I toyed with the idea of posting slightly after the new year began late last night/early this morning, but in the midst of friends, I decided to just let my thoughts slide and pick them up again once I got home, which was a few minutes ago. 

This week has been a microcosm of my year, and as 2008 gave way to 2009, the symmetry of the week which I mentioned in my earlier post continued. I began the last day of 08 doing Uni Apps, and I will end the first day of 09 finishing up my PSC App. Mahjong was present on both sides of midnight, as was our screening of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The people whom I spent most of 2008 with were also the people with whom I spent the first few hours of 2009. A class party for every occasion indeed. 

At the height of last night, the people gathered at Mel's place were Mel, Mong, Daryl, Gen Huong, Ted Kin, Darren, Nic, Cheryl, Jim, Gerald and I. Elliot joined the 8 of us who had stayed over night at the tail-end of brunch at Holland Village at noon (after our discovery that the years of double-beeping EZ-link taps were a thing of the past), and by the time we left, there were just 5 of us who had stayed to watch Burn After Reading and clean up the place. 

If 2009 turns out to be anything like it's very first day, I think I could very contentedly live with that.