Quote of the month: " 'Cause every moment I'm with you, it's like I'm holding on to Heaven."
Songs of the month: The XX - Last Christmas (Wham! Cover)
Happy Holidays everyone! I am terribly sorry for the delay caused, but due to the promise I made and all the exam session just one step away from them, I couldn't focus on the blog, because it would lead me to overkill. Still I promised you a 3-Pack, one being released tonight and the other 2 following these days. Without wasting any more time, let's not waste any more time and lay waste upon the highlight reel about this amazing trip I had these last 12 months!
Part I: Santa's Dirty Helper
Beginning December, wasn't the way I wanted. As you may recall from the last chapter, I went back to Cluj, coincidentally with my roommates leaving in that week for a 3-day weekend. I then realized how much a fool I was, because, I could have met a lot more friends in that period of time, because most of them were returning in that same period. I was sitting alone in my room, to the point of going insane and starting to rant about this whole day of December 1st, which is supposed to be Romania's birthday, when all the people come together and unite, while I am stuck in another city all alone, and away from everyone. Then, Roxana texted me that she was mortified by all my comments, because she was feeling way too let down by everyone, and that I, of all people was the only motivation for her to keep moving on, but then when she saw I was myself so pissed off at life, she started being emotional.
Wasted no time, called her right on the spot, and tried to calm her down. In a weird way we have this magic to make ourselves feel better when talking, and so it was. I told her to stop the panic, because there's nothing worse that could happen to me right now, then to feel her sorrow. Then I told her why exactly this day bothered me, and then we got to the condolence part, where we both felt a lot better, growing the longing tenfold. Great stuff right here that once again makes me think that the chemistry between me and her was flawless (because we're the exact same person).
The next 2-3 weeks were extremely heavy for me, because I had a lot of labs to attend in time, for a decent vacation, and all of them were difficult to be far fetched. In the end I managed to attend all of them, then one thoughtful day, I got some extra money from Mamma Melvin to "finally have some fun". At first I was like, YEY! I can finally do some stuff, but then I realized I was 1 day away from home. Then this bright idea about the 3rd and last concept I bringed this year brainstormed.
I bought 5 special presents for 5 of my favorite girls this year: A rare marzipan chocolate bar, an iron pendant, an iron trinket, a glass trinket, and a potato muppet that grows hair when it gets wet on the head. Finally after I reached home, I met my long-time friend Alex (0), and marched our way to Melvin's for a snack and gossip. I then told him about the idea I had with these stuff I bought for those girls, and he thought I was really wanting to make a statement with them. Truth be told that's what I was intending, because those (girl) friends didn't knew how much I like them, as my general appreciation was mostly equal. I was originally planning to give 1 present at a day, all the way to Christmas eve, but then something strange really happened.
First of those girls (and my favorite from 2012) was obviously Roxana who wasn't doing meditation hours at 2 PM. Then I said, hey, the best of those presents is only hers, so I surprised her, said Merry X-Mas and gave her the muppet. She was so shocked of my return and present, that our chemistry level literally went beyond Space and Heaven. It was just like that, we realized, it really doesn't matter how much we're around each other, every moment we were together, would make us turn off the conscience, leave the world outside, because nothing at all that would ever make us feel, like anything's real, was turned into gold. Neither of us could wait to meet again, because it would turn into an epic story along the way. After gifting her, we had one of those Condolence hugs™ that would never end. We went to the ridge where we shot the final scenes from the "Unforgiven Farewell" movie on a snowy landscape on the exact same spot, where we last did that infamous hug. We relived those moments again, as this time would literally make us hold on to Heaven.
Something even funnier funny happened after that. I got a call from Alexx (Afri) and he asked me if I wanted to go to a movie called "The Hobbit" tonight. I replied affirmatively, and he asked me if I can go to Diana and her sister to get money, 'cause they would've liked to come too. Nevertheless, I went with Roxana to their residence, and asked for their share, telling me that they changed their mind and can't come anymore. Instead I told them that it's OK, because I still have something for them (those being the iron pendant and iron trinket). They were so shocked they jumped in my arms of happiness (and yes, that was 3/5 girls at the middle of the day gifted). Afterwards I resumed my time with Roxana and went shopping for clothes. Kinda weird the sales lady from there told Roxana to come after me in Cluj, but still, very good quality time spent together. Had a lot of fun up to that point. I then wished her farewell, because she was going to her village that day, and the next time we would meet would be on Christmas aftermath (more about that in Part 3) and 2 more times after the New Year's Day. Nevertheless, just golden time spent.
