My new year blog message & 2021 in review

​Season Greetings

Today is final day of the old year 2021 as we will soon enter 2022. 

I hope everyone had enjoyed a wonderful Christmas and other holidays in the festive season. 

A year I published my first new year blog message in 2020

Here is my review in 2021. 

Very first blog post in this year 2021

As exactly I said in my January blog post that it will be better year and it turns out for me personally that this year 2021 is a better year despite uncertainty and the pandemic. Even I still not found work, at least 2021 has turned out to be a better year than last year 2020. 

Despite it has not been a great start of beginning of the year

There is many ways to go before the year is over and that we enter 2022 but I am thankful that I am alive and well to see that levels of normality is back (despite Covid 19 is still around which we will still have to look out since we are not out of the woods yet. Especially with the Omicron variant). But it doesn’t mean there won’t be tough winter with more recorded cases of Covid & the government’s mismanagement of the situation. 2021 will be remembered as the year of hope. Not just that but also the year of recovery after the effects of Covid. 😀🙂

What will 2022 bring? Only time will tell but I will say this. 2022 has to be much better than 2021 and 2020. Some of you will say that 2021 is just like last year 2020. Well every year comes and goes whether it is a good one or bad one or mixed one (good and bad). What goes around, comes around. 

My second New Year blog message

Enjoy this very final day of the year 2021 whatever you are doing today and tonight. Please stay safe and stay blessed. Try not to be in too crowded gatherings as I know it is a party holiday celebration season. 

Also get a covid 19 booster vaccine if you have not done it yet or get a covid 19 vaccine if you have not received both doses at all or you have received one dose but waiting to get a second dose. For me, I received my Covid 19 booster as my early Christmas present which I will talk more in my upcoming blog post. 

Let’s hope 2022 will mark the end of the covid pandemic (even we all know Covid 19 will be with us for very long time) so that won’t be anymore disruptions to our way of life & economic business activity worldwide in all nations. 

Also please if you are going to have New Year Resolutions two things, firstly don’t wait for January, you don’t have to so why wait until the new month (first month of the new month next year) and secondly be really realistic of what you really want to achieve. Other than trying to be all talk and achieve nothing once you get to easily forget later on & that the following month is February & beyond. New Year Resolutions can be unspecific so please plan carefully & be specific of what you do want to achieve in the upcoming year. That is my advice. 

So that is all I can say in my second New Year blog message. Happy New Year in advance to everybody and you guys my readers. See you on the other side in 2022. 🎊🎉🥳

Blogging in the digital age

​We are living in the digital age, the Information Age, the computer age, the new media age or the age of social media. 

Why I say this? According to my blogger friend of mine Roger Tichborne of the Barnet Eye (by the way, thanks for mentioning me on your blog Roger. Much appreciated), he stated on his blog post that there is “a lack of younger generation looking to setup” a blog except Mr Limitless (which is me Mr Limitless 95 as you know I have been a blogger for a year now). 

Well this is something I will talk about it in today’s blog post. You can read more on Roger’s blog post since his post is mainly about his reflection & his achievements as an blogger & being active in the community regarding local politics in Barnet. This is his blog 

So why aren’t today’s generations like my generation (Millennial) & younger generation (Generation Z) are mostly using social media platforms (the likes of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat & even TikTok) & not writing blogs? I will tell you why. 

As someone who was born in mid 90s (Millennial. Late millennial) & being friend to my blogger friend (Roger who was born in early 60s - Baby Boomer. Late baby boomer. In fact he is old enough to be my uncle), I say that every generation is different. It doesn’t matter which generation cohort are you part of. Whether is Greatest Generation, Silent Generation, Baby Boomer, Generation X, Millennial (often it is called Generation Y) or Generation Z or even Generation Alpha (first generation being born entirely in this century. 21st century who is expected to reach adulthood in the next decade 2030s). My point is that today’s generations (both Gen Y & Gen Z) are using social media platforms to be content creator, social media influencer (or social media personality), YouTuber or vlogger (video blogger) rather to do the things (past trends) what previous generations were doing. When I was born in 95, internet was already a new thing & that there were no smartphones. Just ordinary phones with buttons. If someone wants to use a computer, he/she would have to take turns to use a computer or going to the Internet cafe. 

Today, Internet cafe is old fashioned. No one goes there anymore as we all got smartphones, laptops and tablet computers. Internet cafe still exists, it is that nobody is mostly going there. 

So as an millennial blogger, it would be unfortunate that we would abandon things (some things are old) and go for the latest trends. It’s good that we have the internet and social networking sites & that everybody around the world can do anything online. Like writing a blog. 

