Come to think…what was I thinking?

Sometimes I wonder what on earth was I thinking when I’d whipped out the database hosting my old blog. As far as I can remember, there was someone who offered me to transfer it to the new webspace, but I had dial-up at home, I probably thought I’m never going to regret it, it was March 2006 aka Iva’s month of panic for almost no reason (let’s skip that story as it’s even offensive considering what holiday is coming up for my western Christiain friends!) and I was fed up with my mood swings in 2004 and 2005; especially May 2005 when the good things and bad things were rotating as if two different people were blogging.

Now I’m looking those old entries up. And I am going to recover them, oh yes I will. I even want to write a story on what supersonicsquirrel.net was like, how many people I was hosting. I think I had more than 30 hostees overall. God, I had so much free time, today I wouldn’t be able to handle it! Back then it was like a freakin’ train station and some of them never even managed to actually finish their websites and put them online, some others disappeared without a trace, a couple were not even responding to my emails about still being alive.

Before I do all of that and much more, I have found the oldest entry [minus the test one], written in November 2002. Back then, there was a meme called What if…, founded by some German girl whose name I do not even remember. And I actually made a public blog solely to present my answers to that one. The girl was posting a different question from a book she read once a week and then she was looking up people’s answers. Below the cut you’ll find my answers and the dates I replied. In my next post, I will try to reply all of these questions, five years later and it will be funny to compare them and see how much I’d changed, even though the base of me, the core is still the same.

It was NOT long ago, but the way this world is speeding up, it needs a ticket and we all need to stop and smell the roses.

It was 2002. Many things were heading towards a beautiful happy ending, solely to crash like Titanic soon after. Queen mom died, Maria Naumova won the ESC, mobile phones rarely had colour screens, iPods were resembling small tanks, Brazil won the world cup, central Europe was affected by the biggest floods in the recent times and Switzerland joined United Nations.

I was nineteen years old. I had no major goals in life other than finishing university (not knowing I’ll remain stuck in the class year I entered at that time) and publishing something, someday, not even knowing what and when. Today I have so many goals that I could easily beat Juste Fontaine’s record on the 1958 world cup.

And, before you get scared of it: read the paragraphs above again and again and one more time.

17.11.2002
If you could decide what will be written on your
gravestone, what would you have inscribed?
“I have actually never been here.”

10.11.2002
If you could live the life of any fictional character,
which character would it be?
Guess I am out of inspiration.

3.11.2002
If you commit one crime without being caught,
what crime would you commit?
Rats. This is the only entry I have lost during moving….hope someone remembers the answer O_O

20.10.2002
If you could have paint your portrait by any painter
in history, to whom would you give the comission?
Leonardo Da Vinci! Without any doubt, he was a genious! But I’d also appreciate Giotto and Dragan Malešević, my favorite living painter. [edited: He died 7 days after I said that:( ]

13.10.2002.
If you had to sleep with two famous people
simutaneously, who would you choose?
I don’t have a wish to sleep with two people at the same time, thanks

6.10.2002
If your home were to be totally destroyed by fire but
you could save just one thing, what would it be?
My paper diary. I can’t do without it.

15.9.2002
If you had to select the most beautiful face in
history, whose face would you pick?
Guess it was..um…no…this time I really don’t know.

8.9.2002
If you could sing one song beautifully and
perfectly, which one would you pick?
Probably “This Used To Be My Playground” by Madonna, because I feel like that now and I need that song.

1.9.2002
If you were to be given an acting role in a
current tv show, who would you want to play?
Sabrina, the teenage witch!

11.8.2002
If you could have a romance with any fictional character,
who would it be?
Well, that would have to be….gosh. I can’t say. You’ll consider me nuts.

5.8.2002.
If you could make a film from any book never produced
as a film, what book would you pick?
Guess it would have to be “Northwestern From Southeast”, the book I’ currently writing.

28.7.2002
If you could star in a love scene with any living actor, who
would you want to act with, and where would you want it filmed?
I would not like to.

22.7.2002
If you could have chosen your own first name,
other than your current one, what would it be?
Definitelly Veronika. That’s a perfect name and I even named my book character that. But Sara ain’t bad either.

8.7.2002.
If you had to go tonight to be tattooed, where on your body
would you have it done and what image would you select?
I don’t like tattoos.

1.7.2002
If you could choose the music at your own funeral,
what would it be, and who would play it?
“Strange Currencies” - REM

24.6.2002.
If you could own one painting from any collection
in the world but were not allowed to sell it,
which work of art would you select?

Claude Monet “Water Lillies”

17.6.2002
If you could have the answer to any question,
what would you ask?

Is it possible to turn back the time?

10.6.2002
If you had to change citizenship, which country
would you want to become a citizen of?
Italy, Hungary or Austria…beautiful places with kind and normal people, nice landscapes, culture and good food.

3.6.2002.
If you could permanently alter one thing about your
physical appearance, what would you change?

I’d remove that small mark next to my chin, because I hate it!

27.5.2002.
If you had to cast living actors to play each of the people
with you right now {and yourself of course} in a new film,
who would you choose to play each person?

I would be played by Christinna Ricci, my mom wouls be played by Brigitte Bardot (she was her idol back in the days) and my dad would be played by…some western dude…I guess.

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