Happy New Year

And suddenly it is 2005...certainly crept up unexpectedly. Doesn't feel particularly exciting or great or anything...another day, another year.

Spent a tiring but marvellous NYE in Sydney with my gf, bummed around in Chinatown and Cockle Bay then walked to Mrs Macquarie's Point from Circular Quay station, via the long way because everything was fenced off, can't believe how many people there were. Got a half-decent vantage point though couldn't really see the bridge too well. But the atmosphere and fireworks were great...though debatable whether it was worth all the walking, I think I'll watch it on TV next NYE...heheh

For the first time I set some NY resolutions, not all of them my own idea and thankfully nothing too ambitious, so fingers crossed I'll be able to keep them. I can be indecisive at times so that is one thing I'm trying to change. Be more assertive you know, not to sit on the fence so much... YES I'd like fries with that! :P

Oh read something sobering in the SMH today, in relation to the Asian tsunami apocalypse, "the total world response this week - $US500 million according to the UN - was not more than Australians spent on their new plasma TVs in the past 12 months." Powerful stuff...says a lot about how much we value human life, especially lives that are not our own. People think nothing of spending $5000+ on a plasma TV for themselves, but to actually help other people? Forget it. I too am guilty of such thinking...I'm not proud to admit it, though I am trying to change...