Personal year in review

[Cyco]

This is for highlights and low lights of the year, with a statement of how you feel at the end of it.

Highlights:
Road trip to Melbourne, with clutch-monkey and Blue Supra to meet Sauc3
Attempting to buy AML
Meeting lots of UCPers at various events
Making lots of friends from UCP (and other forums) both on-line and spending time with them
Seeing the community spirit around those in need (ie Doug's thread)
Lots of UCP gatherings at other events (Classic Adelaide, Motor show)
Helping others get what they want

Lowlights:
Not buying AML
Not keeping as fit as I would like
Running out of money in Adelaide (Thanks Daan)

Overall:
Excellant

[Waugh-terfall]

Highlights:
Making new friends
Getting a job, thus earning money
Getting Dad's car
Teaching myself to drive & driving
Seeing my ex girlfriend Vicky again (I miss that girl)
Sleeping under an Audi Q7 on Audi stand at Cowdray Polo Gold Cup
Meeting up with SamC on Christmas Day


Lowlights:
Not moving house yet
Not getting puppy yet
Not keeping some promises
Vicky breaking up with me
Not keeping as fit as I would like (true to me too)
Still getting shit at school

Overall:
JUST above average

[johnnynumfiv]

Highlights:
Graduating High School
Meeting new friends, getting to know more about old friends
Going to as many racing events as I could
Getting my first job
Dropping out of college
Signing up for an autobody school
Loosing weight
Getting a job at a garage
Helping to restore a '69 camaro

Lowlights:
Wasting money by going to college
Arguments with my father
Screwing up some relationships

Overall:
Great, I just have to learn from mistakes and move on.

[IBrake4Rainbows]

Highlights
Graduating High School
Earning a 79.75 UAI (University Admissions Index) when I only needed a 70.
Turning 18
Getting my First Car
Helping with my parents renovations
Finally fitting in at school
The Sydney International Motor Show

Lowlights
2 Broken Relationships.
Major Friend Trouble - Still Unresolved
Severe cost of Ownership related to automobile

Overall
EXTREMELY positive. there are some minor glitches on an otherwise momentous year for Sam Number 1

[clutch-monkey]

^ chronologically i'm no.1 sam...
highlights:
still alive, could've gone either way
melbourne trip with cyco, sauc3 and blue supra, much hilarity
hanging out with whiteballz (includes driving over to his house to play xbox..)
first year of vet science - pure insanity
getting premium from adrenaline (thanks for reminder slick)
attended first track day ever - in a porsche GT3
bought 3 mini clubmans

lowlights
bought 3 mini clubmans
i don't have a GT3RS
i'm pretty much broke

overall
freaking awesome. and i didn't even lose my pants that often.

[SlickHolden]

Highlights.
Watching my AFL team get off the bottom of the ladder too become the most exciting dangerous team in the game.
Meeting some of the guys on UCP.
Hiring a Holden VE Calais for 3 days.
Getting some great work done on my car, Exhaust Suspension etc.
Being given a premium subscription by Adrenaline, Was one of the nicest things someone has ever done for me.
Chris Grants 330 record braking game.
Buying my first digital Camera.
Loosing 3kg in 1 weekend. (Eating 3 meals a day)
Can't think of anymore.

Lowlights
Most i can't publicly mention.
My Car Accident a few weeks ago.
Loosing my Transmission 250km from home with no help as always.
Loosing so many great icons in 06.
Watching 5 players on my team go down with season ending knee injury's.
Everything coming too a head and leaving UCP and other Forums.
Having the worst internet on the planet.
Having Telstra **** me over about Cable internet.
Splitting a tendon in my hand.
Putting on 3kg in 1 weekend. (Eating 2 meals a day)

Overall
It's been one shit year for my mother and i. We have learnt we don't have as many friends as we thought we did, Also Family.

[adamfraser]

Highlights

Starting a new sport that i love and cant stop doing, that keeps me fit enough so that i can sit around and do fark all the rest of the time. (Kite Flying/ Buggy Racing- Sounds queer but honestly it aint one of these crap things you buy for £20 down the market)
Exam Results
Seeing people i hadnt seen in a good 5 years
Big storms
Meeting new friends in the kiting community.
How i saved all my money

Lowlights
How i saved all my money and spent it on 2 things in 5hrs.
Nearly ended up with horrific injuries doing the sport i love - If i didnt hit my energency quick-release at the time i did, i would have gone head first over stone and into a 30ft brick wall - my helmet fell off when i impacted the ground, which left me unable to walk for a good 2 weeks.

Overall
Bloody good year for me!

[Sweeney921]

Highlights
- Pros of having a girlfriend
- 1st place in a national kickoff yardage competition (Football)
- Quitting first job
- Second job
- Getting into college
- 41 yard game winning field goal
- 18th birthday
- RC car racing

Lowlights
- Cons of having a girlfriend
- Right medial meniscus tear
- Right hip flexor tear (very bad for a right footed kicker)
- 2 fender benders
- First driving ticket (no right on red, bullshit ticket)

Overall
Alright year, definitely had better though.

