Good-bye 2008

You know how they always say that sequels are never good? Well, I have been living my own private version of “Ruptured Ovarian Cyst - 2” and, believe me, it has been just as watching a bad movie twice: very painful and never-ending.

But I am not allowing this to stop me from writing a wrap-up of the main events of 2008. No, I won’t go into the ‘Obama-Beijing Olympics-Credit Crunch’ review. Too many people are already writing and talking about this today. I am going a bit more personal.

For me, this year meant embracing technology further in my own life. I have allowed it to bring me closer to friends I had lost touch with from all over the world. If I want to know how my friend living in Canada is doing today I just have to check his Facebook status … if I am curious to know how my friend in Australia is doing professionally I just click on the LinkedIn update notification in my inbox.

I have allowed myself to share in a way I never did before. Not an avid e-mailer, I now know that I can ‘shout’ my thoughts to the world by writing this blog instead of writing individually to everyone I care for.

I have come to realize even more that the world is getting smaller; that there is no need to invent the wheel anymore; that the world is full of ‘copy/paste’ ideas, cloned and adapted to different cultures somehow, but cloned after all.

Just take a look at this video to see what I mean. It is absolutely hilarious! You have a Bulgarian woman who turns Air Supply’s (or later Mariah Carey’s) “Without You” into something she calls “Ken Lee”. If this is not proof that the world is getting smaller, I don’t know what it is.

I leave you with this thought … until 2009.