H A P P Y - N E W - Y E A R ! ! ! ! H A P P Y - N E W - 2 0 0 2 ! ! ! :-O

Wishing All A Tremendously Rewarding 2002!! And May All Your Grand Plans (i.e. Resolutions) Bear Fruit, May You Achieve Great Happiness & Wisdom In "All Things That Matter To You" - Faith, Family, Friends, Love, Career (or work), Finances, Creativity & Fun! :) - and May You Finally Discover A Path That Is True & Satisfying To Yourself In The Year Ahead!

Counted down to the all important New Year's Day with a bunch of fun-loving people last night at very atmospheric Cosy Bay at Tanjong Rhu Road. Some enterprising chap converted this old lighthouse overseeing the Indoor Stadium into a (somewhat cheesy) mult-storey pub-cum-restaurant - very cooling, very relaxed setting but quite cheena cos they kept switching between Cantopop, Chinese songs, Eurotrance and some random pop music and we stuffed our faces with deep-fried chicken wings and french fries downed with jugs of Tiger Beer (What Time Is It? What Time Is It? :p) as we counted down repeatedly (a-la Teletubbies) and sang Auld Lang Syne. The mood was not quite as exuberant as we had hoped it to be, though we had a bit of excitement as the new year arrived when someone from one of the higher levels of the lighthouse threw a lit sparkler onto the canvas canopy (and immediately fled) and it set off a little fire (which got worst when someone else in a moment of maniacal panic threw a full mug of Tiger beer onto the flames! :p).. anyway, fire got extinguished eventually by quite on-the-ball pub staff and eveyone once again resumed their chatter.. quite anticlimactic...

Started the year well today waking up early at 7.30am (cos went to send friend off at airport) and then blading at East Coast in the afternoon before stuffing face with yummy chilli crab at Long Beach for dinner. Yet I'm home early and blogging before 11pm!! :) Think I'll actually get to bed by 12 and get up on time tomorrow!! Yay! East Coast Park was really crowded (the swell partly attributtable - i'm sure- to the people jumpstarting their New Year Resolutions :p) and people just crashed into each other or into lamp-posts and dustbins.. even this friend of ours (who is a fairly competent skater) fell and got a serious cut on his chin (which needed four stitches!!) and alb dislocated his thumb (ouch!) and almost fell into a manmade pond in the park.. quite bizarre...