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December, 2009

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“卡” – Stuck in the middle – looking at past and future, trying to decide where to go

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I’ve been playing with the idea of turning my blog into something different for a while, and I haven’t quite got a clear image in my mind of how I will change it. I think I would like to present my thoughts in a different way, maybe even present other thoughts than today. Also, I’ve been wanting to turn it into a travel blog with lots of photos for a while – that’s why I installed the NextGen Gallery a while ago that I so far haven’t used. Today, I upload all my photos to Picasa and Facebook, although I would prefer to keep them here, where I can describe each picture in a better way, by incorporating them into a story or blog about that day or event.

I’ve had a lot of stuff happening to my life in 2009, in many ways it has changed who I am and how I see my surroundings. In a way, I would like to share this with my readers – whomever you are – although I am uncertain about why I would like to share. Somehow, I think my experiences can be interesting for others to read about, and they might provoke ideas and thoughts with others that can in turn change the course of history. At the same time, I’m a little afraid of putting it all out there, with regards to employers or employees, personal relationships, business opportunities and other stuff. Both present and future, I might add. And for some reason, those are also the exact reasons why I want to do it. To put myself out there, show who and what I am. It surely will be demanding to write each post if I do, because I cannot do as I do now – post my ideas in a way which often require insight into my other thoughts to be able to understand correctly. And I wonder if it is possible to keep writing as personal a blog as this within a set of rules, or if the rules will make the content change into something less than the whole truth – or maybe it will be quite on the contrary, that it will become even more real, and more personal than now?

In accordance with these thoughts, I have started reading some books on web development. Today, I have learned the concept of the Elevator Pitch. I’ll need to define my site more clearly to be able to write my elevator pitch, and by doing this I might just have to get more active on the blog – it might even be more fun this way.

Today is the one year anniversary of my engagement of marriage.
May it rest it peace.

The last 365 days have been filled with every possible emotion.
I wonder what the coming 365 days will bring.

Wicking origins

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I’ve been interested in knowing a bit about the history of my name, Wicking, and have on occasion googled it to find out more. Tonight, I suddenly got the idea to check dictionary.com for it, after seeing their post on Facebook about the etymology of the word ‘reindeer’. Okay, here goes:

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“dairy farm,” now surviving, if at all, as a localism in East Anglia or Essex, it was once the common O.E. wic “dwelling place, abode,” then coming to mean “village, hamlet, town,” and later “dairy farm” (e.g. Gatwick “Goat-farm”). Common in this latter sense 13c.-14c. The word is a general Gmc. borrowing from L. vicus “village, hamlet” (see vicinity). Cf. O.H.G. wih “village,” Ger. Weichbild “municipal area,” Du. wijk “quarter, district,” O.Fris. wik, O.S. wic “village.”

Dictionary.com, “wicking,” in Online Etymology Dictionary. Source location: Douglas Harper, Historian. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wicking. Available: http://dictionary.reference.com. Accessed: December 24, 2009.

Christmas Eve

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I’ve not blogged since I was travelling to Taiwan.

Wow. Guess it’s been a while, huh?
Well, those 3 weeks in Taiwan was the best time I’ve had in a long time, and the fact that I wasn’t blogging about it must have meant that I was busy doing other stuff. I met some really nice people there and I totally loved each moment. I created a journal for myself which I was writing a lot in during my visit and I’ve kept writing it since I got back. No need for online posting, then.

After getting back (and for no apparent reason, right now I am curious about the word ‘whickle’) I have got myself a new guitar; a Jackson Adrian Smith signature, it is a total beauty and plays wonderfully! Also, I’ve taken up working out at the local gym, and I’ve completed a course in Mandarin Chinese. The teacher, Miss Zeng, is a wonderful girl with a beautiful smile, and she is a very kind teacher. Maybe a little too kind, as I have not been very good at doing my homework, 哈哈!:-)

Today is Christmas Eve, and true to tradition, most Norwegians are now cuddled around in their living rooms, opening their christmas presents after stuffing themselves with a huge meal. I did have a huge meal also; we had Pinnekjøtt, which is a traditional Norwegian dish made from dried sheep ribs. This was my first meal with meat since November, actually. Tomorrow will be my second one, which is the traditional English turky dinner with plum pudding dessert. Yum yum!

I’m wondering if my buddy has his traditional of friends gathering tonight. He’s got his fiancée here now, and his family was supposed to have the christmas dinner at his house this year. His brother, who lives in the same building, also has his Thai girlfriend here this christmas. She’s been here two times this year, she lives in England. I’ve not met her once. I wonder if she is a nice girl or not. She better be, because he deserves as good a girl as possible. I’ll send my friend a text later and ask if he minds if I stop by for a couple of beers or not later tonight.

Tomorrow, my brother will bring his kids and we’ll have the christmas breakfast, or brunch…. then opening the presents after breakfast. Somehow I feel the gifts of this year will feel very different from those of last year. It’s funny it has been a year and how much have changed. Oh well. That’s life I guess.

And now I should keep stuffing myself with candy and drinks, I suppose. AFter all, it is christmas only once – each year.