Happy New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Man there is so much to talk about. Yesterday (Friday 31 December) I was invited by my Korean twin friends Hyun and Joon to go to the movies with them. Surprisingly, my mum gave me permission to go! We watched National Treasure (starring Nicholas Cage and Sean Bean). It turned out to be a great movie! Nicholas Cage was good as usual. My brothers came with me and we stayed right to the end, even after the credits had finished, as we wanted to make the most of our $7.50 ticket. Hamish and I bought children’s tickets. Hyun went up to buy one and the person at the counter asked him how old he was. He answered:

“I’m um…….about 12….”

That sounds pretty convincing! Anyway, fortunately they believed him. I can now say that in 2004, I watched ONE movie! Yay!!! On the very last day of the year as well! The last movie I had seen was Looney Tunes in December 2003 with Chen and his cousin Diane.

We spent last night at the First Light 2005 Event at Aotea Square. The main thing that impresses me is the fact that the event is alcohol and drug-free. How do they control this you may ask, especially in today’s world, full of people influenced by such heinous things? They put up a fence right around the whole building and square, with a few guarded entrances. The guards would search your bags for any alcohol, etc. You may think that it would’ve felt like we were trapped within a fence, but you could barely notice it, and the absence of an alcoholic smell was very refreshing. Now if only it could be smokefree…

We watched a few Classical Chinese performances of people playing Chinese instruments. After that, we checked out the stalls and other stages. There was a karaoke stage with this really HORRIBLE singer. However, on the main stage outside there were performances by Deceptikonz, Tadpole, Adeaze and Goodshirt. I was really looking forward to Adeaze because I’m still not sick of their song ‘Getting Stronger’!

I met a really good friend last night as well…Teresa! The last time I met her was when she dressed up as a student from Rutherford College and visited us one day when she had a day off from her real school. Although she pretended to be a student visiting for a day, she sure had the teachers fooled. Last night she was with her boyfriend Steve (I hope I got his name right!), but yeah it was pretty cool catching up and seeing her again.

When the clock struck midnight, fireworks shot out from the Sky Tower in all different directions! It was great. There were many couples all round the place hugging each other as they watched the fireworks, it was really cool. On our way back to the car we witnessed a guy and a girl round a corner beginning to make out!

Anyway, it’s 2am now and I’ve got to get off to bed so I can start off the new year 2005!