Ten Things New

Looking back on everything, it seems everyone's been recounting (votes and memories) and recollecting (donations and sentimentalities) in the last few days of 2006. We hope we haven't wasted the year. We look forward to having things changed for us in the past. We desperately wish we haven't grown a year older for nothing.

Here's my "Ten Things New (in 2006)" list:

1. New Places: Munich, Germany; Palm Springs, California; St Andreas' Fault, Calif.; Tuscon, Arizona; Orlando, Florida; Brighton, UK; Reading, UK
2. New Faces: All the people from work, London, and friends of friends from around town
3. New Job: like we all know
4. New House: as we've all seen
5. New Pet: you know Beanie was a this-year thing. Last year for Christmas, 2005 nobody had any idea I was going to have such a wonderful lil' sweetheart join my life.
6. New Computer: My lovely Apple wannabe and a Toshiba M400
7. New Things: Teak furniture, 32" LCD tv, lots of unlisted homeware and kitchen appliances
8. New Music: My CD of the year: Cesaria Evora
9. New Presents: 60gb iPod; Canon EOS 55d
10. New Hobbies: Mastering cheesecakes, cooking at home, watching tv (believe me, this didn't use to be a hobby before!), being, in the words of a colleague, "like an eternal flame (they never go out!)"