Blog has been around since the existence of internet being available worldwide in the 1990s & to abandon it as if it does not exist other than just watching videos on YouTube or TikTok, well I say YouTube wasn’t around in the 90s until 2005 & Tik Tok wasn’t around until last few years in 2019. 

Although I do happen to have a YouTube account (where I upload my original music & that you can read my January blog post if you are interested), I don’t have accounts on Tik Tok or Snapchat & I am not quite interested. There is one thing that I used to have an account on MySpace who was popular social media site until 2011 & beyond which nobody like myself uses). 

I enjoy writing certain topics on my blog because it helps me to keep active & something that keeps me busy. At the end of the day, we have to use things that we have got. Otherwise, it becomes not existent. 

So if you really want to do blogging in the digital age whether is for fun (passion/hobby) or something that can turn into a job/career, then I would encourage you to start writing a blog today and choose a topic to write about & even having blogs as many as you like (one blog about one topic & another one about another topic). Soon, I will start to consider of having a second blog. When I do, you guys will be the first to know and I might think about doing a pen pal to make new friends in the world. Even writing pen pals letters is still the thing. Despite it is not much popular like it used to in the pre internet days. Especially nowadays it is online for pen pals. 

In conclusion. Everybody is different. Regardless of how old you are, writing a blog can be fun and it can be a blessing. I might think of writing a blog post with tips to write a perfect blog post on blog & having a great blogging technique. 

So yeah. Let’s all use things that we have got before it is not existent anymore and one of them is blogging. 😀🙂✍️✏️📧🖥💻📱

 

Don’t wait until January for New Year Resolutions

​In February this year 2021, I talked about New Year’s Resolutions & whether you have achieved it or not

Well as we are about to enter the New Year 2022, I want to say to you to my readers. Don’t wait until January for New Year’s Resolutions. 

I said in my February blog post with my advice that you cannot have new year resolutions that are unrealistic, undesirable, unspecific and un-achievable & being all talk without taking action that can produce results. You can have goals (specific goals) without having to wait until January to reach the target that you want to achieve in life in general. 

For me although I have own my stuff, I do not need New Year’s Resolutions to achieve the goal that I want to achieve in life. I would plan something to achieve a specific goal that could be achieved in the long term (regardless if it is days, weeks, months or years). Not to include something that can be done yearly and then easily forget in the following month (February) and after. 

So if you want to have a new year resolutions (goals for the New Year), then that is fine and I do not have a problem but please be clear and specific of what you really want to achieve not just for the new year but for life in the long term. That is all I can say about New Year Resolutions.

When Boxing Day is the day of hunting foxes

​When people think of the date on 26th December (Boxing Day, St’s Stephen Day or Day of Goodwill), it is the day after Christmas (Christmas Day) and it is often marked as second day of Christmas (12 days of Christmas as in Christmas Carol 12 Days of Christmas) or even second Christmas Day.

It is the day when post Christmas sales started to be on the sale for discounts in retail online and offline. Unfortunately it is also the day where some people will go to countryside (rural areas) in the UK to hunt foxes. 🦊 Foxing Day.

Every year annually on Boxing Day, foxes gets hunted & the Hunting Act 2004 is not even tightened enough to put a stop of all barbaric cruelty of fox hunting including trail hunting. Why? Because there is a loophole that carries on the so called “hunt free fox hunting”. 

I am so sick & tired of innocent foxes being hunted every year annually on Boxing Day (26th December. The day after Christmas) by the fox hunters. The fox hunters that they ride on the horses & bringing dogs (hound dogs that are big) with them. Everybody agrees that it is cruel and barbaric & that it is indeed a bloodsport. Killing animals all in the name of having fun is not joy. It is Animal Cruelty and there is nothing entertaining about that. It is not even a laughing matter. 

I have long opposed fox hunting and this is something that Conservatives wanted to do. Bringing back fox hunting & repealing the Hunting Act 2004. There were plans by then PM David Cameron to bring a vote to the House of Commons in 2015 but that didn’t happened given which Cameron himself is for repealing a ban on fox hunting 

So Unbelievable that he supported the “bloodsport” meaning fox hunting whilst being interviewed by Andrew Marr in 2015. Even 70 Conservative MPs say that they are against repealing a ban on fox hunting

Then there were plans & ludicrous idea by then PM Theresa May to called a free vote on the motion of bringing fox hunting and that she is in favour of fox hunting which had played a role in 2017 general election campaign and it had resulted for Mrs May to lose overall majority in the House of Commons. All because of her ludicrous policy ideas (dementia tax & restoring fox hunting). Not so strong and stable after all & that she abandoned a promise to call a free vote of restoring fox hunting 

And then, currently we have the current prime minister (Boris Johnson) who openly supports fox hunting and who is married to the wife who is an animal lover & opposes every form of animal cruelty including fox hunting. Even the controversial Nigel Farage supports fox hunting too

My point is that any politician who is on the right (Conservative or non Conservative) who supports fox hunting is not an animal lover and if anyone does participate in hunting foxes in any day including Boxing Day (26th December. The day after Christmas), he or she does not deserve to be called “animal lover” in the name of killing innocent animal who would often roam the streets & the wood as foxes are urban animals. Yes, they make weird noises and that they would eat chickens but it does not justify hunting them. 