After waving goodbye to Roxana I went to the movie with Afri. It was OK-ish even though we both expected a lot more from it. So we went to prepare for tonight's event at The Rock. I was so excited because it was the first time since it's opening in September I would finally manage to reach. It was also an Classic Old-school Music night, which made even better. Arriving that palace dressed up in my old Metallica T-shirt, I met again like 20-30 familiar faces, while they where shocked to see me again after 3 long months with grown hair and all. Some of those familiar faces were also Cipry (Vegas), his girl Adelina, Justin, Dana, Vatushel, and Laura (the asian one). Back in the day I thought Vatushel and Laura were doing a one-night stand (without knowing they were actually together), so I entered troll-mode and started teasing them with live recording on my phone camera, driving them insane. That was real fun. Leaving the jokes aside, I remembered the last 2 girls I liked the most were also there, those being Adelina and Laura, so I dragged the separated them from they're respective boyfriends (both of them thinking I was stealing from their noses) and gifted them the last 2 presents (Ade the glass trinket, and Laura the chocolate). Same story here, they were both anxious about the presents, so they jumped and hugged me in happiness.
Then I went on to finish this amazing night with some well deserved sleep, and finishing my chores as "Santa's Dirty Helper" (NOT Little) all in just one day. The next morning I congratulated all those 5 lucky girls on Facebook and wished them a Merry X-Mas and Happy Holidays in case we wouldn't meet, all of those girls replying with very positive feedback. Most people were really asking, why did I did what I did? Answer was pretty easy for all those questions. Just like the The Hug-A-Mania Ro-Trip Tour from late February, and both Amsterlypse editions, I did this because of my friends. I love all of them good, bad and evil. And to show my appreciation I've done this last thing, to make some of those girls happy. After reading Part II, I will speak about the rest of the vacation how it went, my highlight reel in New Year's Eve, that epic night, and finally that one last wish I had for 2013.
Part II: That Weekly Music Video That Inspired Me This Month #4
I will now give to you TWMVTIMTM #4 in which I will express my feelings upon an amazing friend of mine called Roxana with these lyrics from late Nickelback, Holding on to Heaven. My take on it - it's either about getting back together with that special girl after a recent/short breakup, or it could possibly be about a new and budding relationship - with someone incredible! And make that relationship more important than anything. Enjoy!
Part III: That One Damn Happy New Year
Moving on to Christmas, I was so anxious for meeting all of my friends again after such a long time, referring to the first ones from childhood: Alex M., Christian, Marius, Alex (Micu'), Diana, Sabin, 0, and surprisingly Radu my ex-general school mate. Soon I would turn the Christmas Eve and Day into a 10-Day Holy Christmas Reprise, as I was slowly but steadily bringing back all of my friends not necessarily the first ones, but also the new ones (all that I mentioned earlier in Part I and many more), mixing things up with a blast of highlight reels. All of those days were just amazing, as we relived some great memories at Melvin's, and some past stories being revisited. We did everything. Talked, drank some, laughed insane, played games, hugged, gossiped, told stories, play Rummy, watched movies, remember epic moments, reliving epic moments, created epic moments, everything.
From a distinct side, of the story I got somewhere near the New Year's Eve, and really thought, OK it's resolutions time. But I really didn't had any idea what more could I want. Everything I said I was going to do, was accomplished in this amazing year of 2012. Also, it was that day, when Papa Melvin would like to party wild, so I really had to find a way to escape my home (in hope of being in a better environment). So the first I called was Laura, who was happy to take a long walk with me in the city for a little chit-chat. She asked me about a lot of stuff she wanted to ask to me for quite some time in the flesh, like how is it to be a student, who is Roxana and what's this connection between us, the success over this year's events I managed to do, and some of my favorite moments this year, while I asked her what was the shtick between her and Vatushel, her favorite moments, and advised her about choosing a faculty wisely. I really made an easy to understand resume about this year for me. I made it very clear from exactly one year before this 2012 will be my year. And so it was, I made 3 movements (those mentioned earlier in Part I), I started this blog to keep track with my lifeline, I got into college, I kept all of my friendships alive (well almost all of them, in fact all of them, you'll see near the end of this post), and I made a movie that solidified my personality concerning my friends. Then I told her everything about Roxana, and she was impressed, both on this relationship I have with her, but also on this wild year I had. Then we got to the resolution part. She said she wishes this year to be better, to have more money, and great friends, while I still didn't made up my mind about what to wish.
