My goodness, has it been one year already? I guess so, because that shiny Vahi is telling me so.

Let's see, when I first became a member I (of course) did some pretty newb-ish things that I wish I could take back. But I posted my first MOC, which was a customazation of Voporak, and I was very proud of that MOC, I thought I could never top that...little did I know.

After dicovering Brickshelf I was amazed at the MOCs I saw, and they made me want to MOC so very much more that I ripped apart my two favorite sets at the time; Roodaka and Sidorak. In no time I had made a MOC out of those two sets and looking back at it now it was very horrible, but back then I thought it was the greatest.

Then I did some minor MOCing including an all gray Rahkshi and a couple Dark Hunter, of which I was very fond of at the time and is the reason I started out being DarkHunterSZ.

But then BBC #37 came around and I entered my Ninjo: The Four-Legged Dark Hunter, sure it didn't really fit the theme one bit, but it was my first step to becoming a real MOCist. It lost in the prelims, but I still got a fair amount of votes, which made me very happy. Hey, even now I look back at my Ninjo and think that it was a solid MOC.

Around this time is when I met my best friend Turakii #1 Lavasurfer. Boy, she has been awesome. She has been the greatest of friends to me, she always makes me laugh, but yet she can be serious in a flash. No she is not my girlfriend, just a friend who happens to be a girl. I say, if I were to have met her in the way she met me I don't think I would've stayed in thouch with her, but no, she has always been so kind and such an amazing friend. I can't thank you enough, Turakii.

I didn't enter BBC #38 or #39 because I was not an experienced enough MOCist and could not make a MOC to fit either theme. But in the mean time I was doing my PBZP, and boy, was it gaining popularity (not as much as Mikey's, no, but it was popular to me).

About this time (I think) I started writing short stories. I entered the Short Story contest, but didn't do anything in it. After that I wrote a couple other stories that were okay, but not that great. The last two that I wrote were extremely depressing and I wondered if anyone would even post in them. Sometime I wonder if the person reading these stories think I'm a girl, since my two main characters in both the my stories have been girls.

Then, about the time I finished my PBZP, I entered BBC #40 with my HyperMecha MOC. It was my first BBC entry to make it to the semi-finals. It lost, yes, but it, like my Ninjo, made me very happy. I felt like I could make anything.

I finished my PBZP quietly, or so it seemed because hardly anyone posted in the topic. My PBZP, as I look at it now wasn't all that great and I wish I had the time to re-MOC all of them but a few.

BBC #41 came around and I made one of my best creations yet, my sandwhich entry Vahki Supreme: The Annihilator. I thought for sure it would do well, since I thought it was so good, but no, it didn't do that well at all. But I think all that did was make me want to make better and better MOCs.

BBC #42 came along and I made it to the semi-finals, but now it looks as though I may not make it any further. But that's okay, I pretty sure I can live through it.

And now, finally, I have gotten my one-year-Vahi. And all I can say is this: THANK YOU BZPOWER FOR ONE AWESOME YEAR!

-SZ-