A breath of fresh air
Well, first of all, Happy New Year everyone, hope you had a safe fun time 
A small BBQ gathering was held at Casa de Frads, with a few games of Articulate until the fireworks rolled around, none of which my team won.. but there is always next time! The Sydney fireworks, as always was a good show, with some 5-6 different set of fireworks visible from our balcony. All in all, it was a good evening, which it seemed everyone enjoyed, and provided some opportunity for contemplation concerning the year to come.
The ushering in of a new year is often fraught with desires for change, changing, changes, etc. I like it just for that breath of fresh air, that coolness in the wind. It is akin to those drops of water just after rain, which funnily enough was exactly how New Years Day was looking in 2007: a day just after rain.
I’m not entirely sure what this year will hold as so much looks like it will change at the drop of a hat… like that drop of water, just ready to fall. Perhaps it is more like Dr Ian Malcolm’s speech on Chaos Theory (Jurassic Park, 1993), where he describes how a single drop of water can go in different directions:
It changed. Why? … Because and here is the principle of tiny variations - the orientations of the hairs on your hand, the amount of blood distending in your vessels, imperfections in the skin — microscopic — never repeat, and vastly affect the outcome.
It appears life itself mirrors the drop: so many tiny variations can occur in the next day, the next week, the next month, leading to very much different lives. Only time can tell which way the drop goes, but I remain ever hopeful that it will be for the best — happiness often only comes when you want it to come, after all.
Photo courtesy of Kellie - thanks
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January 1st, 2007 at 7:01 pm
team win + team ftw == zomg win! ;D
January 1st, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Team FTW, yay us!! Articulate was fun! Azerbaijan should be on the 8ball. Its the answer to everything!
January 1st, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Hmmm saw a movie about chaos theory a few nights ago.. cant.. quite.. remember.. gah!
I say we do a follow-up match with pictionary instead, or perhaps integrate the two. Ive heard of a scrabble-monopoly combo that got quite indepth before, I shall invent Articupict.. Pictulate.. something..
Nice pics Frads
You need a audio clip of raindrops keep falling on my head.. wait.. maybe thats what my blog needs…hmm…..
January 1st, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Articulate rocked!
@Ari:
Don’t forget Pope John Paul II… and also [insert name of random African nation] as well!
@Kellie:
A movie about chaos theory… butterfly effect 1/2? that is literally what Malcolm refers to Jurassic Park as well (butterfly flaps its wings here, causes a tidal wave a continent away).
As for your gaming idea… I like it! Granted I like most games on principle of it being a game, but I would be very interested to see someone draw some of those people whom we had difficulty describing :p
Hmm… and now I have raindrops keep falling on my head in my head! lalallaa… becaaause I’m freee… nothing’s worrying meee…….
January 2nd, 2007 at 8:52 am
once again Frad shares his words of wisdom. never thought of a rain drop like that before….. and you’re right, life is like a rain drop. You really dont know which way its going to go. There will always be many differant scenarios that can occur, which one will you follow?
January 3rd, 2007 at 6:02 pm
nope, not butterfly effect. still braindead.