HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

It's 2007! Can you believe it?!
I still remember when we crossed the Millenium and the whole "the world's coming to an end" thing. 1999/2000 -- I was in Seattle with my childhood friend PP and her boyfriend Erik, and the Mayor of Seattle cancelled fireworks at the Space Needle that year. Never imagined where I'd be in 7 years.
Come to think of it, though I've been here for more than 2 years, this is the first time I spent New Year's Eve in Taiwan.
2004/2005 -- I was on the plane coming back from Switzerland. I remember being disappointed that they didn't give out free champagne on the plane.
2005/2006 -- We set off fire crackers on the beach in southern Thailand.
2006/2007 -- We watched the fireworks at Taipei 101 on TV. The media, for some reason, could not stop repeating the fact that it lasted 188 seconds, and it cost SONY $32,000,000NT to put it on display.
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The first day of 2007 on this side of the Big Pond is absolutely G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S!! Sunny and warm (around 23C.... I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit). Nuage just got brushed and he had some of that anti-hairball goo (a small price to pay for being a long-haired kitty). Now he's sitting by his scratch post giving me a "time-out". Bill's playing a video game called Star Wars -- Knights of the Old Republic II. Personally I think the graphics suck and the people talk too much in this game. I'm thinking of ways to bug him (i.e., making funny noises, asking tons of questions about the game, asking him to help me do stuff, etc.), but, I have to admit, it hasn't been very successful so far.
Bill: "Kate, you have no chance. Do you know how much experience I have of ignoring people?"
As an only child, I guess I would have no chance against someone with 5 siblings.
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So I received an e-mail message from PP about how she and Erik (now husband) celebrated Christmas:

Speaking of music we listen to growing up, on the drive
to erik's grandmom's on Christmas Eve we got stuck with one radio
station playing lots of Christmas tunes - some good, some bad - but
the one that almost threw me out of the car was (drum roll ~~~) Last
Christmas! by WHAM! WHAM!!!!! literally……

I don't know why you were so worked up about "Last Christmas". I think it might as well be included as one of the Christmas Carols! In fact, when Bill and I went out with a group of friends right before Christmas, we did our own Christmas Special at Cashbox (Cashbox is a KTV, or karaoke). The first song we sang was Last Christmas (followed by Jingle Bell Rock). I don't know, girl! It just ain't Christmas without Last Christmas. Granted, all of us grew up with 80s music..... maybe the younger generations don't even know the song.
What's the other dude's name anyway? At Cashbox, in the beginning of the MTV, it simply said, "George Michael & Andrew". Sad.....
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Bill just killed a group of people in the game.... he killed them all very quickly.
Now he's chanting in a robotic/French accent: "I caan dowit because I 'ave da poweh. Caan you dowit? I don sink so because you don 'ave da poweh. Haaaahaaaahaaaaa"
And he thinks I'm the crazy one.