For all years in memory, New Year's Day or January 1st usually marks this impasse between the high of Christmas and the low of having to go to school the next day. Hence, it is not tradition to make any plans on the night of the 1st. That, however, was not the case for the first day of 2009, since for once, we don't have school on the 2nd. I think it was this realization that drove some of my classmates and I to make plans at around 6 to meet at 7 in town for a movie. This was immediately after our New Year's soiree at Mel's place which ended just a few hours before, and a few of us were still surviving on about 2-3 full hours of sleep. As fate would have it, after 3 games of pool at Lucky Plaza where I probably cost Gerald our first 2 games by playing irrepressibly poorly, Cheryl, Elliot, Patrick, Mong, Gerald and I picked Australia out of all the other possible movies. (At Lido I met Daniel and Stuart and their classmates which reminded me of the plans I need to confirm for tomorrow; can the lunch, green light the cycling/dinner/movie) And an inspired decision it was. On the way back home I toyed with the idea of writing an actual review of this movie since it is the first real movie I've watched in about a quarter of a year (Ip Man doesn't really count as a review-able movie, not to say it was bad or anything), but in my slightly dazed state, suffice to say it turned out to be a brilliant movie, and unexpectedly so for an epic 3-hour movie. Because of the impromptu nature of the outing, I don't have any photos to add to the album of my week I've been building. That is not to say I didn't have my camera with me; I guess I'm still not that trigger-happy to start snapping away in public places, yet. Regardless, I've had an incredible first day, and will happily sleep late into the second before continuing this brilliant start to what will hopefully be a magnificent year.