if only we could go back to then...
uh.. i totally wrote this ages ago, but forgot to post it. i was like reading the "year in review" thing on a few other blogs and i was like "hrm.. didnt i write one of those? i wonder where it went.." .. see what happens is that when i write long blog posts i tend to write them in notepad first, cos web browsers tend to die alot and so i dont wanna risk losing such a long post =p it was jsut sitting in notepad at work.. buried under multiple web browers, and java code and web server consoles =p

uh.. last year was like totally weird. it was certainly different to other years .. im not really sure how to describe it. it was neither better nor worse.. just different. i think the biggest lesson i learnt this year was that things arent all that bad.. i shouldnt try so hard to chagne things all the time. i often say that i wanna change this and that.. but change is so much effort and rarely worth the trouble =p

:: work work zug zug
work is totally the same as it was when i started 4 years ago =p i still dont really do anything.. the only real difference is that i get paid more to do nothing now. The appears to have been a mass exodus from the CBD, with hardly anyone around for lunch nowadays. lots ppl have moved out to like north sydney and outlying business centres... i (very) briefly considered quitting.. but changes are imminent at the rba anyway so the coming year should be different again =p

:: sport sport
well this was pretty interesting... i quit dragonboating cos i totally couldnt handle the hectic training schedule. i continued frisbee, we won div4 and so we moved up to div3 its going pretty well i think. i played comp basketball for the first time since 1997, it was pretty coolness.. ive sorta forgotten how to play basketball though.. =p

i went snowboarding in japan =) started skateboarding again.. i started doing rock climbing... i played a bit of tennis here and there.. and i even played on an indoor and outdoor soccer team for a bit... phew.. thats a lot of things for one year =p

:: socialising
this year was pretty much a write off in terms of socialising.. i totally just couldnt be bothered most of the year. i spent most of the year being accused of being a piker... and that was fair enough =p but my bday dinner was heaps good this year.. lotsa ppl i like turned up =) i once knew this guy at school named Nico he never really came to social things.. because apparently things which are rare become more valuable, so by only turning up to say 1 in 10 events, made his visits that much more valuable.. hehe .. or so goes the theory anyway. and i guess i might be like that, i enjoy outings more if i dont go to them all the time. i dont really like the idea of going to things out just of politeness or just cos i dont have anything else to do. also my life was consumed by pokemon for a while =p .. but i have to say im rather very bored with computer games in general.. nothing has really kept my attention much of late.

:: females
the two most common questions im asked when i catch up with ppl are "are there any vacancies at the RBA?" and "have you got a gf yet?" .. so i figured i should put a section for this.(also after my sister got married, i was bombarded with "when are you gonna get married and move out?" from every relative within a blast radius of Sydney) so ..um.. nothing really to report.. there was this girl who i liked heaps earlier in the year.. but girls are nothing but trouble.. and this one was no different. she jsut turned out to not be who i thought she was. though this year i sorta realised that theyre not really trying to be mean, theyre jsut careless and not all that thoughtful. which i guess is excuseable.. im willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, i figure they dont know what theyre saying more than theyre trying to jerk me around. .. i was thinking that if i was trying id sorta be after a gf for all the wrong reasons anyway. i mean i dont wanna forceably attach myself to some poor girl just cos its the thing to do nowadays =p im pretty sure i was heaps of a jerk to my last gf anyways.. i wouldnt wanna do that to anyone else... at least till i sort myself out. but i am quite lightbulbed nowadays though ....

:: um.. miscellaneous odd and ends
i finally started playing some bass.. only to find out that judy is coming to take it all away. i think destiny is trying to tell me that bass isnt the path for me. i might learn piano or something... *shrugs*

this year was actually ok for injuries. whilst they were frequent.. there werent any serious ones. they were all jsut cramps, sprains or grazes. skating resulted in heaps of extra bruises and scrapes.. but its invigorating almost =p most injuries i get tend to hurt for about 5 mins.. but look horrible for the next 3 months =p

i sorta tried break dancing a bit too.. i can do a 6-step and a 3-step. theyre heaps easy. i cant do much else though. id try more but i gotta put like effort in =p

.. i still havent got my license.. *sigh*

so.. uh.. resolutions go here somewhere..
- get my license, hopefully car, but at least motorbike (this is a perennial resolution =p)
- actually get good at something before quitting (probly skating, breaking and drums)
- go to snowboarding in europe (this one is in the bag.. i think)
- actually save some money (uh.. we'll see)
- convert someone into wearing Chuck Taylors =)


and lastly, a rather australian-looking Top Ten Songs of 2004
10. My Band - D-12
9. Look What You've Done - Jet
8. Stand Up - Scribe
7. Out of The Blue - Delta Goodrem
6. Young Man, Old Man - The Dissociatives
5. Feeling This - Blink 182
4. Sunsets - Powderfinger
3. Check It Out - The Beastie Boys
2. Scar - Missy Higgins
1. American Idiot - Greenday