The Sloppiest Year of My Life

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I broke my glasses while I was in Vietnam. Actually it got slammed when I was trying to close taxi door, but so far almost nobody could believe it. Yanagita and Makii even accused that it was because I looked so much at Vietnamese girls that the strength of my sight crumped my poor glasses :-) (They said this because Yoshizawa-san, who was in Vietnam with me, said that I was taking some girls into my hotel room. Two girls indeed visited me, but they were my friend’s sister and her friend, and we did nothing fishy, unless they teaching me how to say ‘I love you’ in Viet could be categorized into one :-) ). Anyway, despite all ‘allegations’, without being asked Yanagita escorted me to an optic so I could make a new pair.

But back to the broken glasses, after giving a second thought, it might hard to believe that someone could be so careless to get his glasses slammed by a taxi door. However, I’d been careless in lots of occasions last year and looking back to all that had happened makes crushing my pity little glasses won’t look even close to an accident at all.

Well, my friends who know me well must’ve learned that I’m reckless by nature, but particularly for important thing, few would see me as a careless person. Even some of my friends feel save when they have me in the room while doing experiment, because sometimes I warn them if there’re something misplaced that could lead to danger (I don’t know whether they will still feel safe if they know how I had been last year :-) ). I should still be grateful that none of my recklessness led to any catastrophe; I was still able to deliver report on time and my research went close to as planned. However, I did most of the works on the last hours of deadline, which was not a good practice at all. And what happened last year was not just that.

To add up to the list: I showed up late in several party where I’ve been invited; rose late at the day of mount Fuji hiking (glad I was still able to catch the train); and forgot that I had already promised to see Star Wars 3 with Yanagita (we finally moved it to another day). Well, if I sometimes put off my works ‘till the last moment, it’s not big issue. Procrastination is nothing new for me; I sometimes exhibit that kind of habit when I get bored, and the things that I need to do is just getting new air and everything will come back normal soon. But if I forget to watch Star Wars, and that didn't happen only for once or twice, there must be a problem.

Anyway, it all had passed, and I won’t blame anything or anybody for what happened last year; it was all from me and it is me who has to do something about it (I even need to say thanks to those around me who supporting me the whole year thru’). I think it’ll be a good resolution for this new year: ‘To make last year the sloppiest year of my life’ (i.e. ‘To make the years to come far better than last year...’). All I need to do now is to find a way to make it come true, and I hope I’ll find it.

By the way, happy new year, and I hope your year will last as you wish it to be, just like I wish mine will too.