What is the real purpose of hunting foxes who does not do any harms to humans? None. There is zero benefit to fox hunting. It is all brutality and cruelty. This is something those who supports fox hunting does not seeming to fully understand. It is against animal rights.

Those red orange creatures poses no threat to us humans and yet, we ourselves are killing them for nothing in the name of “having fun & pressure”. Those who hunt foxes should be prosecuted & even not being allowed to have a pet.  

When Boxing Day is the day of hunting foxes. It’s time that there should be a ban on annual fox hunting on Boxing Day completely. I don’t get why Fox Hunting is still the thing despite the law outlaws it.

It is very disgusting act & I really hope and pray that one day the cruel act of fox hunting on days like Boxing Day will be the thing of the past. 

Lastly, here is my friend’s blog. 

My blogger friend Roger and his 2017 blog post about his opinion on foxing hunting. 

My blogger friend Roger and his 2017 blog post about his opinion on foxing hunting 

And if you are strongly against fox hunting and other forms of animal cruelty & bloodsport, you can visit the Keep the Ban website for more information by clicking the link and signing petition against fox hunting. https://www.keeptheban.uk/petition 

My blog Christmas message 2021

​Season Greetings

A year ago, I talked about Christmas being celebrated as holiday season and peace of mind 

One year on and it is still true. Christmas is the holiday season and peace of mind. Festive holiday where you listen to Christmas music, watching Christmas films, having Christmas dinner and opening your Christmas presents. 

Christmas is the relaxing holiday that you can have a peace of mind and having a reflection of what you have done for this year and hoping for the best in the upcoming year. 

For me, 2021 has been a better year but every year has it owns ups and downs & that there is still some things that I would had done this year and that I would hope for the new year 2022. 

So this is a second blog message that I talked about Christmas. I want to wish you my readers  a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. 

Best wishes for 2022 and beyond. 

Happy Holidays to everybody. 🎁🎅🎄🌲

There is no “War on Christmas”

​Since we are busy celebrating Christmas in the festive season, there is one thing I would want to talk about it. It is something that is completely madness in the United States of America. 

The War on Christmas. 🤦🇺🇸

Now why I say this is because there is nonsensical debate about the so called “war on Christmas” (which is non existent) & that American Conservatives couldn’t stop banging on about something that is so non existent & that they made it up just to divide everyone in USA by simply complaining that someone say “Happy Holidays” & not “Merry Christmas”. I say this shouldn’t really be a big deal. 

There is one thing that the Republicans (& Fox News) in America does every year annually is the non existent “war on Christmas”. As if they have issues with people who say “Happy Holidays” but not “Merry Christmas”. No one have stopped saying “Merry Christmas”. So yeah, absolutely bonkers. Also recently Donald Trump (former US President) claimed that he won the so called “war in Christmas”. Thanks goodness we don’t hear anyone complaining here in the UK that person stopped saying “Merry Christmas”. 

It’s time that Conservatives & Republicans in America to realise there is no “war on Christmas”. No one have stopped saying “Merry Christmas”. Barack Obama had said “Merry Christmas” when he was the President. I am not bothered if someone say “Happy Holidays or Season Greetings”. Whether person celebrate Christmas or not. 

It is ridiculous to suggest that anybody in America have all sudden stop saying “Merry Christmas” & then being not happy if someone have not said “Merry Christmas”. Well US Conservatives should know that not all people celebrate Christmas & not all of them are Christians. 

Kwanzza, Hanukkah & other religious holidays are celebrated this month December. Given different faiths do see Christmas as a family holiday. 

I really do not get why some folks in America are following the lies of Fox News & even Trump. No wonder Bill O’Reilly who used to be on Fox News was the one who created the unnecessary term “war on Christmas”. 

Lastly, my advice to you people (mainly those who live in America & even outside America) is pay less attention to any media pundit or politician who do talks rubbish about the non existent “war on Christmas” because they do not value your time when you (US viewers who would often watch Conservative media outlets like Fox News) watch their shows. In other words, don’t believe the hype about things that does not really exist. 

