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I know I already mentioned this in my previous blog post, but I hope you all have a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR – and welcome to 2010! For want of a better banner, I present to you the official Google Doodle for the new year And while I’m on the Google note, try going to the Google homepage today AND TODAY ONLY and clicking on ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’

We’re 1 day into the new day, and 1 day into the new decade. We’re 364 days until the end of the year, and 3651 days until the next decade. And apparently, we have a little under 3 years before the end of the world… Of course I couldn’t leave this numbers game without mentioning myself somehow, so it’s also 223 days, 5356 hours, 321418 minutes or 19285093 seconds (at the time of typing) until my birthday this year.

Why did I bother with all of that? Because to be honest, for me this is what the years have become. Just NUMBERS, lacking meaning. I remember a few years ago I actually CARED that a new year was approaching, and was excited by the prospect that something new might happen. But this year at least will be far from that: the same class, the same school (albeit with new timetables), and hopefully the same friends (with more to come).

I honestly don’t even care what year it is anymore, because life isn’t about thinking about how much time you have left in the world and planning everything out, but about the spontaneous things. Quote Zombieland: “Rule #32 – Enjoy the little things”. As long as I’m having a good time in life, like I did last night, the years can come and go for all I care. Eventually our time will all come, but that’s not something to think about from now.

Gosh I honestly don’t think this blog post will make much sense, because even as I was typing that previous paragraph I wondered if it made any sense at all… But I’m very hungry and very tired right now, so bear with me while I tell you how my New Year’s Eve was

Two days ago, as a matter of fact, I had NO NYE plans whatsoever… it was going to be the usual go-with-your-family-to-a-family-friends-place-and-babysit-or-sit-there-playing-quadra-pop-on-your-phone-or-stay-home-alone-for-the-new-year… Thankfully the b-hood soon changed that

Originally we were going to go to Mielz’s place (in Penrith) in the morning, then go to the city (?) and then go back while Yilang and Ben stayed for the fireworks… however that sounded stupid (more travel time than actual DOING time) and dangerous. So in the end, we decided on a full-night “sleepover” (/ movie marathon ) and the ENTIRE BHOOD came (Yilang, Ben, Lian, Bonnie, Mielz and myself) except for Anu (who is sadly still in India, coming back in 10 days or so) but HER PRESENCE WAS STILL FELT AMONG US.

I bought some food (GrainWaves, two packets of chips, 2 x Aldi chocolate and Vienna fingers), ate two Krispy Kremes for lunch and Yilang and I caught the train from Hornsby at 12:34 (nice time, I know!). On the way we met Lian (Epping, he walked straight past our carriage…) and then Ben at Eastwood (Lian got together with us there as well), and finally Bonnie at Parra. Ben found his dad’s deck of ‘Ralph Dirty Babes’ cards, and we played Big Two on the way to Penrith. We got there at 2pm, and pretty much as soon as we got there we already saw two mobs of teens get stopped and searched by police. Wow.

Mielz’s parents came with the two cars to pick us up, and then after we dropped off our things at her place and ate “a few things”, we went for a walk to some infamous park Mielz wouldn’t stop talking about… In the end it turned out to be a 5 x 5m children’s playground surrounded by five rocks. I found that quite funny .

Mielz and Ben wouldn’t stop making out the ENTIRE FREAKING TIME to the point that it kinda got annoying, so Bonnie, Yilang, Lian and I decided to ditch them at the park and ran off home. We got back home and did a wonderful job of making her parents think they’re missing (don’t worry, we told them we were joking soon after ), until they both arrived (looking quite ‘rough around the edges’, might I add…) soon after.

Here began the movie marathon – I brought my external harddrive, and that turned out being our main source of entertainment. We watched Zombieland (NICE), 500 Days of Summer (eww), some of Tropic Thunder (an awesome movie but the others didn’t seem to get it), The Man (on my request, everyone loved it), 1408 (alright horror movie) and I introduced the rest of the gang to ‘Fat Pizza’, which is an Australian movie on Leb life in the western suburbs of Sydney – I bloody love this movie and that seemed to be the general consensus, and we ended up watching this twice. Ohyeah, and we watched  5/9 episodes of the Cleveland Show. And perhaps even more which I’ve forgotten about… By the way none of those movies were in watching order, just the order I thought of them in And OF COURSE coconut rum was not in ANY WAY involved with watching those movies

We ate a LOT for dinner (ordered three large pizzas, and then had homemade garlic bread and vegetarian lasagne!), and later on Mielz’s cousins (including Lexan) came with two dozen Krispy Kremes (straight from the factory, literally melt-in-your-mouth)…

We’d just finished 500 Days of Summer and it was 10-15 minutes to the new year. It was retarded how Channel 9 had all these ‘Fat Blaster’ ads and ads for their shows in the new year… NOONE CARES! In the end they only counted down 10 seconds, as opposed to the usual minute. Sigh, sigh.

We watched the fireworks on TV (they were longer than usual, but apparently from next year they’re going to be a lot shorter), then went outside with at least 120 packets of sparklers! We burned them all out on the front lawn while hugging, talking and watching the local fireworks. And let’s not forget trying to out-shout the neighbours, or Lian trying to set everyone alight with his sparklers…

When that racket was all over, we went back in and put on some of the music from my harddrive, to which we attempted karaoke while watching photo slideshows of the year gone past at school

A whole night of movies followed here, during which everyone TRIED to keep awake, but in the end Bonnie and I were the only ones that managed to stay awake (?). Even Yilang had a nap in the morning… Ohyeah and Ben and Mielz were gone for an ENTIRE two hours while the rest of us were watching Fat Pizza. That’s as much as I’m willing to expand on that… SPEAKING OF BEN he fell asleep for quite a while, so we managed to get shaving cream DOWN HIS PANTS haha… and then while Mielz was trying to clean him up, we managed to put some on her ass too – and I don’t think she knows to this very day why Lian, Yilang and I were laughing so hard at her

I ate through the GrainWaves, one packet of chips, one Aldi chocolate and a LOT of water and coke, so I couldn’t eat cake or pancakes for breakfast the next morning, which I’m sure I’ll regret for a while to come…

We had breakfast while watching 1408, Ben and Mielz made out some more and before we knew it, the time had come… We got to Penrith station at 10:20 and then took the train together. Yilang and Ben went to Internet cafe with Kevin Yu and some other guys, and I went with Bonnie and Lian to Hornsby, and they went back to their stations after.

So as you can tell, the b-hood had heaps of fun this NYE

NOW AMELIA MUST SEND ME PHOTOS PLEASE!

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