2011-10-25 02:50 UTC
I have been listening to one particular track lately that was featured in Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance Year Mix 2009, a nice melodic trance track called 'Beggin' You (Armin van Buuren Remix)' by Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren. I am certainly a big victim of repeating songs way too much. I really like this song, and other melodic vocal trance songs like it. Apparently I'm not alone, as it made 3rd place in a top-20 best trance songs featured on Armin van Buuren's regular weekly radio show A State of Trance in 2009.
A bit about myself. I'm born on 1985 September 17 (Tuesday) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. I speak only English, prefer the metric system but use some Imperial units as well. I'm blind in my right eye and am near-sighted in the other. I have Asperger Syndrome, diagnosed in 2007 December.
I prefer writing the date in year-month-day order when doing it in numerals to prevent ambiguity as far as what each number is. I switch up at times depending on my mood when I write the date out in words. Sometimes I do day-month-year, like 25th November 2011. I pronounce years since 2000 like any other number. I say the current year as 'two thousand and eleven'. For the time-being, I even say years past 2099 in this way. I believe this is the way we English speakers should have been pronouncing them all along, like the Japanese do (from what I heard) but I understand that numbers that take many words to say are much easier to say in an abbreviated form, so I say 'nineteen ninety-nine' for 1999. Besides logic, I think another reason for me not switching to the shorter way of speaking years after 2009 has to do with disappointment when real life doesn't turn out the way some science fiction films project the not-very-distant future. Back to the Future comes to mind when they chose the year 2015, which is now only a few years away. I think they chose a way too soon year to set the future portion of the story in. I understand that it's only a movie, but wouldn't it be nice to at least have a chance for it to be believable? I hope there is at least one other person out there with at least a similar opinion. But then again, maybe not. I bet at some point, I will be told to just Get over it. Oh well...
I enjoy travelling but haven't been to a whole lot of places yet. In the US, I have been to Atlantic City, Wildwood, and Cape May, New Jersey; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Virginia Beach, Virginia; Wilmington, Delaware; 3 boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens) of New York City and Westbury (on Long Island), New York; New Haven, Connecticut; Boston, Massachusetts; Bangor, Maine; and Penn State, Lancaster, New Hope, and Doylestown in my own state. In Canada, I have been to Montreal and Quebec City, Quebec; as well as Saint John, New Brunswick. Next year, I hope to visit The Netherlands, specifically Amsterdam and seeing a friend in The Hague. I have started looking into plane ticket pricing but as we all know, the prices can be all over the place.
I'll add more if I can think of more to stick here. To the veterans: let me know if some of this content would be better off in separate nodes.