Happy new year!!! Or at least to all those optimistic people out there...

Well, it is quite early right now and I got no idea where this energy to type this out came from...
But anyhow, I must say it is time to say goodbye to the old year and say hi to a new one.

Although there is no fireworks, we must all say that another year had just passed. It sort of reminded me of an article that I had read sometime back, about a child whose grandparent would always go mad whenever she hear firecrackers explode. For those who happen to know me, think of 2003 early February. It is because of the fact that whenever firecrackers explode, she would think it is the guns that is being fired as she had lived through the second world war and her husband was killed then. Whenever she heard that, she would go mad and start creating havoc around the house...

Anyhow, it was a very touching story, when for one year, all the neighbors decided that for one Chinese new year, they would not burn firecrackers. And it stayed that way until the author's grandmother passed away. I must say that it was a really quiet Chinese new year...

No fireworks, this is to be with the nations that had been dramatically affected by the tsunami that had occurred after the earthquake underneath the sea off Indonesia west coast. Fireworks were used to drive a old year out and welcome a new year in, but it seems that we would have to do without it, well, those people who had died had hoped to see the new year coming with all its joys and hope. Guess they would have to do without it...

This year, which means 2005, we all hope, that the world would be able to recover from all those things that had caused the world to become what it is today, and to become what everyone in the world wants, a peaceful world, for when war and natural disaster and the likes occur, the people who suffer the most is the peasants, the civilians, the people right at the lowest class...

A new year beckons a new hope, but as we welcome this new year, lets us all also not forget the people who had died just a few days ago, and whom will never see the new year in its full glory...

Discmon