The year 2012? Wow! What a year this had been but I am doing a blog reflecting the highlights of MMXII.
This year kicked off with a bang when career criminal and the founder of Megaupload, Kim 'Dotcom' Schmitz got arrested by on the 20th of January (In which armed officers raided from a chopper to make an arrest on Dotcom & 4 other people at Dotcom's mansion as well as seizing a worth of $17,000,000 assets including eighteen luxury cars, giant screen Televisions and works of art, but err...they think that the raid (or spy) was illegal since the rule carried out by the Government Communications Security Bureau that they are not allowed to spy on Kiwi citizens when he had been granted permanent residency), charged with suspected copyright infringement in relation to his Megaupload website, which had to be shut down by the hands of the United States Department of Justice. And I mean why, why has the Prime Minister (PM, The right honourable) John Phillip Key talk about Kim Dotcom all the time, including saying sorry to him and to us Kiwis because every Kiwi...is entitled to be protected from the law when it comes to the GCSB and we failed to provide that appropriate protection for him).
On Waitangi day over in Britain marked Her Majesty the Queen's diamond jubilee, celebrating 60 years of her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth.
And then on to your sports desk, Steve Hansen already became a new coach of the reigning world champion All Blacks (Also the current holders of the Bledisloe), guiding them to 12 victories (Against the likes of Ireland (3x), Australia (2x), South Africa (2x), Argentina (2x), Scotland, Italy & Wales), a draw against Australia & a loss against England + 1 Rugby Championship title. And then, onto Euro 2012 football was held in Poland/Ukraine, with Spain the dominant force of both World & European football, pouncing Italy (Whom they both met in a group stage, ending in a 1 - 1 draw before both teams have never met again until the final) in the final 4 - 0 in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, to successfully defend the European Championship (Since winning the previous tournament in 2008), 2 years after becoming the 8th nation to win the FIFA World Cup by beating Holland in the final 1 - 0 during extra time in Jo'burg, South Africa. And after Euro 2012 was the Summer Olympic Games in London, England, United Kingdom where New Zealand had a successful Olympic campaign since Seoul, South Korea 1988, with 5 gold medals (now 6 including Adams since the disqualification of Ostapchuk) won by the likes of Cohen/Sullivan, Bond/Murray, Drysdale, Aleh/Powrie (Team Jolly) & of course, Carrington + 3 silvers (now 2) & 5 bronzes.
And finally, the South Korean pop sensation PSY had released a new song, dubbed as Gangnam Style in August (A few weeks after the Olympics had ended on a high note) when the music video of it (Featuring all new dance moves that I am good at when tuning to that song, such as the horse trot & the lasso spinner), went viral by influencing popular culture since then before the video was a success, surpasssing over 983,000,000 times on YouTube as well as the most watched video in history but it even went to numero uno in the music charts in like, over 20 countries worldwide but err...when I 1st listened to that Gangnam Style (Well, I never heard that before when PSY appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show with the host Ellen & guest Britney Spears, teaching those new dance move inventions/creations), I quite liked it from scratch along with John & Lim, who are passionate about that Korean pop (Or K-Pop) music + Nek Minnit (2 months after the Gangnam Style single came out), there are news about Felix Baumgartner of Austria, the BASE Jumping/Skydiving Daredevil enthusiast, did manage to jump throughout the edge of space by breaking the sound barrier on his descent as well as the total jump, from leaving the capsule to landing on the ground, lasted approximately ten minutes as part of a space diving project dubbed as Red Bull Stratos (And Baumgartner wore a helium balloon before free falling in a pressure suit and then parachuting to Earth by flying at approximately 39 km into the stratosphere over New Mexico, United States).
It has been an incredible MMXII for me (Having my 21st birthday as well as establishing pasta week + going to Wellington twice this year like in 2010 & enjoyed by watching the Avengers movie) so I would be having our christmas wish and to keep our safety for the new year which is 2013 (MMXIII).
P.S. The year 2012 was terrible especially the mother-daughter duo of Sally & Jamie Ridge having their own reality TV show labelled as da worst along with the GC which is also a reality TV show consisting of Maori Australians (AKA da Mozzies) featuring the likes of Tame & the ridiculously hot Rosanna 'Rosie' Arkle + Sebastian Vettel of Germany becomes triple World Champion of Formula 1 after finishing 6th in Brazil (Which is the final round of the 2012 F1 calendar) with championship runner-up & double F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso (Driving for Ferrari) finished 2nd behind the winner of that last race, Jenson Button (2009 World Champion). But the main talking point of the F1 season was seeing the funny side of Kimi Raikkonen (Who placed 3rd in his comeback season + F1 World Champion of 2007) in Abu Dhabi and I'll tell you guys the story about Raikkonen's unexpected but messy situation:
DURING LAP 22 (Polesitter Lewis Hamilton (2008 World Champion) retires on Lap 19)
Kimi's Engineer (Presumably Simon Rennie): Okay Kimi, next guy behind you is Alonso, Alonso five seconds behind you...I'll keep you updated on the gap. I'll keep you updated on the pace.
Kimi: JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!! I KNOW WHAT I AM DOING!!!
AND ON LAP 41
Simon Rennie: OK, Kimi, we need to keep working all 4 tyres, please. Keep working all four...
Kimi: Yes, yes, yes, yes! I am doing all the tyres! You do not have to remind every second!
Simon Rennie: OK
And so there it goes, moments before Kimi Raikkonen had to win the Abu Dhabi GP by collecting his 1st win in just his comeback season in F1 (He drives for Lotus by guiding them to their 1st win) after a 2 year absence by competing in both the World Rally Championship & NASCAR.
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