Unbelievable it is now the year 2012. Surprising how time flies. It was about 6 years ago when Daniel Chew the blogger started blogging on the blogspot platform and it has also been 4 years since moving to WordPress. Year 2012, the year that people say the Mayan calendar stopped short. Well, whatever it is, I am going to enjoy this new year. I believe that one of the most important thing is to update this blog regularly.

A surprising thought and facts for the people out there. On the eve of the new year, it was my very first public count down for the new year that I have ever joined. Where did I go? Desa Park City!!!!!!! Yes… I really meant that. That proves that I usually do not go out for these kind of events previously and now thought why not? Since we live only once.

The new year could be celebrated with a toast of Carlsberg mixed with Gusiness Stout with friends and family (did that post new year with my brothers and uncle and the taste was superb).

Well, new year usually means new goals, new directive, new job??, new everything. So what does it bring to this blog, which was recently changed to Daniel Chew the Weird in this new year? More weird adventures? Less adventures but more things to write? That, I can assure you is I do not know what lies in the future. What I do know is that, I will be way way active.

Surprisingly, this is the only theme which has lasted more than 2 terms. I think it is time to get a newer theme and bring forward some changes. Anyway let us get back to how it was, my experience doing the countdown on the eve of new year.

Location: Waterfront, Desa Park City
Crowd: Lots
Time Arrived: 8pm
Patience to wait for a parking spot: Priceless
Patience when you noticed a guy coming out to get his car from the car park: Mega Priceless

The agonizing wait for the new year has begun. While the musicians and performers dance through out the night, a few of us spent our quiet dinner time at the Coffee Bean outlet. Clock struck 1115pm, time to move out to where the crowd was gathering. Doing the countdown with lots of people though felt weird. Maybe I am weird to begin with, there are lots of different types of people and rather some familiar faces which I got to glanced upon but due to me forgetting their names, it was wise not to approach them.

The fireworks arrived as the clock struck 12am. Happy New Year 2012. Forgive the photos quality, I know they are not DSLR quality photos.

Anyway once again, my new year resolutions are to be

1. More involved in my marathons
2. Gain weight and muscle mass
3. Lose my tummy fats
4. Take photos better
5. Be a better man
6. Write more stuff on the blog.

There are more, but writing all of them down would not count as a resolution, more like a dream. Why have I been having fewer posts? For those that do not know, I have few other blogs and they are all listed below.

TechieDan - gadgets and technical know how blog based on experience
Daniel Chew Photography – the name itself mentions its purpose. It was a long wait to get this domain name
and many more… not listed here.

Until then, Happy New Year to all my friends and family. Do give me a ring or contact me for a drink or catching up session.

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Do you wish that one day you can actually see snow in other parts of the world where there isn’t snow at all? What I meant by that is natural snow caused by the weather. Now imagine Malaysia, the country I live in and it snows. Bet that lots of people would be wow… it’s snowing wheee~~~~ but then, if you were to think it further and carefully doesn’t it mean something like this

Oh SHIT!!! It’s snowing. Something is happening. #2012

This is some thing I thought up but yes, nowadays when there is something out of the extraordinary we twit about it with the hashtag #2012 and it became viral to a few people. All credits to Satkuru who started this for me. If you haven’t followed my twitter, here’s the page http://twitter.com/danielctw.

The latest entry by Satkuru complaining about his facebook thingy.

RT @hongaun: My facebook interface keep on changing (switching between old and new one) what’s going on??? #facebook #2012

Somehow I got a feeling that someone’s name almost same with me I just had to do this

OMG almost same name RT @bryanhoo @danielctw his name is danieltwc. similar with u. that’s why i confuse haha #2012

So let’s go back to snow in Malaysia. Apparently people wanted snow to drop in Malaysia that some shopping complex in Kuala Lumpur is doing just that for the public. For instance Pavilion shopping mall. There’s snow.

Oh my snow in Malaysia at Pavilion Kuala Lumpur

The people are panicking NOT.

Snow turned out to be bubble foam. Really really weird people. Why in a crowd waiting for snowy FOAMS. Seriously this could be tag as #2012.

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