happy new year!

woahz, there goes another year... fast and furious haha.. recalling all the beginning of my years, this year's is really kinda different... and in a good way too! much less frustration and uncertainties brought over from the old year.. pray that this year will be kind on all my friends and loved ones...
it's been a long time since i've celebrated new year's day.. it's been mostly staying at home and wishing friends online a happy new year, except for one year in which i went to orchard with some of my rv sec3/4 friends and it was like hell broken loose... O.o
spent this year's at city hall area, and thankfully, it was much much saner than orchard... phew... went for mass at cathedral with S and met J there! sadly they weren't playing the pipe organ for that mass.. =S haha.. then went over to Esplanade's Ichiban Boshi for dinner, my goodness, the sashimi is still as heavenly as it was the last time i dined there! so fresh yet so full of flavour.. mmm... =P can't believe we finished dinner only barely before 10pm (when the 1st round of fireworks were supposed to come on) heez.. well, ain't eating about enjoying the food and company? ;)
esplanade waterfront was seriously milling with people.. people watching the free concert, people standing around, people sitting on the grass or concrete floor reading newspapers etc... found a spot to stand and watch but nothing happened for 10+min, then it started raining! sigh.. there was this mad squeeze to the entrance to esplanade, and as if that wasn't enough, there was another human jam at the underground passage from esplanade to citilink mall.. people packed shoulder-to-shoulder, hardly enough oxygen in circulation, you could practically taste the tension and frustration in the air... the perfect conditions for a stampede, but thankfully nothing of that sort happened..
after moving at an average of 5 cm/min, we finally breathed relatively-fresher air.. rushed all the way to the church of sts peter and paul to catch the band that's representing mm for the revive countdown and carnival, to find that they were only still at the adoration bit.. oh well, at least we didn't go through that near-hell to have missed it.. =P seems like the programmes got pushed back slightly, maybe cos of the rain.. they still managed to perform 2 songs out of the planned 3, at least.. other than the slight imbalance in sound volumes (which god-knows-why always happens even with sound checks), it was totally awesome! praise the lord for such wonderful peepz in mm!
did the countdown itself at spp, but it didn't really feel like a new year at first, it was only after thinking to myself "oh, it's the new year already!" then suddenly there was this internal switch of perspectives (erm, not sure whether this makes sense, but kinda difficult to describe this feeling)... it suddenly felt as if all the worries of the past year can finally be left behind and this is gonna be one new year to discover and tame... fresh possibilities, new challenges, all waiting to be taken on.. fewer restrictions? somehow felt more freedom.. heez, this may all sound kinda silly, like it's just a thing of the mind that's gone beyond midnight, but yar, it did feel so..
anyway, headed back to raffles city where the car was parked, but the mall was closed by then, so had to go down by the long and winding way that the cars go by haha.. woahz, it was one wait to just get out of the place... then went to macs for some food and chat..
woke up only around 2pm today haha... some haywire schedule i'm on this hols.. =P but if i must say, it's been a tiring but really fun one.. =)