HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Even though it's not new year yet, technically.

I got an e-mail that I should have read about 2 months ago. But it was regarding an entry I wrote here back in April when I ws in Paris. It was about this couple that initally met online and they fell in love when they meet each other in person. And yup, they are still happily married. WOW.

Didn't think people would actually read what I write here... AND, didn't think that people would actually take the time to respond to what I wrote... AND, see, dreams do come true. :-P

So like I said before, I am going to keep on believing!

Got in touch with some friends in Sydney. Even now, I still have those flashbacks of the happy days in Sydney. The everlasting amazingly beatiful blue sky, the green green grass with the sings saying "please walk on the grass"... All those little things... The ghetto 28-30 Regent Street, and when you walk out, the sky opens up at Central Square and Central Station. The Mercure Hotel I worked at for many weeks... Then it's the infamous Darling Harbour, where my favourite Startbucks in the world is... Circular Quay, where my favourite bridge and opera house in the world can be seen. The images are still so vivid, but the days seem so far away now...

And so I heard that many people I worked with left the hotel...They seem like they are in another world from me. Here I am, stuck with never-finishing group projects and meetings. Even though it's almost over, it doesn't feel like it's over. I saw on CNN that the bush fire started in Sydney, and it almost burnt down an historical hotel that Stephen and I saw when Kerry drove us to the next town for our bushwalk on her birthday. I can still remember the conversation we had when she pointed the hotel out to us. If I close my eyes, I can still see everything that happened in Australia, still hear the conversations... even, can feel the height I felt when we went bushwalking, climbing on the rocks for lunch.

Then further back, there is Paris. We watched Moulin Rouge in Ross' class in Sydney, and when I saw the image of Paris come up at the beginning of the movie, it felt like I was back there again. Moulin Rouge, one of the last places I visied in Paris, took me a while to find out where it was. The little Cafe Amelie worked at in the movie, I found by chance, and the joyful surprises it caused. The pretty little flower store across the street... Cite, where I stayed during my days in Paris... the wine bottles lined up in the kitchen after our crazy party for Rebecca... trips we took outside Paris where we didn't book any hotels. Where is that fun Anne?? Where is that Anne, who don't want people to make fun of her French but gets upset when annoyingFrench speak English to her??

I guess... those images will be with me for a very, very, very, long, time.

I used to listen to Dido's Thank You every single day... it just kinda fell out of my life after a while I guess. But today, all of a sudden, this song came back to my head. For me, I believe that there is someone out there for everyone. And that someone is going to make you feel the same way in the song...

Thank You by Dido
Written by D. Armstrong & P. Herman

My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all
The morning rain clouds up my window and I can't see at all
And even if I could it'd all be grey, but your picture on my wall
It reminds me that it's not so bad, it's not so bad

I drank too much last night, got bills to pay, my head just feels in pain
I missed the bus and there'll be hell today, I'm late for work again
And even if I'm there, they'll all imply that I might not last the day
And then you call me and it's not so bad, it's not so bad and

I want to thank you for giving me the best day of my life
Oh just to be with you is having the best day of my life

Push the door I'm home at last and I'm soaking through and through
Then you handed me a towel and all I see is you
And even if my house falls down now, I wouldn't have a clue
Because you're near me and

I want to thank you for giving me the best day of my life
Oh just to be with you is having the best day of my life.