Hai gaiz!!
First of all, thank you everyone for thinking of me!! The feelings are much appreciated, really!
I feel like the person who opens a new thread for someone's birthday kind of ends up having a responsability of doing a good job at doing something funny and finding a suitable caek and adding witty comments.
And of course, as anyone would have expected, Octo did an outstanding job!! I think it captures the essence of wackiness racing has, as well as how sometimes the end of the line is... wait, did our life come to an end already? Oops!!
It was a good one, albeit not particularly special!! I woke up, watched some races and wrote some articles, talked to my girlfiend (fiancée, actually
) on Skype and hung out with some friends who came to meet me before going out for dinner with my family. The cake was delicious and the day was generally relaxing. Oh, and I got a nifty Evangelion book I had been waiting for. Good stuff!
I'll proceed to thanking you individually...
Tack, Shademp!! It was as great as birthdays can be! (Just normal days really, though, right?)
Cookie Monster is always appreciated, Avec!! So thank you!
We haven't had the chance to talk much, Sicarius, but you used big cookie monster smileys and you have Shinji as your avatar. We'll get along.
Thanks!
It was good, really, I promise, Flare!! Many thanks!!
Thank you Mayo!!
Hopefully the day was good so your wishes arrived well, Dawn! Thank you very much!!
Thanks Tennyo, birthday was good!
It was definitely a gooder, Channy. Lucky me!! Thanks
Thanks, Fangu!!
¡Muchas gracias! Damn, I'm lucky the hottest hispanic around spares some time for me. Fine piece of woman there!!
Eeeep, Ghost's speeding!! Thank you very much!!
Thanks, Red!! It was a very good birthday, within reason!!
And because I haven't been posting very much lately, I'll take the chance to write a little bit about what I've been up to lately and why and all that... Things have been hectic here. While I do get time to play some games and whatnot, I doubt I have ever been busier. I've been struggling with stuff lately because my work's not going as well as I would want it to. I'm writing articles for several websites, doing TV work for a relatively important network in the world of racing (though the pay is... questionable) and I've been trying to start sorting out my life because at some point I'll need to get a "normal" job since the racing stuff is not really working. I'll still keep racing jobs on the side, as long as I can, hoping I'll get somewhere. I also had a relatively close death from someone who had been mentoring me a bit. He was a renowned journalist who gave me good advice and always put on a good word for me. I was honoured that he had mentioned me a few times on his personal blog and felt that he held me in high enough regard. While I personally feel his loss from a professional point of view the most, he was a genuine man and one that will be missed in our spheres. Other than that, things are a bit static in terms of opportunities, despite the fact that I got to work as a journalist within a Formula 1 Grand Prix race for the second time in my life after doing that in 2014.
Once again, it was my home race in Spain, which is of course as exciting as it was crazy, as I was only confirmed my media pass after I had committed to doing work for other people, so I had to work everywhere. Still, it went well and definitely better than my first experience, which shows I'm getting better, I hope. This year I hope to go to other F1 races... planning for it to be Singapore and Malaysia if my applications go well, though we will see. I'm also going to France next month for a couple of days for work to one of the most important races in the world (all expenses paid and working, which is fantastic) and there is a very small chance that I might be going to Macau in November (though in this case, I'd have to pay for it all). So even if not everything happens, it's still an exciting year because -some- of the things are happening and that's cool. I was able to impress some key people with my knowledge of Japanese and I'm waiting to see if I might get good news regarding a possible small job (I don't think I'll get it but as I always say, at least things are moving). So it's something.
I've been talking to my girlfriend (as I said before, fiancée, for almost a year now) and we have decided to wait for everything until we both have a proper job. She does, in Singapore. And I don't, anywhere. So the idea is getting something decent/good in Spain so that she can come here, soon. I'd like for it to be within 2016 but if I can't, at least I want to make it happen within 2017. Let's hope I'll get things done fast!!
So while the last few weeks and months haven't been easy and I've felt stressed and slightly depressed sometimes, I still want to push forward. I don't want to give up in racing nor in life. Let's see how it all goes... and sorry for the long wall of text!!
tl;dr: Thank you all, there'se been a bunch of reasons why I haven't been so active, but I'm definitely here and making efforts.