Anyway, I left her home, gave her one last 2012 Scorpion-hug™ wished her a Happy New Year. Then it happened to me. Arguably the the best damn happy new year I ever had. It started with me meeting Alex M., Micu', Cipry and Ade a little later after the walk, when Alex M. unveiled to me a very mind-numbing secret he's hidden to me for such a long time (for peacekeeping I will leave it that way, won't unveil it). It continued with going to his place, and laughing at some very old movies with us and drinking/dancing weird. Later that night at approximatively 10 PM, I received a text message in my thought, a typical Happy New Year SMS we all get tired of, but surely not from a person I was expecting.
After 3 and ¼ months of complete silence, it was now her turn to break character and tell me that she doesn't want me to end this year thinking I was forgotten by her, or didn't meant anything to her and in finally telling those 3 heavy words with 8 peculiar letters. It was Andra. My reaction to this: I was shocked for the first like 10 seconds, then laughed maniacally because it was something like that secret Alex M. told me. Totally didn't saw it coming. Nevertheless I opened my heart at least this time and after a few more text messages, I invited her to begin 2013 the same way we did in 2012, and stop by at Melvin's. In her words, she was really relieved to see that I wouldn't even end 2012 like she thought, and that I'd still really really really like her. So this renewed friendship got back on track.
Short in between story, I rushed my way home to wish my parents a Happy New Year and all that stuff, and make some popcorn for the boys. Surprisingly I didn't found any of them home, so I called Mama Melvin. She couldn't hear a thing I say, when I asked her where are they, she was shouting "Happy New Year!". After asking her the 8th time she finally understood what I wanted to say and told me she's with Papa Melvin and some neighbors at a local concert in New Year's. So I rushed to that place with fireworks flying everywhere, drinks falling to glass shatters, people wishing "Happy New Year!" left, right, front and behind, and a crowd hard to pass with 3 packs of popcorn on a carry. Finally I saw my parents wished them "Happy New Year!" and rushed back to Alex M.'s.
A little later that night, we met with Sabin who got just in time for the fireworks and nearly got us killed with them, then we laughed uncontrollably because we managed to pass them by our skin of our teeth. Resuming the fun back at Alex M. I remember having a very shameful moment to Alex's dad, but that was also a memorable laughing-to-tears moment. After everything was done I would say goodbye to all my friends and go home, meeting Papa Melvin who was getting ready for work that exact same morning. This was surely That One Damn Happy New Year, I never thought I would ever get to see. So many shocking, yet deliriously memorable amazing moments, and all of those in less then 10 hours. I would rate this Happy New Year a perfect 10, for not wasting a second for having fun and total nonstop action.
All in all, I can say 2012 was the best damn year in my whole life, and I can't imagine anything better than this, but if I could, this would be my one last resolution for 2013. To make just as big as 2012, if not even better. I want to keep these 3 (soon 4) movements, I want to keep all my friendships alive, because I'm a dead man without them, I want to have success in the next days as a student in college, I want to extend my barriers to Cluj, I want to stay alive (even if it means, clinging down the line by the skin o' my teeth), and in the end I want hugs that really mean something from people. My people. My world. My kingdom.
Thank you everyone for reading Chapter XII, and for watching a wild road of a young punk who molded into a better man, all thanks to his friends. I loved sharing these stories with you, and as you may notice, I will keep this blog for one more year to see where it goes. 'Till then I'll wait 1 more day to finish writing January's Chapter XIII: Captive Honor. Thank you for all the support you gave me in the last 12 amazing months, and here's to another amazing 12. God bless you all, and peace!
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| You friends are the reason why I'm still holding on to Heaven... |
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