Last thing everyone needs in the festive season is political correctness, cancel culture & ignorant person being woke & snowflake & cannot be willing to accept that there the person (him or her) can say other ways than only saying “Merry Christmas”. In my point of view, it is nothing but a classic GOP woke & cancel culture.

So that is I can say about the nonsensical & non existent rubbish stuff (the so called “war on Christmas”). 

After all, there is no “war on Christmas”. 🎄🎅🎁

So enjoy the festive season everyone. 

Sources: 

https://youtu.be/Y2Gp1N2txg4 

https://youtu.be/4e5Zts1jTGw 

https://youtu.be/Qm8P-YqGUpA

https://youtu.be/DPUywhcYLV4

My Christmas song playlist

​Everybody

Are you ready for Christmas? So do I. 🌲🎄🎅Ho Ho Ho

Consider this as your early Christmas present because I have selected 12 Christmas songs as this year’s Christmas song playlist. I am open to any requests like I had done for summer song playlist and Halloween song playlist on my previous blog posts. Songs of Summer & Halloween spooky tunes

For me personally, I think I’ll stick with 12 songs of Christmas. 😀🙂🎄🎅

Christmas music is the time of the year where we first hear in November and that we human beings would continue listen all the way to the Christmas season. Christmas is really indeed the most wonderful time of the year. 

So without further ado, here are the 12 festive songs as my Christmas song playlist. Especially that it is hard to choose one of them. 





1. Brenda Lee - Rockin around the Christmas tree

We start with this classic festive 50s rockabilly tune by Brenda Lee. Who is rocking around the Christmas tree in this festive season? Go and listen to the tune in case if you have not heard it before. Also there are cover versions of the song “Rockin around the Christmas tree”. Click the link to listen to it


2. John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over) 

This Christmas song is not just a ordinary Christmas tune. It is also a anti war song. Protest song against the Vietnam War. Released in 1971 (50 years ago), it is one of my favourite Christmas song that I do enjoy listening to it in the holidays. 

Another year over & new one just begun The link is right there as I am quoting the lyrics. 

3. Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas 

Since Christmas can be a wonderful and lovely season. Christmas can be not so great. That would indicate that someone is not having a good Christmas (meaning blue Christmas). Well I know I will not feel blue this Christmas time but I cannot help it as i do enjoy listening to the song. 
Blue Christmas by Elvis Presley

4. Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock 

The original version of the song “Jingle Bell Rock” by Bobby Helms. Another 50s rockabilly song. There are other cover versions of the song including Hall & Oates. Here is the original version of Jingle Bell Rock

5. Michael Buble - Santa Claus is Comin To Town 

There are plenty of recorded versions of the song “Santa Claus is Comin to Town” by over 200 artists. Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, The Crystals, Neil Diamond, Bruce Springsteen, Mariah Carey, the Temptations, the Jackson 5, etc.

So I chose the version of the song by Michael Buble Santa Claus is really coming to town as he have checked the list twice of who is nice & naughty this year. Anyway, enjoy the song as we move on to another list of my Christmas song playlist. 

6. Wizard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 

70s glam rock song about wishing that everyday could be Christmas. I say I agree & that I do also wish that it could be Christmas everyday 🎶🎵🎄🌲🎸

7. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody 

Another 70s glam rock song. “So here is it Merry Christmas. Everybody’s having fun. Look to the future now. It’s only just begun”. One of the best Christmas song ever. Even it is just only well known here in the UK. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody 

8. The Killers - Don’t Shoot Me Santa

The Killers (rock band) have so many Christmas songs so I have selected one of their own song & that is the song “Don’t Shoot Me Santa”. It’s a good song & great music video. Check this out

9. Run-DMC - Christmas in Hollis

This one is very interesting one as this particular Christmas song is Hip Hop that features rapping. Who’s say that Christmas song cannot be Hip Hop? Whether is pop tune, rock tune or rap song, it can be festive song. So in this list, I added Run-DMC song Christmas in Hollis

10. Tony Bennett - Winter Wonderland 

Christmas is indeed a winter wonderland. I think we can all agree & it is true. So for that, here is Winter Wonderland by Tony Bennett

11. Wham - Last Christmas 
Last Christmas I gave you my heart Anyways we obviously know the lyrics already as it is easy to sing along. George Michael in his 80s heyday in Wham. This is one of awesome George Michael songs especially during his time in Wham with the music video. 

12. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You 

Now this is where we conclude my Christmas song playlist and I thought I can finish off the list by including one of the classic Christmas tunes & that is Mariah Carey. All I Want For Christmas Is You

The only I want for Christmas is Christmas songs & films. Christmas films. 

So that is the end of my Christmas song playlist. Happy Holidays Everyone & have a wonderful Christmas & New Year. 😀🙂🎄🎁🎶🎵