See Saw

2009 is history. For the last six years I've been blogging about the ups and downs at the end of every year. Although my blog has been taken over almost completely by show notes for my weekly Mużika Mod Ieħor podcast, I still manage to sneak in all sort of (seemingly) unrelated comments and entries on a regular basis. In any case, this whole exercise continues to simply be a collection of snapshots gathered at specific moments in time rather than a detailed chronicle.

This year, my partial and most subjective list of blog entries from the year gone by, continues to be inflected almost completely by my podcast show notes. So, in random order, here's the list of highs and lows in my year, as captured on my blog throughout 2009:

UPPERS

5 Years since WPW Syndrome diagnosis and I'm still here!

Pierre J. Mejlak's Qed Nistenniek Nieżla max-Xita

MySpace lives on

The resurgence of Twitter as an alternative social networking utility

Catching up with live music in Malta: April + October

Discovering No Bling Show

Music video from No Bling Show's Lucija u Samwel

The MMI Podcast is now brought to you by Vodafone

Free Wi-fi on National Express trains

Visiting Moscow + Isle of Man + Hungary

Hello Wordpress!

High hopes with/for Obama

The joys of December

AHRC Sabbatical Award for 2009/10

Waterloo Sunset

20 Years since 1989


DOWNERS

40 Years since 1969

The eye-watering rise of Facebook

Malta Eurosong 2009

Malta at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest

Failure of the Green uprising in Iran

January takes Mike Francis too

Rest in Peace, my teachers:
Augusto Boal - Charles Camilleri - Charles Clews - Brooks McNamara

Rest in Peace, my friends:
Dennis Vella - Remo Mifsud - Niki Falzon

...and the icons too:
Wendy Richard - Michael Jackson - Les Paul - Farrah Fawcett

So much to do, so little time

Putting these lists together has become a wonderful way for me to reflect on the highlights and the lowpoints of the year gone by. It is one of the few things that remained consistent throughout the life of this blog. I say this mainly because I know that this blog will once again be undergoing some transformation/s in the coming weeks and months.

Until then, I'd like to thank you for reading my blog and/or listening to my podcasts in 2009 and a special thanks if you contributed to all that in any way...I wish you a very happy new year!