The Year 2006

[teh yoshi]

So, how did 2006 treat you?
Was it the best? Worst? Could've had better? What were the highlights of the year, high and low?

[Max "Snow" Andershi]

I'm not even sure that I can remember everything from 2006, but I remember it treating me well for the most part..

I remember going to an anime convention in March, which was awesomely fun for me, and then in May I had an oline friend visit for a week, but we barely did anything 'cause it was so hot out XD Also in May, in fact when that very friend was visiting, I re-joined a different Yoshi community that I frequented in the past for personal reasons.. But, it got me back into Yoshi moreso than I had been, and in July I followed up by joining up here at Yoshi's Corner, and at the same time got an apartment with my roommate from school

Since then has been a very interesting ride, considering the fact that I've met so many new people.. You, John, as well as Toshi, Twi, Strangie, Ruru, Yoshiko, Blood, pleban, Sky, GD, Gar.. The list goes on and on, and I'm thankful that I've gotten to know each and every one of you

I haven't known any of you for a year yet, but hopefully the new year will help me to continue to get to know all of you and build friendships that will last as long as they can, to stand along with my other friendships that I've built through the years.. Happy New Year to you all

((Oh, also, Christmas was a crazy time XD People going up and down and the giving and receiving of gifts.. Anyone I've talked to knows how that was for me, practically))

May the new year offer new possibilities for happiness to you all; that is all I truly hope for in the coming months

[Enrique]

2006 was sort of an interesting year for me... It didn't seem as if there was much middle ground; it was a year of many highs and lows. Overall, as a year, it was a fairly good year.

Personal highs for me include: the amazing progression of my climatology project for ASR, witnessing my school become men's basketball champions in their class, obtaining a TI Voyage 200, and making a ton of new friends, both on- and offline.

Personal lows include: watching my family become horribly divided, witnessing my school initiate a financial crisis, and witnessing the Raiders become the most pathetic football team ever.

[Twi]

2006 seemed to be a very melancholy year for me. Not much really happened, all the minorly interesting things were countered by a crap thing and vica versa. I met a few new people this year (I think I met you, John, at the very start of last year in an MKDS game, and I also met Jordan, which is kinda cool)

Also this year I got a new computer and released myself from the tyranny that is early turning off computer time, a few good video games came out, but not too much elsewhere, I lead a boring life really.

This year I hope to get a 360 finally, just need some freaking money. Also GCSEs for me, joy!

[Wildfire the Dragon]

Well...for me..medicore, could be a LOT better.

My school year hasn't be so...special, 10th grade, man...a ton of people are just plain jerks at my school, doesn't know when to shut up, doesn't know when to stop picking on younger people(Like me, sadly), it gets on a person's nerves very easily, even me. Well...I did meet some great friends at school like Tyresse and Randall, they helped a lot, especially Randall for getting me back into music by lettting me listen to his MP3 Player. Tyresse is cool too, good at RPing, made up his own characters too, that's rare to find where I live at.

Here, was the best time of my life, Role-Playing, meeting new friends and all that jazz, I would like to thank everyone hear for making my life...well..better, since my life just plain sucks sometimes off the computer, it depends though, sometimes it's ok...DA has some great people as well, since a lot helped me out there too...

It's good I was able to get Nintendo's lastest console before they sold out here, thanks to my aunt for calling me and letting me know, it was a close race, but I won. =D

Overall, it's been pretty cool around YC, Da, and all the other places I know...I have to admit, times were good and bad...but hey, it's 2007, I rather forget most of the bad things in the past, you know? Somewhat start over on a few things. ^^ But I liked 2006 a lot, and can't wait what 2007 has in store.

[Rackinac]

Last year, 2006, I went from being a tottal social outcast to social butterfly. ^^ I had a lot more fun, made more friends. But it went by way too quickly for me to say anything else. >>

[Potwin]

Well i started using those hiphop pants (sorta) they are not that splat, but many hiphoppers use them xD. Besides i don't listen to hiphop >>

I got only 7 in cooking (4-10 is the grades)

I got to be a more social person, i have more fun and like to hangout more.

