Auf Wiedersehen, 2006.

With only less than 5 days left for the year 2006, I shall dedicate this post to the Best of 2006 as a swansong, before we usher in the year of 2007, of which I will be facing the Apocalyptic (or Anally-Annoying) A Levels. 2006 has been a good and bad year for me, good because 06/06/06 is in the year 2006, bad due to me being stuck in a class filled with narrow minded buffoons.

Now, as you, my audience, shout from the seats, demanding the prompt announcement of the BillBoard 2006! [drumroll please!]

It's extremely biased, so people of the faint-hearted, you might want to shun away from this dreary post.

Firstly, as a self-proclaimed professional metal-listener such as yours truly, I shall give you my opinion of what is good in the 2006 in terms of metal and all its paraphernalia. Or, simply, what I have been hopelessly addicted to.

Top 10 Bands of 2006:

1. Rammstein
2. I
3. Cradle of Filth
4. Dissection
5. Falkenbach
6. Marilyn Manson
7. Burzum
   
8. Bal-Sagoth
9. Chthonic
10. Opeth

Top 5 Albums of 2006:

1. Between Two Worlds – I
2. Thornography – Cradle of Filth
3. Reinkaos – Dissection
4. Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri... – Falkenbach
5. Seediq Bale – Chthonic

Top 10 Songs of 2006:

1. Starless Aeon – Dissection
2. Far Beyond The Quiet - I
3. Tortured Soul Asylum – Cradle of Filth
4. Heathenish Forary – Falkenbach
5. Broderskapets Ring – Dimmu Borgir
6. Pathless Path to Unknownable Knowable – Rudra
7. Quasi Putrefaction – Chthonic
8. Thorns of Crimson Death – Dissection
9. The Splendour of A Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath The Blazon of The Hyperborean Empire - Bal-Sagoth
   
10. Norvegr - Enslaved

Best Vocalist 2006: Jon Novtidet – Dissection (Your legend will live for eternity.)

Best Guitarist 2006: Ice Dale – I/Enslaved

Best Bassist 2006: Johan De Faralla – Opeth

Best Drummer 2006: Frost – Satyricon

Best Metal Event: The formation of "I" - Black Metal Killer Line Up.

Best Metal Discovery: Xasthur/Nortt. [Deep concept these one-man bands present]

Metal Tragedy 2006: Suicide of Dissection's frontman, Jon Notvidet.

Best Metal Experience 2006: Meeting Norwegian Black Metal Legends, Mayhem and hanging out with them for 2 hours.

Secondly, being an addict for flourishing like myself...

Top Flourisher: Daren Yeow (no doubt)

Top Flourish that I loved: Tornado cut, cause I'm damn freaking good at it! =D

Most-done flourish: Molecule 1 plus Kryptonite

Favourite Flourish Video: Short and Sweet by Daren Yeow

Best Flourish Experience: My Tornado Cut footage being selected and converted into a cellphone commercial that airs nationally in USA and Canada.

Best Deck 2006: New Studs

Now, the miscellaneous details.

Best Food 2006: The Undisputed Champion – Subway Eat Fresh

Best Drink 2006: Hot Tea

Best Hang-out 2006: Magic Hall

Best online thing 2006: All the MSN mass conversations initiated by Jaspas, that spans internationally to places like Sweden and USA! =D

Best TV show I have watched 2006: Viva La Bam!

Best TV Personality: Don Vito, ya jerkoffs!

Top 10 Movies I have watched in 2006:

1. Fight Club
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Die Grosse Stille
4. 1984
5. V For Vendetta
6. Lost Highway
7. Nosferatu
8. Dracula (1931)
9. Curse of The Golden Flower
10. Hard Candy

Best Book I have read 2006: Hero's Torch - Steven Fernier Lee XIX or Choke – Chuck Palanahiuk.

Best Author in my humble opinion, 2006: Chuck Palanahiuk.

Best Director 2006: Philip Goening - Die Grosse Stille.

Best Actor 2006: Johnny Depp

Best Actress 2006: Gong Li

Best discovery 2006: Into the realm of Philosophy and Political Science. Wondrous stuff.

New Addiction(s) 2006: James Bond! Boy Singers - Billy Gilman/Declan Galbraith/Jean-Baptiste Maunier! [thanks rh!]

Most done activity 2006: Flourishing and being an nihilist.

Worst accusation 2006: Being a pedo cause I listen to boy singers. Burr.

I guess many of you will be bored stiff by this point of time. Ok, I'm stopping. =)

Here we usher in the year of 2007! [crosses fingers] Meanwhile, I'm taking this time to thanks my friends, namely, Jaspas, Ren Hui, Nick (more commonly known as Mephistopheles), Vika (although you appeared late), Valerie, Jonas (from Sweden), Erik (Swede as well), Huron, Kevin (new-found movie buff friend plus flourisher), Alden, Mr Neo, Mark, Jimmy, Jaro, Arthur (Artwo), Fariza, and XinYi for all of your efforts in lending me a much-needed listening ear and helping me to remain sane in such an absurdly insane year like this, and most of all, thanks for inserting those very much needed laughs in my life. I really thank all of you. Without you, I might have just 'snuffed it'.

Yours faithfully,
LingNemesis
In the wee-days of 2006, awaiting Armageddon to manifest.

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