January 2010
Comments(9) Can’t believe it’s already 2010 and the first month is now over too! Also can’t fathom that it’s a decade since the Year 2000. It certainly doesn’t feel like that was ten years ago. I remember celebrating NYE in 2000 in Sydney sitting on the banks of the harbour near Kirribilli and watching the spectacular fireworks bursting over the harbour bridge. I don’t think many fireworks displays can beat Sydney’s.
For 2010 NYE I was in Melbourne – surprising to think that I’ve lived here for over 4 years now too. If you had asked me in 2000 where I would be in 10 years, I may have said Melbourne as a possibility but it would have only been a vague notion that I might have moved somewhere other than Sydney by then. And if I hadn’t met Andrew, likely that it may never have happened. But I’m very glad it did!
We celebrated NYE with some of our immediate family (from both sides which is a rare occasion) at our favourite restaurant, Afghan Village in Camberwell. It was fantastic and a great way to start the year. The rain bucketed down at 10pm so we were quite glad we hadn’t decided to go into town to watch the fireworks also!
Funnily enough yes it doesn’t feel like a whole decade has passed us by and yet unfortunately it has. Still remember the 2000 Fireworks when someone dropped champagne on my newly bough Olympus lens
No I didn’t let it spoil my evening but did blame her for my photos not turning out 
This year though we watched the kids fireworks and were off to bed I had to be at the airport at 6am!
Poor D had be up and run around for me. Sounds like you had a good time at the Afghan Village.
Can’t believe about the lens!! Hope it happened before midnight so you left that bad luck in the previous decade!!
Ha ha it was indeed. The photos came out a little blurry as I didn’t have the lens cloth to wipe it down properly
ah the joys of being around drunken yobbos 
Time Certainly does fiy! I can remember in 2000 spending NYE sitting on the banks of the harbour just around the corner at Bradleys Head, and we hadn’t even met by then
Afghan Village has fast become one of my fave retaurants in Melb. It was good this year to be able to spend NYE with Rose, my Mum, Peter, and Katie!
Amit, that’s poor form spilling anything on such a beautiful lens (love Olympus
). Hope to see you and D sometime this year!
Funny to think we were both there that night Andy but wouldn’t meet until about 5 years later! Ahhh…fate.
Was that the New Millenium? I thought you were in Byron Bay with me, drinking wine out of paper cups in the main street and the cops tipped out our wine!
That’s if my memory serves me right!! Nowadays it usually lets me down!
I enjoyed my holiday in Melb and especially going to Afghan Village for a meal. I would love to go there again one day. Thanks for introducing the restaurant to me and for showing me many sights in Melb.
Maybe A.S. Byatt isn’t so good after all.
Maybe it was Byron for 2000 and Sydney for another NYE – that’s probably right! Maybe Sydney was 2001. My memory must be failing too.
The Childrens Book by A.S. Byatt is interesting but quite slow. I haven’t been able to get into it because it swaps between characters a lot.
It’s unbelievable that ten years have gone by already…..a lot has happened in our lives during that time, I suppose that’s why the time goes by so fast.
I’m finding the same with ‘The Lacuna’, quite heavy reading but very well written. I suppose we think our favourite authors will always write the same way.
All the best for the next decade