happy new year!

It's nearly the end of what they've said is the coldest December on the books, it's like winter forgot to go and is currently running business as usual under the guise of summer. New Year's Eve is either a time to party or a time for quiet reflection - and quite simply because I am at home and I'm the only person in the house that is physically awake, it seemeth to me like a time for the latter. Also because, apart from that, all I'm doing is typing out GI tract notes as gleaned from Saladin. YES, sad I know, but don't worry, I'm not becoming Flick (I do love you, Flick). It's just that I have no books to read and dad took up the internet. And I was going to do those notes anyway, just to save my ass for next semester. I am under no circumstances going to go through a repeat of last semester.

2005 has gone past in a blistering flash, I think that I blinked and totally missed it. They say that as one gets older time goes faster, but if that's the case then SHIT when I'm 30 I'll hit the Big 4 'O in 10 seconds. But anyway. If it wasn't for all the experiences I've had, complete with Kodak embarassing moments and classic incidents (for example, I'm thinking of oranges ;)), I'd thought that I went to sleep Jan 2005 only to wake up Jan 2006. I'd like to think I've grown wiser and learnt more of what it means to be a glorious human being. I've met friends that have changed my life- and whether it be for the better or for worse, I no longer care. It makes me what I am now.

I've learnt that a HD is not everything and that friends that stand by you mean the world. I've figured that knowing is better than silence, and that maybe even the biggest failure is better than having never tried. I've thought that maybe life isn't perfect and was never meant to be; maybe it's the imperfections of life are what makes it worth living. I've learnt that maybe one can't find God in a church, maybe one as to seek in order to find. I've known what it means to be loved, and also how it hurts to hurt. I've learnt that the fairy-tale relationship doesn't exist, and that every relationship needs to be worked at. I've discovered that uni life is not as glamourous as I once dreamed it to be- and that hard work can never be replaced, not even by 4-hours-of-sleep-a-day kind of panic. I've been very firmly told that I should think before I speak or act.

The New Year is also a time for resolutions - and one traditionally breaks them all by March-ish. I'm thinking of a couple... maybe I'll share them when they be more concrete.

Well... goodbye 2005. And as 2006 steps past the threshold, may it be one filled with happiness and fulfillment for all of us.

That said, it's time for individual messages now:

Tammi - Wow, 7 years and counting as the last of 2005 rushes out the door, still sholving pins in her hair- I wonder where she's going. I'm glad we never gave up, even though our parents said that we were doomed to drift apart, that it was too difficult to keep up. I'm glad that we're still there for each other, that we may be worlds apart but still one in heart. That we boogie to the same tune on life's soundtrack. Summer sisters forever...

Karen - We've kind of drifted apart, can't really doubt that. But perhaps we can still sit in silence... and be perfectly content. They say true friendship never dies, after all.

Clare, Tiffy, Flick - Hey guys, we've made it through together! As the chicks in the group, I'd think we're as tight as can be (*lol* with all our stressing for exams and stuff). Thanks for all the good times, and thanks for being my support when I needed you. Remember "don't blame it on the sunshine... don't blame it on the moonlight... don't blame it on the good times- blame it on the boogie". YEAH!

The guys (Gordo, Ed, Dan, Deepak, Anthony, Joey) - Thanks for the good times and all the laughs! Especially Gordo for being such a great friend... along with Deepak on that infamous trip ;P

That someone special - 3 months in an hour or so... scary eh! Thank you so much for everything... there's so little I can say, or rather there's so much I want to say but I don't know how to say it. Read my mind, I'm sure you can! :)

Special note to James - I'm sorry for what I did to you this year... hope you're over it and we can start again.

That's all folks! Let the games begin!!