I have to sleep so much nowadays LEVEL UP ! ! crazy

[Toshi]

I can't say 2006 was the best year i've ever had, but it hasn't been horrible to me either. I guess overall, it's been a decent year for me.

One of my better highlights to this year was meeting Max, RedYoshi and Yosher for the first time. Man, you three are so awesome to me, you really are, i Double-scoop ice cream you all!

I also recieved a really really nice present off Sky at the beginning of the year, i think it was about March time, and what came through the post off him was something i've always wanted, and that was a Yoshi plush. You know how much that really means to me Sky, i can't thank you enough for it.

It has also been a nice year to really let myself come alive, and it's really helped me become more comfortable with myself, but i think due to that, it paid the price of losing interaction with a lot of cool friends here at YC, but it's something i'm starting to get over, even tho i'd love to speak to those guys once again...

Oh, and i absolutely loved work at one point over the past year, and that was hearing that i was being underpaid... how is that a bad thing? Well when you're told that you're getting that money that they owe you, you look forward to recieving a lovely wage packet in your next pay (which was £900, hurr! Double-scoop ice cream).

My birthday was a great highlight to the year as well, so many gifts off you lovely people, it made me feel so special, it really did.

Last, but not least, a successful comic series! My orginal project was to become a comic artist when i first appeared on this site, but because of my lack of motivation (and lack of audience interest) i couldn't get anywhere with it, but now, i think i've managed to hit one on the nose, and actually get a comic series going! Sure, it follows no story, and nor is it the most hilarious thing you've ever seen, but i'm actually happy with the interest taken in by you, the audience (that is, if you've seen them), so yeah, thank you for the support with it, and keep on reading them, please!

So overall, how was 2006? I give it 7/10.

[Lord of the Dance]

Eurgh. Bad.

I got banned from talking to several people, the new teachers at school are... bah. Other things started that I'm really not pleased with, too.
On the other side, I got an iPod, I got to become more familiar with a lot of people around here, I went on a cruise (Double-scoop ice cream), and I fixed up my drawing style quite a bit. You should have seen last year D=

[Anjil]

The best so far. ;D

Good things of 2006:
• I graduated from high school this year, and also started college, which I must say is putting a lot LESS pressure on me than in high school.
• We had a wonderful 2-week vacation in Hawaii over the summer, and then a 4-day road trip to New Mexico afterwards. Ah, memories.
• Kurtis got to spend 3 days at my house over the summer~ ♥
• I turned 18 (which can be good or bad)
• Met some more people both online and offline who turned out to be excellent friends ♥
• I sent out Christmas prints to online friends for the first time, and received some presents in return~

Sucky things:
• I still need a flippin' job. D: Darn you, Coco's!

Aaand... looks like the Goods outweigh the Bads! So yes, it was an extremely good year. I hope 2007 will treat me somewhere around the same way.

[Brute]

It turned out to be pretty great.

Good:
~ I made the All-State Chorus for the 3rd time in a row, and perfected my highschool singing career.
~ I turned 18 on St. Patty's Day. ;D
~ I graduated from highschool, and started college on a vocal music scholarship. Its going great so far!!
~ I got to go to the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute for the 2nd year in a row.
~ I all of a sudden became a fan of Jack Johnson. XD
~ I finally started using MSN, and made alot of awesome friends. ;D
~ I qualified for the state powerlifting meet after placing 4th at the regionals.
~ I finished in the top 10 at the state powerlifting meet.

Bad:
~ I sprained my knee during an All-Star highschool football game.

Yep. Thats about it I guess. XD

[Fluory]

So my year was pretty super special awesome. A step up from last year, that's for sure. And last year had some pretty big ups.. also a lot of downs, but whatever. I'd say this is the best year so far in my life of few years.

