....It's The Lil' Things That Make Life Sweet....

2008.

I had the greatest time ushering in the new year. It was the most spontaneous thing I've done ever. And yes, I'm liking it.

Made a bunch of plans earlier in the day only to see them fizzle out by evening because everyone just couldn't make it. I was already set on having a mellow night at home, maybe sleeping in early.

Then Peter called and the next thing I know, I was all dressed up, in front of my house with Aiman and Peter and two cans of beer waiting for Oliver to pick us up to I have no idea where.

An hour later and very poor rationing of that measly two cans, I decided to just change and settle at some mamak nearby. In the car, we decided to get a carton of beer and just find a place to drink. Peter told us about this cheap Indian stall selling really cheap liqour in Taman Daya so we went there to look. We rounded the place a few times to no avail, until Aiman shouted, "There! Tambhi Liqour Murah!!", to which I gulliably responded by actually looking for the said sign until Peter went "Deyyyy, shaddup lahhh!". HAHAHAHAHA. Good times, good times.

Anyway we ended up buying 4 big bottles of beer from some Chinese coffee shop instead. Decided to head over to a playground in Manjalara to drink and on the way we went up the flyover and saw many cars stopping by the side of the road. So we did too.

12am. A 180 degree perimeter illuminated by bursts of colourful squiggly lights. Some people cheered. We drank and ate our peanuts while trying to guess which firework came from where. It was nice.

After that pit-stopped at Spicy because the boys had to pee. -_____-

We stopped by an empty playground nearby and sat on the swings and slides, drinking, eating peanuts and just basically talking about anything that comes to mind. It was a lot of fun. Swings are really fun. We laughed and talked and reminisce the old days. Talked about live, talked about love, talked about politics, talked about religion, talked about friends.

It was great. I would never imagined spending my new year with these two but it was very symbolic. There was a Malay, Chinese and Indian, how cliche eh? I swear it would have made a great Petronas Merdeka ad. HAHA!

We finished the 4 bottles and drove over to Spicy to meet Andrew. Apparently I was knocking into tables and not exactly walking straight. Haha. Talked more there, laughed even more. Maybe the alco made me silly happy but I know one thing for sure, there was no place I'd rather be.

After Spicy we went to McD's for unknown reasons. Ordered some food and talked some more till my mom called me sounding not really chirpy.

I went back home at 6am to a very unhappy mother. But it was all worth it because I had such great fun. We made better friends that day. Words just cannot express how meaningful it was to me.

What a great way to start a new year. *smiles*