It’s been a fierce, feisty, fatiguing, fucked up and fun 2007!
Well, at least mine has been. 
It’s amazing how unpredictable life can get, and how it can be sprinkled with both rollercoasters and quiet times. I’ve had some nasty scrapes this year, but I’ve also had some of the best times of my life. I’m glad to have had both, because one means nothing without the other.
Whether you’re glad it’s over or you don’t want it to end just yet, time marches on. Very soon we’ll have a new calendar to think fondly of, resent, and shrug about. Look back and reflect, and look forward and aspire, even as you look to the present and just live.
Season’s greetings, and have a good start in 2008, everyone! 
They’re back, with a new album: Girls, Et Cetera!
Read the interview by Luis Katigbak over on Pulse.ph here. 
And come to the launch on Thursday, December 13, over at the new Club Dredd in Eastwood! Check out the details on Luna’s blog here.
I now firmly believe that there are mood enhancers in instant noodles.
I just had a bowl of instant soup with noodles. Prior to having it, I was feeling very sad and moody. And now I feel… well, not happy, but decidedly not sad anymore. I have been drugged. I’m sure of it.
Not like I mind at the moment, seeing as how I don’t like being sad and any alternative is welcome. It’s just a tad concerning, I suppose, how easily altered my mood is after having one damned bowl of instant soup. And it didn’t even taste that good!
It’s unfortunate that some of the things I can most eloquently discuss are the same things I can’t publish for public consumption.
Cardinal rule of online life: post only things that you’re comfortable being judged for. Whether it’s a blog post or a photo or whatever else, if you upload it, you accept the risk of your being pigeonholed as being something or other for it. We do it all the time ourselves, really. We surf the net and then draw conclusions about people based on some snippet of his life: his character, his personality, his identity. Sometimes we’re right on the money, but more often than not we’re lucky to be even half-right.
We come up with these grandiose assumptions about how someone must be great or petty, ordinary or wonderful, hot or not. As a matter of principle this is unfair, but it’s also a fact of life. We don’t often have the luxury of waiting for life to give us a chance to get to know people better. Sometimes what little we glean about them is all we’ll get before having to decide whether or not to have dinner with them, side with your friends for or against them, or perhaps even sleep with them.
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Oh my GOD it’s cold these days. 27 degrees Celsius, according to my wall thermometer, and that’s indoors. And it’s not even raining, or windy.
I’m not generally a wuss when it comes to feeling cold, but I’m not completely back up to proper health from a bad weekend illness. I would have been fine by now if not for a very intelligent decision to clean the house two days ago. Hello, relapse, nice to see you again.
Ah well. It’s all good; I’m sure I’ll be fine in the days to come. It’s December!
Aside from very interesting work developments this past week, I’ve also finally gotten around to playing this, shortly after finishing its predecessor, Covenant:
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