Anywho, this year was pretty good relations-wise. David is an amazing friend, and he's cool, and he talks to me. The talking to me part means he is especially special and cool, and stuff. He's a really funny guy. And I had quite a few laughs and whatnot with Skye and we had fun looking at each other's artwork and other boring things like that. Had quit ea few, nice phone conversations. And John (Muz, for the majority of your who don't know him) is a really cool friend; he showed me that not all of Maple Story sucks. And we had a lot of fun in that and Guild Wars; hooray. Lots of fun with him, he's really fun to talk to, as well. And my two best offline friends, Shayn and Andy, made school suck less than it should. Shayn's a really kind guy and actually let me hug him, and he always listened to me rant about what I was irritated at -- he even tried to make sense what I was ranting about that had to do with online things. Andy was fun to be with, we joked around a lot, and stuff. Had a lot of fun in American History class with a student teacher called Lance, and stuff.

The amount of close friends I have is fast and danger. :D Just how I like it.

Boring stuff, making posts dedicated to friends, eh?

Aside from how cool people like Muz and Skye are, I, uh...

Uh, I got a D in geometry. But at least I had mostly A's and a few B's in other stuff. Screw geometry. PE sucked, too. I hate PE; but I'm done with it forever and for always now, so that makes things cool.

I made a lot of leaps in the quality of my art, which is cool. Still trying to fine-tune the gradient shading and to learn how to do different variations in it for different situations or something like that. And, of course, extensive work on improving my anatomy and how well I can handle different poses is underway.

Stylizing and improving your art is great fun, eh wot.

And, uh, that's about it.

Oh, yeah, there's also this one really amazing guy. He's called Jim. And he's probably what made this year really awesome, in particular I mean. He even got to visit me twice this year; back last summer for my birthday, and he's right beside me playing some weird-ass video game on his laptop. So that's really special to me.

2007 seems promising. So hooray.

I just don't wanna go back to school. And it will suck when Jim leaves; oh well, makes the times he is here much more special.

Also, some people Joshi have been a tad on the annoying side.

[plebanshiren]

the year 2006 hasn't been so kind to me

the only upsides I can think of is that, I joined YC and DA and improved greatly on my artwork (atleast.... ithink I have)

[Moot]

2006 wasn't bad, as years go.

2007 so far sucks hardcore

[Yoshiken]

2006 was a pretty great year for me.

I mean, I graduated high school and moved onto College, which is actually easier than I expected. Not to say that it will stay that way, especially when the new semester starts.

I was able to spend a lot of time with Angela this year, which is always priceless. I also earned quite a good amount of money from various jobs as well.

I also got a new computer which has been gold to me.

However, I have become a tad bit lonely from foolishly not staying in touch with High School friends when we all went off to different colleges. I mean, I still have a few that I was able to stay in touch with, but the majority is gone and most likely gone for good. At least I have the lot of you all to keep me company ^^.

2007 will probably be the most interesting year to date. Ill be going on my mission, and to tell you all the truth, i'm quite nervous. Its going to take a lot of hard work and determination to get through my mission, and I just don't know if I can do it all. All I can do is just go out there and give it my all. However, I will miss you all for those 2 years that I am gone.

Thats not to say that this year will be full of surprises for us all ^^.

[Contention]

What happened in the year of 2006? Now that's an expansive and very large question; so much has seemed to occur that it's beyond even the normal capacity to remember. However, most actions that peeked out and about seemed to spray from one natural outlet. This, strangely enough would be the YC; however, this does not mean that every "constructed" memory is a positive one. The YC, deep down, is a lot more brash than gentile.

In honesty, something that happened this year that staples the mind is the meeting of Pawy. It was that introduction that seemed to establish many future outcomes. Her name had been long known from a relation she once held with a member at YC; that of which, may not wish to be named. She was kept very secret during that period, and her formality on the Yoshi's Corner was short and sweet. However, as more members began to know her name and existance; she started to grow like the seed in a plot of soil. While not fully matured into the forums, she went from place to place. Perhaps a stalker of the shadows, for she was able to keep her identity quite blemished. Yet even in that scroll of time, she made her movements implanted in many a conscience; for her true era of sprouting was soon to come, and it would be this action that would alter a long course of stale history.

