2006

It's a New Year. I didn't really celebrate. Kind of sad. Just had dinner and movie with a couple friends, went back to lab, went home. Just another day of the year. I realized that I don't celebrate conventional holidays as much anymore; it's not that I don't want to, it's just that I don't see them as being really special to me. We defined the calendar year, so what makes January 1st really significant? I find more "random" dates such as birthdays to be much more meaningful and worth celebrating. Am I getting duller? When I say random of course, I mean defined without convention. We didn't define our date of birth. That was somehow decided by chance (unintentionally!) or fate (intentional). Call me a nonconformist, or perhaps just lonely. I did enjoy a heckuva lot of See's almond royal candy. Good stuff. I did get to go out with a sort of a bang though. Some dude who lives in the complex nearby was setting off these tiny single shot flares. At first I was like, what the hell is that? Red flares...someone in trouble? Oh. Fireworks. Yay..more interesting is that we had an additional second added to the year. Quirks in the calendar system.

The movie I saw was Memoirs of a Geisha. Overall I thought it was a good movie. Kind of a too happy lovey Hollywoody ending though. I also didn't find the blue eyes to be convincing. C'mon, when's the last time you saw an Asian with blue eyes naturally? That was catering to the Western audience, in my opinion. Unless of course that was written in the book. I don't think Asian women need blue eyes to be beautiful. Aside from that, I can say I enjoyed watching the movie. I think the turmoils of living a life of an artisan who basically lives for others was well portrayed.

Enjoy the pics.