christmas is over

Yes Christmas is over, feels like another stolen one.
Spent the eve and the day stuck with the nuclear and extended family. was nice meeting morgan and trying our best to stifle the inappropriate laughter at the most inappropriate moments.

On the morning of boxing day i had to go back to camp to do 24 duty . as i was contemplating what a crappy boxing day it was turning to be , i decided to switch on the telly in the ops room and found out just how crappy the day actually was. earthquakes and tsunamis , two thirds of the maldives going under the sea.

last transmission agreed to gig on the coming thursday. problem is our new drummer jason isnt free and zarina isnt around til thursday itself. felt really bummed considering how tight we sounded the last prac we had. decided to get a replacement drummer, terry. still pretty much bloody bummed cos we are gonna have to play covers for the first half then do our songs unplugged without percussion which is really gonna castrate some the tunes. we are playing straight after ronin in a gig called mosh2004 so i doubt the acoustic half will go down very well with the crowd as well, we hardly have time to prac either.

orchard road was a mad circus carnival sideshow during december. the suffocating crowds, trashy live music at every corner, choirs, overwhelming decorations, bewildering lights. she really became a golden whore. im really glad thats over , but still theres something sad bout walking through emptied streets at the end of it all in the grey and drizzle, looking at the trash of yesterdays streamers and dead balloons fused into the sidewide. watching gnome banglahs ( the illusive sub-type thats comes out at the wee hours and does amazing feats like build over- head bridges in a night) take down the street decorations incredibly fast, like peeling off a thin facade of blistered paint. still the old girl has a lot more soul without the stardust.

december limbo , that period between christmas and new year feels a funeral for 365 sunsets.
in many ways im glad to bury this year soon. From January il be able to say im gonna ORD next year and thats a big psychological boost.

Looking back on all thats happened its been one hell of a year.