Alter? More like uproot. Her first realistic appearance, at least by opinion, was in the first stages of the Yoshi's Corner Chat. She had kept herself so long underneath the mainstream, that her showing was quite mysterious. It was odd, peculiar, and far from normal; however, it was in that same period that many learned her tight bond with Lazo. So obviously something had shifted from the last relationship, and Pawy had found herself in the arms of something dear. Dear at least we say, for the two have been "together" many a time; it's not just physical, it's deeply emotional. One of the few online relationships that sets it's standards in stone. It was never highly adorned, nor banished unlike others; they were able to keep patient and quiet. Maybe we as a community can learn from them, that love is not an item; you don't draw it, you don't preach it, you just do it. They love as love should be taken, and this is how the story pretty much begins to unfold. If things had been diffrent, why, Pawy may have never stepped into the pure sunlight.

Sunlight at the Yoshi's Corner Chat, now that's a fabrication. If it was more defined, the word might be Moonlight, Fog, or Rain; nothing positive though. Oh those early days, perhaps those can be eluded in some "happy" manner. Such a room was the victory helm for a recent defeat and seperation of YA. Some might come to say that this was a huge personality changer for many Yoshi's Corner occupants, yet it was not. The Yoshi's Corner had already undergone bruises before this beasty took it's toll. With a little love and care, a bandage was placed on the flesh of this community; even if it was in the form of a lowly AIM chat room. Few can possibly remember those days, it was the birth of what you see now on IRC. Opinion enough, the past seemed to be more influencial. It's situations like this that cause one to be more sympathetic with the lovers of what once was. Just like in life, the chat started out with innocence; of course, the criteria spoken of wasn't so "innocent". However, this is what made it so entertaining. Most of it's amusment was run by Pawy, you could bring up anything with her and she'd have a reply. No matter how nasty, clean, or strange it was, she wouldn't leave anyones comments in the dust. Vulgarity was not a worry, people had fun and were able to be themselves. They didn't have to hide behind some clean and proper line, the floor was wide open. Yet there would be those to preach an unchartered version of the room, to tidy it's flavor. It wasn't quite this revolving that would dismiss the flair of what once was, for many situations would soon douse the flames.

Mayhaps it was this that would begin the wheel of disdain. No one really knows what turns the gear, for hatred can appear in the lightest of all situations. One thing Pawy should be recognized for, was her ability to speak the truth and relay the truth. It would be this one small device, that would erupt a larger battle. She wasn't afraid to speak her mind, and this was the cause that would reveal the secret of many faults. What it gave vision to, could be said to be quite disturbing: that the truth does hurt, and that speaking it can lead to more than just a demise. However, she was never in the red for letting out what she felt. She didn't beat around the bush, she made the stories point-blank and entirely clear. This also gave full knowledge as to the horrors behind the board, and as well to the behaviours of some of it's members. Things are not always sugar and spice on top; beneath they are made of blood and sweat. Pawy was the first one to break through a barrier, and make realism known. Yet, many rather remained blind to justification and went on with their daily plans.

It could have been the story of a zero to hero; she came and she went. But in that little timeline, she got her point taken. From some unbridled slew she came, with one thing in mind: To make her idea be noted. She saw how rancid things became, she wasn't afraid to admit wrongs in the world. Pawy challanged an entire board for it's crimes, and was unfairly slain. Just like any story goes, the people who make the largest impact are always torn to every shred. Perhaps society enjoys it's lies, it's slander, it's backstabbing; this board is society in and of itself. Yet Pawy would not remain in that motion, Pawy would not stand for what lied beneath. She brought it out, and she beat it; only to be beaten back. Was what she did wrong? No. Was the consequence expected? Maybe. For you see, in history not all bringers of justice are given the smiles of life. You can't fight the system that so many follow, you can't break it down. But she went at it alone, alone and powerful. I'd rather know Pawy than anyone else, for her bravery to take on something so large and impact it where it bleeds. Oh yes, everyone knows her, even if they grind their teeth. Let them to, let them be worried, because she's not afraid to make things right.

