It has been quite a year and while the upcoming last days of 2007 will be spent at work, i’m savouring every moment now i’m back in Melbourne.

Pre-boxing day sale reconnaissance has been amazing with my first-time experience in the 24-hour Chadstone madness. You can complain all you want about shops closing early in Oz but there’s one important trading day right before Christmas where shoppers were out in force.. jam packed!

Dave and Shan provided me with the pool comfort after such a long abandonment of simple life pleasure.

Jelita and Dazza have been too kind in bringing back old memories. and this year, they decided that i needed a new scent as my Christmas gift. So thoughtful that they actually ’surveyed’ how the smell will mix with other smokey odour. hahahaa

By the by, after a year (it was last year when i posted my desire to get BB8800), i decided its worth the wait to get BB8820 (WiFi). Thanks to my aunt who gave it to me as my Xmas present last year but didnt really get 8800 then due to the lack of its WiFi feature…. My RazR V3 has been serving me well in the past 3 years or so… i love its form factor and simplicity and its bold blackness.. but its due to retire… been having problem with its software and some of its call buttons lately… but BB8820 is comin soon, most likely i’ll get to play with it in the second week of Jan… this festive season pretty much shuts and slows down everythin…..

Anyway.. tomorrow will be the big day where we will be getting up early and knockin on those shops at 6am. Crazy? Yes!

In the mean time, party hard.. have a good Merry Christmas and take care of each other especially when travelling!

The celebration for me was shared with friends along the Yarra River. The fireworks were ok. Obviously the $150k budget cant beat the $3m that Sydney has forked out. I noticed a coathanger was among the centerpiece ever since my trip in early December. Little did i know until a little bit of googling that the coathanger is the nickname for the Sydney Harbour Bridge and it’s celebrating its 75 years!

The countdown for us was quite hilarious. We were caught off-guard by the crowds around the bridge starting the countdown and by the time my count was at 3… the bloke behind me was at 6. I kept quiet unsure whether i was right, only to be blown away by the first shot of fireworks. He kept quiet after that… hahahha…

Anyway.. it was a fun nite…. and a great start of 2007! (even though i must admit that later in the morning, the reality of life has started to sink in.. and the new drama or more likely an old drama being played all over again with new twists). I’m starting to hate it. oh well…