of love. But that's what I believe in. Prove me wrong if you can.

So I'm gonna do my best as soon as I get the chance. Every day I make small mistakes, I am only human. But every day I learn a bit more from my mistakes and maybe make one less the next day. And one day I'll do BIG things for the world, to start to make up for those small things I can't help doing wrong.

Think BIG and you'll do..something.

I WILL be DIFFERENT, I WILL do SOMETHING for this most AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL world we have. And I know others will try to help me. There is goodness in us all :D

And it'll be a hell lot of fun too ;)

Oh can't you see?

Course, people will always jump onto the first dream they find and then fall off when it hurtles round the bend faster than they realised it would, no matter how much you warned them. But nearly always they'll just get back on their feet and jump aboard again next time it comes round... It's life and some people never learn. Me? Go for it, take the risk, it's always worth it and you learn from everything that goes wrong. Hopefully you'll eventually learn that it's foolish to make the same mistakes again, because all you learn then is not to make the same mistake twice or you'll look like a bigger fool. Maybe I've just contradicted myself, but that makes the most sense to me!