The highlights of the year? Simply stated, understanding what the Yoshi's Corner is and comprehending the behaviour of mankind. To succeed in the world, you must lie. To gain attention, you must break your back. To get anything, you must decieve, never relieve. Should these things be followed? Never. Not by any degree. It's the dumbed version of our race, of humanity. Yet it's what we follow, even here, even as we age. A once united Community falls apart, at the seams. When you start to fall out of it, perhaps you'll realize the loop it's strung in. Perhaps you'll spot everything between the lines. Not every sentence is as it says. This board, this year, all together have taught two important things. Nothing is ever as it seems, and all things change. From heaven to hell, the descent is clear. To imagine, a society so constructed on such an idol, to turn out these misproportions. It's not what you see, it's what goes on through the inside.

[vaporshi]

2006 was full of new experiences for me. I went to Otakon for the first time which ALSO doubled as my first time on an airplane and my first time in America. It was also my first time meeting my online friends... yeah, a lot of firsts!

I started my first real job.

I started my first year of university -- and living in residence.

I also turned 20... my first year as an adult.

I have a feeling 2007 won't be too bad --but not very exciting either. I think it'll be a "progress" year where I continue forward.

[Yosher]

My year of 2006 wasn't the best too, but overall it wasn't too bad.

I got to know a bunch of nice people, including Toshi, who got me to be a member here at Yoshi's Corner in the first place. Thanks again for that Toshi! Double-scoop ice cream I love this place.

I've also met a friend near where I live, somewhere at the beginning to halfway 2006.. can't really remember when exactly. But well, he's the first I met to like many things I like too, including games. He's almost as good as me in games like SSBM, so it could make some interesting matches. I never lost to him yet though, so.. yeah.

My birthday was mostly like any other- a few handshakes, congrats and presents, nothing special really. Any other holiday wasn't much special too, so I don't have much to say about that.

Other things? Well, I'm on my last school year, and my exams aren't too far away from now. Just 2 to 4 months away I think. My grades are mostly pretty high, so I'm not too worried about it right now. I still have to continue doing my best though, or things could go wrong.

I don't know much else to say, except for maybe I've completed quite a few games this year. Oh yeah, one thing I was happy about was Yoshi's Island DS to come out.. even though I've completed it in 2 days, just like New Super Mario Bros. XD I still have to get 100 on some levels and get some baby coins, so I guess it's not fully completed yet.
..Maybe I'm a bit too addicted to games? Meh, probably..

I don't know what 2007 has to offer me yet. I'm gonna get a Wii soon, and I'll get some games like SSB:Brawl, Mario Galaxy and probably some others too, I've already got Red Steel here. Games won't be a problem this year. The only thing I can think of that might go wrong are those exams, but I'm pretty confident about those. So yeah, my preview of 2007 doesn't look that bad. And like I said earlier, 2006 wasn't that bad too.

[Kimmorz]

2006 has been the best, at least the last few months has been.

• High school is surprisingly fun
  
• Made a bunch of new friends
  
• Brainwashed KA and now he's all mine.
  
• Almost finished my D.N.Angel collection ♥
  
• Met Vic Mignogna, voice actor for Edward from FMA, and got his autograph on my FMA manga~
  
• Got a lot of expensive anime stuff for Christmas~
  
• Got a dog, who's a total dork and pervert! =D
  

[Yoshifrog]

Best year ever for unknown reasons.
Normally with me the most recent year is the best one, so you won't expect much else.

I guess I like the most recent year because it's the year that I was just so recenty in (well, duh) and the fact is the memories I charish most are the ones close to me. I like new stuff :]

I guess I really can't explain it.
There's always a feeling like I'm constantly improving- like I'm better than I was before, but not the best. So as years go on I feel like last year I was immature or stupid, or something like that, and that this year I'm not.

But I'll think the same in 2008.
So it's inevitable :9