togas for '06?

• happy new year, assholes.

modesty dictates that i restrain myself from divulging the details from my new year's eve "celebrations", but granted, they weren't all that bad. then again, a lack of any information would make this post pointless, wouldn't it?
what is funny is that i haven't been invited to paolo's new year's day bash '06. either he's forgotten about me, or the gomes' aren't free this year to host a blastoff shindig...which i can't believe. usually this time pop's grandmothers would come on down and auntie junji would be cooking and i'd find myself passed out on the couch upstairs whilst idiots are abusing my ps2 to no limits.

not happening this year.

i've got to make more friends.

• i, i, I.

angels in america is lush, grand, beautiful, funny, sad. never before has the plight of a gay man dying from AIDS touched me so much. and it's fictional. and that's just one subplot. prior's drug-induced hallucinations, harper's angel-detecting erections, louis' paranoia, the state of the american dream in 1985 (hey, it was reagan) and more more more more more all add up to six hours of goodness.

though it can be a drag. i don't claim to be some kind of bourgeois high-media culture snob, but angels in america is enriching and fulfilling, and it'd makes for compelling viewing. my favourites? scenes between the angel of america and prior. fucking hillarious.

• january begins.

love is severely overrated. wait. i might be in love. to be fair, i don't know what love is. i want to know what love is. i want you to show me.

bad foreigner lyrics aside, may ann's at the beach whilst i'm in the suburbs, and i've been reflecting upon the last month. it's been a weird and happy month. i'm content with that particular aspect with life. but the rest of it really kicks off this month.

1. it's orientation time again for the freshmen (a term that isn't used widely enough in kl) --- wednesday thru friday finds the freshmen set through their paces, as HELP University College prepares itself for its first mass-faculty orientation (at least for the first day)
2. i've got to see if i can register for accounting 2, and, at the very least, just pass it so that i can add a diploma to the wall
3. Lost returns in 9 days (10 days if you're downloading it from southeast asia)

the new year has come and gone. no more auld lang syne.