It's the morning after the new year celebration. There's rubbish everywhere. The folks on our street are normally quite good and we all together would clean our street. This is not true everywhere especially those living in apartments where the street is shared by everyone. Last night, people in the neighbourhood gone crazy. They piled up stuff in the middle of the road and made a big fire. Police soon came but only watched it just to prevent the crowd from putting more stuff into it. As soon as the police left, the crowd, mostly youths started a new fire again. Not sure who will clean that mess this morning.
The fireworks this year were more powerful, although a lot less fascinating if you have seen one too many. Car alarm got set off everynow and then by the big bang. Police and fire services were seen circulating around the area just in case. Elsewhere in the Hague about 90 cars were burned as reported this morning.
The kids went on a bicycle ride at midnight just to see what's going on in the neighbourhood. Basically everyone were on the street. After two hours in the cold outside, it was time to move inside the house. Thats gone another year. A year full of happenings in the world. A year of volatile oil price and global recession. A year of peace, terror and war again. Especially the latest one in Gaza, an endless circle of tragedy, revenge and hatred. My fear is that the spoilt kid of Uncle Sam can do anything it likes now while the 'shoe-thrown' person is moving out and a new president move into the Oval office on 17th January to have a fresh start in the Middleast.
It was also a year of many great sporting events. A year of full of progress in many countries and not so in others. For us it has been an interesting year. The kids are all now together in senior schools. We managed to do our travel to few places. We managed to do our bits to save the environment by cycling to school or work. We managed to foster new friendships. All in all was a busy year.
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