last night was a blast. XD

day started out late, slept in and woke up around 10am. vicki had friends over to watch Beneath. watched them as they played GH3 after the movie. around 3pm-ish, i rummaged around for some movies and found Epic Movie. XD had to drag myself away at around 5pm from the tv to get ready for the NYE celebration.

caught the 5.50pm train into the city. train was packed! so many nicely dressed ppl, i felt sufficiently underdressed for the occasion with my skinnys+black singlet+gold throwover getup. >< got off at townhall and after some calls to simon et al, managed to meet up with them at the st andrews cathedral. met szabo, mankey, yak, khalil and miffy for the first time. tim i've met before. XD

called will sometime during then and he said to come by yutaka to say hi to everyone. so me and simon trouped off while the rest of the group stayed around st andrews. liased with will's group of nelson's bday party ppl and ours and we decided to join up to watch the fireworks and move together, since on a day like last night, it would be best to travel in a big group.

after that, i decided to grab some food to last me the night and went off to maccas with simon while he called the rest to meet us up at maccas. got my food and we started walking to hyde. parked ourselves on the steps of the war memorial and i ate while chatting with simon, tim, khalil. it took me a while to realise, but did you know, those aren't birds flying around the trees at hyde park during the evening. they're BATS. O.O amused me for a bit there. ahaha!

whilst waiting at the memorial for two other girls joining the group, will called and said his group had finished with dinner and were heading to darling harbour to watch the 9pm fireworks and were wondering if we were heading there yet. as the girls were still mia, we told them to go on ahead first and we'll call when we were there. after waiting for a bit more, kat and wendy came and we met up with them at townhall and we proceeded to darling from there.

upon reaching darling, we called will to ask about his whereabouts
and we met up on pyrmont bridge. met up with nelson, muli, lun, henry, tseann, jaja and her little bro james, andric, aaron, will and jan and her bf matt. there were others also in the group but i wasn't introduced to them so i have no idea who they were sorry! >< james was a firecracker! ahaha! since he's little he's at the perfect height for causing damage to the guys~ ahahah! XD met zoe and simon at the bridge too. :)) lun and i shared a moment when we were stuck behind the taller ppl and were like, wth, we've been standing on our tiptoes and seeing only a bit of the fireworks. ahaha! caught a whole lot on my cameraphone. pics are up on facebook!

after the 9pm fireworks, we then decided again on where to catch the 12 midnight fireworks. some said bluespoint, some said circular, but in the end, we all decided on milson's point. the group split up again, simon et al incl me heading to maccas to fill up on some food, while the others had a head start in grabbing prime spots on milson's.

met up with stephie outside maccas. she was there to party with her crew. XP hardcore much! ahah! after much eating, we finished up and started to head to milson's. caught the north shore trains from townhall and alighted at milson's. milson's was PACKED. after calling and trying to get coordinates of will's group, we started heading in that direction. but due to the mass we just couldn't squeeze our way through to their side of the bridge, so in the end, we just headed over to the other side. view was still alright. :) managed to watch the fireworks display and just revel in the happiness.

got a call from stan halfway through the display and wished him a very happy new year!! tipsy drunk. ahah XD after the display, we had to call will's group again to meet up. met up and took some photos again! then we started walking toward milson's point station but seriously. it was like, unless you have wings and is as tiny as a fly then you'll make it to the station. there was a sea of ppl for 500 metres or more from the entrance. we decided to then just scale the bridge on foot to the other side of sydney.

i clung onto simon so bad cos i didn't want to seperate from the group in the sea of ppl which was sooo big. and add to that, there were these men who were either too drunk to even coherantly carry a conversation, or were some foreigners speaking a foreign language. O.O weirdoes..

met victor and his bunch of friends on the bridge. took a leisurely stroll on the bridge, ahaha. and everyone thought simon was drunk off his face. ahah! XD

got off on the other side and re-grouped. we , simon et al, decided to head off to catch the bus to szabo's place to chill. just realised we walked from milson's point all the way to hyde park. phwoar.

took the bus and got to szabo's place at around 4am-ish. got to see the Sydney Boys Year 12 2006 year portrait hanging on szabo's wall. i was just looking through the faces to see who i knew. XD simon helped me along the way. ahaha!

mankey made some espresso for simon, himself and i. and we sat down to learn how to play poker. played a few rounds till i lost all my cash. ahaha! some others played simon's GH3. after finishing our coffees simon and i decided to make our way home. said our goodbyes and started on our way to hurst; simon wanted to change his cars.

simon managed to get me home at around 5.30am. saw the sunrise when i got back home. perfect beginning to a year.

anyway, HAPPY 2008 EVERYONE! ^^