New Year 2008

Well this year's New Years eve was definitely better than last year! I went to Hong Kong to spend the New Years and David was there too! Just like our pact at the end of the term we met at New Years eve in HK.

I really wanted to see fireworks for some reason this year...I keep thinking I want fireworks. The ones we didn't get last year. I was shocked when people here told me there wouldn't be any :( But as if it was karma, for the first time in years Hong Kong had fireworks on New Years eve. Normally it's reserved for Chinese New Years.

So there we stood - organised about 1 day before - David organised one half of Kiwis, Jacso organised the other half of Hong Kongers and interns - we ended up with a good crowd of 15-20 people. We arrived at the destination 2 hours before countdown outside the Peninsula hotel and spent that time linedancing, roll calls and pretending to be groupies for entertainment... this was truly an AIESEC New Years eve.

It was sobering to read Zafirah's account of life in Pakistan after the death of Benazir Bhutto after coming home at 4am. It brought me back to reality pretty quickly, where all around the world people will see 2008 arrive under different circumstances. But whatever it may be, we still have to be optimistic and hope for a better year.

So from here... I just want to wish everyone an amazing New Year 2008 no matter how you spent New Years eve.