Happy 2008!!!! The Time of Our Lives

The TIME of our lives is the SLOGAN of this year Sydney New year eve fireworks theme 2007-2008.there's this rotating hourglass lightwork centerpiece in the middle of Sydney Harbour Bridge that will shoot out firework itself. this year, the bridge is the centerpiece with 4 other spots along the river shooting out fireworks. so in total there are 5 spots shooting fireworks. the fireworks lasted 12 minutes. GooD Work. heard that it took them 15 months to plan it, meaning they are now in the middle of preparing for next year's fireworks too. >0<

Part I of the fireworks showed on the TV

Part II

i was at jac's place. while watchin it on the wide screen flat screen lcd tv we oso can watch it fr faraway at the balcony.

i would say the fireworks is the nicest and the most magnificent in the whole OZ and the world and it's oso the nicest i have ever seen in my life. well, i definitely will like to watch it on the spot but then it's so crowded (one million pple crowded in CT, MADness) . some of my frens managed to get a good spot at Mrs Macquarie Pt in the early morning and they stayed there till midnight....that definitely needs a lot of my perserverance. there are 40 vantage points to see the fireworks and many pple were turned down as it's full d. tho at home, we can watch the bird's view of the fireworks from the helicopter being broadcasted on tv. watching on the spot is always different. as i have privileged to experience that in Spore NDP 8 years ago.

i have this dream (juz dream) well...u see if u don't wanna squeeze with the crowd....one way to do it is to get a yacht. mayb have a dinner and champagne with frens then when clock strikes 12, we can watch the fireworks erupt right above us w/o squeezing with other pple on the land. then when we wanna go home....we can juz "drive" the yacht back to a port away fr sydney city (that's prolly where we came from too) dont' need to fight with the crowd for buses and overpriced cab. oso dont risk any random pple attacking u with beer bottle. LOL

another more luxury way is to juz get a place at Woolloomoolo... ( the place beside harbour bridge over the north side of sydney. can juz watch it at my balcony.....hohohohoho

while it's the time of celebration and everyone is so high. there's always controversy: why OZ spent so much money on the fireworks instead of on so many other stuff...

not all the places are as blessed as sydney
some places has terrorist threat so they have to cancel their fireworks. some places rained.... some places are juz too poor to do that....
let me rewind back to what did I do on 31 dec 2007
well i finally finished cleaning my place before we go shopping for the dinner at Coles.
Jac is the Main Chef, in charged of cooking and making the Homemade Gourmet French-Italian Cusine while i'm the chef's assistant (incharge of some cutting and washing :D). after a couple of hours, these were wat we prepared.

Apppetiser

Entree

Main Dishes:

Drinks

no photos of dessert: jellies of different flavour: peaches, mango, red wine. i like the red wine the most. it has the taste of wine w/o the bitterness !!!

while we savoured the well prepared dinner at 9pm, we watched Bourne Ultimatum. after watching the midnight firework, we watched License to Wed.

my New year Day is again another normal day. Again, my visual field is not more than 10metres within my house. i'm such a PIG...

well back to the theme : time of our lives. well....i guess it's the time of my life too....i'm in one of the world most vibrant CT, studying, with a nice place to stay, good frens, good food, good experience, have learnt lots last year. erm...mayb i'm a bit more unfit than last year......and sheepishly i would like to announce i'm still Single....but definitley there are more better years to come, looking forward to it.

PS:I can't imagine the first Chinese TV show i watched on OZ TV is the Hero by Zhang Yi Mou being shown on SBS. it's my first time watchin it tho. plenty of visual effects on the swordmanship and the bright colors and not to forget those "chim" chinese theories that always make the angmo's bewildered....