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feelin\u2019<\/b> | new years-y?<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n
its almost 2004 and the start of a nice non-odd, non-prime number. my new years have for the most part been unspectacular\u2026and 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(originally from an email to ags\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
95\/96<\/b> > 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\u2026bwahaha. we then went straight into manhattan (it was around 8:30ish) since we fig\u2019d 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\u2019re bored, we see dick clark, but we stay til the balls dropped and everybodys spraying champagne\u2026word. we head off\u2026and in the ensuing crowd rush we get separated. fish and schnitz disappear\u2026so 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\u2026but caseys going, \u201cnah\u2026they can find their own way home.<\/i>\u201d which i thought was not very coo. then i started hearing noises in the back of the suv and was like\u2026oh shit, red rum. then i hear someone whisper, \u201cpss\u2026tell casey to stop at a diner. we\u2019ll hop out after you guys go in\u2026and then we\u2019ll come in and kill casey!<\/i>\u201d 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\u2026ahhh\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
96\/97<\/b> > \u201997\u2019s new years celebration was back in times square (i think)\u2026except 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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
97\/98<\/b> > 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<\/i>\u2026one block over.) oops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
98\/99<\/b> > 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<\/i>*<\/p>\n\n\n\n
99\/00 (the new millenium)<\/b> > was spent at home because 1)<\/b> i had just gotten back from a semester in italy and 2)<\/b> i didnt want to be blown up at the vatican, or times square, or any major gathering of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
00\/01<\/b> > my friend ping from london came to visit in time for the 00\/01 new years\u2026so i took her and her sis to times square (egad\u2026\u2026sigh<\/i>). after standing in the same spot for about half an hour, ping\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
01\/02<\/b> > \u2026was spent in a diner somewhere. in nj. right. me and fish were jersey cruisin\u2019 for no apparent reason and stopped at a diner for chicken noodle soup in time for midnight. afterwards, we both agreed that once you\u2019ve spent your new years in a diner\u2026in nj\u2026eating chicken noodle soup, everything afterwards is decidedly an improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
02\/03<\/b> > last year\u202602\/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\u2026i think we actually arrived in<\/i> 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\u20266? others)\u2026and 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<\/i>, and then headed to @live<\/i>, where we actually rung in the new year. the party was boring however, so we left. we met up with another co-worker\u2026eddie, who was at a club called tu<\/i>. two other people from my company were also there partying\u2026and eddie was friends with the owner of the club, so we were getting free drinks all nite. word!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
chinese zodiac stuff\u2026<\/b>
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\u2026but 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)\u2026and my lucky element for 2004 is fire (wtf??)\u2026so ill have no luck in 2004. rock! i think i need to read this stuff better\u2026its confusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n