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its almost 2004 and the start of a nice non-odd, non-prime number. my new years have for the most part been unspectacular…and one year actually rather pathetic. so on this new years eve, i thought id run down the past new years celebrations from as far back as senior year of high school. word.
(originally from an email to ags…)
95/96 > my senior year of high school was the first good new years celebrations i can remember. scottie had just gotten back from his vacation in florida. so me, fish, casey, and schnitz planned a drive-by kidnapping at jfk. we hopped in caseys suv, drove to jfk, tracked him down, and carted him off as his parents watched on and laughed…bwahaha. we then went straight into manhattan (it was around 8:30ish) since we fig’d hey, why not do the times square thing? everybody needs their first time, no matter how stupid an event it is. so we get there, we stand around, we’re bored, we see dick clark, but we stay til the balls dropped and everybodys spraying champagne…word. we head off…and in the ensuing crowd rush we get separated. fish and schnitz disappear…so after a bit of looking around, the 3 of us head back to the parking garage. i thought we were going to drive around to look for them…but caseys going, “nah…they can find their own way home.” which i thought was not very coo. then i started hearing noises in the back of the suv and was like…oh shit, red rum. then i hear someone whisper, “pss…tell casey to stop at a diner. we’ll hop out after you guys go in…and then we’ll come in and kill casey!” ok then. fish and schnitz somehow managed to sneak into the car in the parking garage and was pretty pissed at casey for not looking for them. so anyway, things didnt go as planned when caseys suv dies about 10 minutes from our town, tho fish and schnitz hop out anyway and make fun of casey for being such a dick. we had to have another friend come pick us up. high school…ahhh…
96/97 > ’97’s new years celebration was back in times square (i think)…except with a bunch of people i didnt give a shit about (mini-high school reunion). it felt pretty artificial. oh, and it was 20 degrees outside. yay!
97/98 > was supposed to be at times square with a friend (i just cant seem to stay away), but we ended up bumming in a hotel room instead (at the milford plaza…one block over.) oops.
98/99 > was at a party with carolyn in her town with people i didnt know and didnt have time to get to know (we got there 10 minutes before midnight). *yawn*
99/00 (the new millenium) > was spent at home because 1) i had just gotten back from a semester in italy and 2) i didnt want to be blown up at the vatican, or times square, or any major gathering of people.
00/01 > my friend ping from london came to visit in time for the 00/01 new years…so i took her and her sis to times square (egad……sigh). after standing in the same spot for about half an hour, ping’s sis got bored and left. after another half an hour, it started to dawn on ping how utterly boring times square really was. so we left around 9ish, grabbed a bite to eat at a restaurant, and then caught a bus back to nj. wooha.
01/02 > …was spent in a diner somewhere. in nj. right. me and fish were jersey cruisin’ for no apparent reason and stopped at a diner for chicken noodle soup in time for midnight. afterwards, we both agreed that once you’ve spent your new years in a diner…in nj…eating chicken noodle soup, everything afterwards is decidedly an improvement.
02/03 > last year…02/03, was spent getting drunk and crazy at a club in taiwan. id say a marked improvement over the prior years, no? while my family was planning our taiwan itinerary, i made it a point to have taipei coincide with new years eve. hmm…i think we actually arrived in taipei new years eve. i went off on my own almost immediately and planned to meet some friends up. the odd thing was that there are a couple of other taiwanese at my company (me and 5…6? others)…and all of them were coincidentally visiting taiwan that specific year. crazy. so i met up with my friend joyce, had din in shi men ding, and then headed to @live, where we actually rung in the new year. the party was boring however, so we left. we met up with another co-worker…eddie, who was at a club called tu. two other people from my company were also there partying…and eddie was friends with the owner of the club, so we were getting free drinks all nite. word!
chinese zodiac stuff…
this years new years will be the first in new york city for me (outside of times square anyhoo). which is coo. and im currently working on my list of resolutions for 2004. its a pretty long list…but i fig the more there are, the more chance ill just randomly hit the marks. my forecast for the new chinese monkey year however doesnt look so hot. its the 4701st chinese year, and its the green monkey year (wood element). according to the stem-branch system, im a green tiger (wood) in the year of the brown horse (earth)…and my lucky element for 2004 is fire (wtf??)…so ill have no luck in 2004. rock! i think i need to read this stuff better…its confusing.
> chinese astrology 2004
