2021 Review

Uros Durdevic
18 min readJan 3, 2022

Yet another curve around the Sun.

January

This year started with lessons. I learned how to change a bike tire and cut an pineapple.

Also first time hiking.

I had a challenge with a friend for a workout. We took picture every Monday for 6 months.

Start

February

Stared with floods in Cologne.

Went back home.

Rented my first car. Škoda Superb

Yep I managed to scratch it a bit, but the guys were cool about it.

March

This is what we call “The married look”

I met some colleagues
First time poker online.
I met a new friend in a park

Some of the nice pictures I took.

April

Met with one of the coolest guys out there. Fabricio from UX Collective Editors

A trip to München

Easter

Some more nice pictures.

I cleaned a bit of the nature while biking.

May

The red Bully. Maybe one day.

Crash on a big TV.

Family call for Easter.

The line for the first Vaccine. Yep 2021.

I started trying out new coffee.

29th birthday.

Studying for a German test. Was quite a while since I studied like this.

Euroleague Final 4 was playing 5 minutes from my place.

A bonus was that while running I saw Jasikevičius. That was amazing!

More nice pictures.

My current plants and I planted some new ones for Bees in our garden.

Also a random pic from a bridge.

June

I was training with some guys who were training for Ninja Warriors.

And I took a run against my allergies. Just go hard 💪

Also saw a Zeppelin, in Germany, hah.

First Salsa class in the open. I later started taking classes regularly.

Also had some fun in the open with friends.

Another open salsa place.

I planted a Mango tree.

June, July, September
Visited a colleague, Torben. Yep, they love sheep in that house 🐑

Went first time to fix a MacBook. Felt a bit weird standing in that line tbh.

I got burned a bit while in the park. Another one summer picture.

July

Home again.

This time I worked remotely with some friends and we had a nice place in Belgrade.

My first open theatre.

Baby Sara says hi 👋

Went on top of a famous hotel in Belgrade, Hilton. Mladen’s friend was a DJ.

Mom and Dad came to say by.

I was supposed to get a second vaccine shot, but there was another flood in town and I couldn’t get it so I needed to improvise. Succeeded.

Lunar eclipse.

Another wonderful summer day.

First Brazilian restaurant. Was amazing 🤤

This guy having fun.

August

Ate these guys first time after 10 years or something.

Currant in English.

Went bouldering. I bouldered hard.

Went to a food festival. Yes that’s a chicken in cone.

Played Table Tennis, professionally 😎

Got a good Salsa shoes.

There was a small fare in town. The amount of people was staggering for that time.

Hung out with Roas and Otti in my garden.

One of the last pictures with a stash. 🥸

First real vacation in a long long time 🌊 🌴

Here’s a video recap I made. Worth watching. Crazy amount of good music 😎

This was a year I started learning how to Surf.

Some of the nice pictures I took.

New friends

On my flight back I met a friend, Marta. She’s a flight attendant, yes.

My cherry tomato gave some result.

I went home one more time for a friends party and my dad’s birthday.

A friend had a PhD party. She finished Space Law and obviously that was the theme as well.

More friends and some new ones. 👶

September

Getting real at Salsa.

Also took some classes from Benny.

Some say I look like Tony Robbins here
Yep, I played a bit with some Instagram filters.
My roommate gave my plant a bit more water then needed hah.

I randomly decided to see how long can I go without food.

I managed 5 days and lost around 3 kilos.

Ended up looking good tbh

Got a new shirt that reminded me of Witcher. There’s an idea for Halloween 🎃

Roas having fun.

Went first time Thrift shopping. Got a crazy good deal for Patagonia jacket.

A friend is playing with photography.

Daniel and Sabrinas wedding 💍

The best depiction.

Went to a climate change protest.

Bro trip #3 Haarlem + Amsterdam. Also met Kaca from my home town.

Eating KFC after years.

October

Another nice bike ride.

First indie concert in 2021.

Another nice bike ride. Yep I did a lot of selfie pictures this year.

A Moon picture.

I had a call with a guy from Reddit regarding motivation. That was cool.

Went for a beer and played some old-school games. It’s a cool bar!

The focus.

Metal concert that we waited in a line for 3 hours and eventually gave up but met some nice Chads in the line.

Halloween. Yep as a Witcher. 🐺

I went with a roommate for a basketball game.

November

Braces off. I was wearing them for more than a year now.

Indie concert #2

Roases party. This ended up as a really nice picture.

CheMondis conference. I did again a funny stunt.

11.11 Carnival

Me throughout the years

Last two are at the same time

Celebrating a permit. Yep, that’s macaroni on a a Pizza. Savage.

Random get-outs.

Ryan’s house party.

Düsseldorf workshop

Design bros.
Torben can draw.

December

Hoodie gang

Getting haircut.

Tried docs for the first time.

CheMondis Christmas party.

A lot of food that would end up wasted, but we saved most of it.

Got my new favourite shoes.

Met with Wollie after long time.

Spotify yearly wrap.

Had a great call with one Polish lady that verified my identity.

Some nice Christmas cards.

A really tough day. I try to keep those reviews true.

Office day and lunch with some colleagues.

I have a neighbour with a Tesla so I got a wild idea. I wrote him if he’d be cool to give me a ride at one point.

Some random piece of art I saw in the city.

Salsa crew on a Christmas market.

Sale time before and after Marmor-Cake.

I randomly ran a half marathon because it was a 9 degrees evening.

Christmas party with Christine and co. again 🥂

Yep, they braided my hair there for the fist time hah.

Because it’s crazy warm, poor trees are having flowers already 😔

Another bike ride before the years end.

31. of December with a lot of sweets and wait for it…

No picture before.

My neighbour replied and took me for a ride. Oliver, really cool guy!

Also amazing piece of a machine!

Model 3

And that’s a wrap folks.

Taking into account what a crazy year it was again, some things were still happening.

Hope you all had a good one and have an even better one next year. 🏄‍♀️

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