[adrenaline]

Highlights:

Strangely, I can't find anything that's worthy of being a highlight for 2006. I'm still alive, I guess Oh, and I went premium with UCP

Lowlights:

There have been many of them, from fighting with my father to some health dramas

Overall:

2006 has been a shocker. I don't ever want a repeat of it...but unfortunately some of the problems I've had are out of my control and will haunt me in the new year. I'm hoping 2007 will be alot better though.

[IWantAnAudiRS6]

Highlights:
- Met my best friend
- Picked up an awful lot of new mates off here
- Passed my driving test
- Totally in love for quite a while
- Been through over 20 girls, a target I've been meaning to break
- Kept up 11 guitars until 23rd December, then it was 10- self-restraint!
- Driven more cars than I did last year
- Got a brilliant new job
- Passed my AS levels
- Successfully gigged twice with my band
- Got a great new classical guitar teacher
- Frickin' AWESOME parties

Lowlights:
- Breaking up with the only girl I ever loved
- Worries about uni and passing my A-levels
- 'Mitigating circumstances' regarding a vehicle and a kerb
- Cleaning up my best mate's sick this morning
- Selling a guitar
- Being in debt so much I'm considering selling a kidney to stay afloat
- Realising that my sister still hasn't grown up, despite being 6 years older than me
- About 10 of the 20 aforementioned girls had boyfriends... sorry, chaps!

Overall:
Some very, very shocking moments, but overall a nice, consistent year. Roll on 2007.

[Waugh-terfall]

Highlights:
- Met my best friend
- Picked up an awful lot of new mates off here
- Passed my driving test
- Totally in love for quite a while
- Been through over 20 girls, a target I've been meaning to break
- Kept up 11 guitars until 23rd December, then it was 10- self-restraint!
- Driven more cars than I did last year
- Got a brilliant new job
- Passed my AS levels
- Successfully gigged twice with my band
- Got a great new classical guitar teacher
- Frickin' AWESOME parties

Lowlights:
- Breaking up with the only girl I ever loved
- Worries about uni and passing my A-levels
- 'Mitigating circumstances' regarding a vehicle and a kerb
- Cleaning up my best mate's sick this morning
- Selling a guitar
- Being in debt so much I'm considering selling a kidney to stay afloat
- Realising that my sister still hasn't grown up, despite being 6 years older than me
- About 10 of the 20 aforementioned girls had boyfriends... sorry, chaps!

Overall:
Some very, very shocking moments, but overall a nice, consistent year. Roll on 2007.

"SAM GET OUT OF THE ROAD YOU MORON! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!!??" - Waving to let cars know of possible danger -

"Hi, My brother's crashed his car" - Hasn't crashed, just smacked a kurb... -

[jorismo]

Highlights:
- Graduating at school
- Having over 1,5 year relationship with my girlfriend (now getting to the 2 year mark)
- Getting a ride in the Audi S8
- Buying my first camera
- A 3-day trip to Paris with my girlfriend
- Awesome 3 week vacation to Croatia
- Getting a new job
- Going to a new awesome school

Lowlights:
- Not winning the lottery... I really can't think of anything other...

Overall
And extremely good year... Life's good!

[LandQuail]

Oh, lordy.

Here's the lowlights.

Godawful job at the local school bus factory.

Godawful job trying to sell insurance for a gang of assholes.

Godawful job detailing cars, in a little metal building, in the middle of a 100-degree plus Arkansas heat wave.

Other than all the wretched jobs, it was a pretty good year.

And the highlights:
Getting engaged.

Quitting my last job detailing cars to write for the local newspaper.

My best friend having a kid.

Winning at my first try autocrossing and getting to write about it for the paper.

Interviewing Dax Riggs, the most hardcore, talented, brutal, brilliant, and under-appreciated death-metal frontman of all time.

Winning a couple awards on this website.

[my porsche]

Highlights
- 1st place in a national kickoff yardage competition (Football)
- Getting into college
- 41 yard game winning field goal

Did you get in on a scholarship?

[Monty_Burns]

Highlights
- Getting my learner's licence and driving and all that
- Getting picked for a sprinting academy
- Doing alright at school
- New Friends
- Parties

Lowlights
- Quitting Basketball Team
- Continuing to put off getting a job
- General teenage stuff...boredom, hating stuff, going thru weird phases
- Being 2nd-best at English in my year (best mate deemed to be the best, he gets trophy, teacher tells me I was unlucky).

Overall - dunno....about a 6.5/10. A big improvement on 2005 (which was just shit), but I reckon 2007 could be a ripper. I've got alot of stuff lined up, alot of stuff I wanna do. 'Tis an important year as well....first year of NCEA (New Zealand's extremely stupid national qualifications system) for me....important I do well.