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Helen and I just had the laziest New Years day ever! We just had our own Kagami Baraki of DVD watching, specifically Veronica Mars, a very cool TV series about (I know it sounds lame) a girl who helps her father who is a private investigator. It's a very cool detective story - thoroughly recommended. For the 99.9% of people who don't know what Kagami Baraki is, it's a Japanese ceremony held at the start of the year, where you are supposed to reflect about your life and actions of the previous year, and (if you are involved in martial arts especially) reaffirm your commitment to training. Well we certainly didn't "energize our whole year" this weekend, but it was great having such a relaxing time.

Here are some photos I took from my phone last night. We had a great night, with some good friends over. We drank lots of champagne, ate lots of food, and the boys won at Pictionary! Then we walked down to watch the fireworks at midnight.

Here is a photo of Big Ben taken from the the Dali Museum across the Thames.

Happy New Year, everyone! It's the eve of another year here in Covent Garden, London. We're looking forward to a lot more travel in 2006. For us, 2005 was:

1. New Years with friends in Margaret River, Western Australia
2. Sydney, Australia
3. London, UK
4. Paris, France
5. Venice, Italy
6. Barcelona, Spain
7. South of France
8. Andorra
9. Sydney, Australia
10. Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia
11. Auckland, New Zealand
12. Queenstown, New Zealand
13. Tokyo, Japan
14. Scotland, UK
15. London, UK

We immigrated to London in August on the highly-skilled migrant programme, so as you can see it's been a busy year!

OK, Just moved my site to another server. Have to set up my site again!

Here are some photos of the new apartment. As you can see we still have boxes everywhere!

Well, after nearly a year of not updating the news log on my web site, I've finally decided that it's time to start updating it again! The reason? Well, maybe it's that Helen and I have just moved to a new apartment, in fact an apartment that we own! It is in Goulburn St in Sydney, right in the CBD, and we absolutely love it! I'll post pictures when I can be bothered.

It was Helen's birthday on the 10th October, and my present to her has a romantic trip for two around Sydney harbor in a gondella. The gondella is controlled by a man standing on the stern. Helen and I sat in the little cabin in the centre of the gondella, eating lobster, prawns, crab, oysters and a selection of cheeses and drinking champagne. Some soft, romantic music was played through some speakers in the cabin.

Here are some pictures from Simon and Belinda's farewell. They had it at the Rose Hotel on Cleveland Street. The next day, Helen and I had a BBQ at our apartment, and the bottom photo is a picture of K8, the guest DJ.

Well, we just arrived back from our holiday in the Gold Coast. My parents have bought a fantastic apartment up there. We had a great time playing mini-golf, playing pool, going to the beach, playing tennis, swimming, visiting Movie World, and wining and dining.