Happy New Years!!!
Well today is the official start of 2005. Although I move into 2005 with some sorrow for the tsunami victims, I'm looking forward to a new year. I'm not one to make resolutions. For some reason, they just always never work for me. What I like to do is go back on my year and reflect on the good and the bad.
I could list a ton of both good and bad things, but in the end, there's really only a handful of things that I would like to mention.
First, I had another wonderful year being married to an incredble woman. She had her ups and downs, including a promotion to a Director level, a new car, and continued success in her investments. Despite her incredibly difficult work schedule (works 16-18 hours a day), she still serves as a source of strength to everyone around her. She has also learned to better tolerate my negatives (I'm very sloppy with clothes and not turning off the faucet fully). But most of all, she is even more beautiful than the day I met her and I love her everyday even more. She continues to inspire me and those around me, and I hope that 2005 brings her everything she could ever want - as a reward for her incredibly hard work.
Second, my friendships have become stronger and even more fulfilling. I started out 2004 with a fear that I was very lonely - I felt I had lost contact with some older friends and some of my newer friends were disinterested in getting to know me further. 2004 changed all of that.
My relationship with Jimmy, Christo, and Mark has gotten stronger - despite the distance. We've found new ways (IM and message boards) to communicate and to share in each other's experiences. Christo has a beautiful new baby, Jimmy got married and has a kid on the way and has a new house, and Mark is settling into his role as a strong husband and father - which I always knew he could be. These guys remind me of home - and they will always.
I became even better friends with Terry (aka the Stud). Terry, a fellow surgeon, is a great human being with a strong sense of loyalty, generosity, and friendship that I find very rare. He may have issues with women, but for Chi and I he is a great great friend. Congrats on the new S4 Terry!
Dawn has become one of my best friends. I wouldn't have even met her had I not bought an Audi and became an active member of Audizine. Dawn is one of the most generous, caring, nice, and real people I have ever met. Out of all of my friends, she had the hardest year I could ever imagine experiencing - her father died, her grandma had a serious stroke, her health was difficult as she had a serious illness which required urgent surgery, her car got hit and egged, and she has been underappreciated by those around her (and yes JP that means you too). But through all of this, she has still been the first to smile, hug, and greet me with an bright and sunny personality that radiates strength and trust. I hate to see her go through what she has, I dislike as well the fact that she supports so many around her, and I do not know if her boyfriend realizes how lucky he is. I really do believe that 2005 will bring her many good things.
I don't call em my Audizine friends anymore - they're just my friends. John, I wish he stayed here and didn't move to Santa Barabara. Although 5 years younger, he's just a great guy and I know we would've become even better friends had he stayed in teh Bay Area. Just a fair, nice, and generous guy - John is the epitome of a cool guy. Leonard, I've come to know and appreciate as a smart, generous, and very loyal person. Willing to give up his garage at a moment's notice and talk to me about everything from politics to chess, he's also a new friend I've learned to appreciate. Ken, has been a great person to talk to - about cars and Dawn (haha - yes we talk about you Dawn) and life in general. Deep down, Ken is a generous and caring person who likes everyone and doesn't have a hateful bone in his body (okay maybe for some people but noone I know).
I've become better friends with my labmates. Andy, Jay, Hsieh, TamDelicious, Erica, Stacie, Maria, Karine, Kazu - I've come to appreciate everyone in my lab to be generous, nice, and super intelligent friends who are willing to drop their labwork just to listen to my philosophy on life, sports, and mango thunder. More importantly, they've let me into their world of research and I'm very much the better for it. Together we form a great group of snide, witful, and hilarious bunch of book smart retards. I'm going to miss them when I go back to the Hospital.
PHEW!!! I didn't know I had that much to say haha.
In the end, its the friendships and love that everyone experiences that makes the years memorable. Even unfortunate circumstances reveal the strength of friendship and the quality of friendship - which makes a bad situation good, through it all. I'm very lucky and I hope to continue my friendships this year - as I transition from research back to the grueling 80 to 90 hour work weeks at the hospital.
So with that said, I wish everyone a Happy and Safe New Year!!!!!
I could list a ton of both good and bad things, but in the end, there's really only a handful of things that I would like to mention.
First, I had another wonderful year being married to an incredble woman. She had her ups and downs, including a promotion to a Director level, a new car, and continued success in her investments. Despite her incredibly difficult work schedule (works 16-18 hours a day), she still serves as a source of strength to everyone around her. She has also learned to better tolerate my negatives (I'm very sloppy with clothes and not turning off the faucet fully). But most of all, she is even more beautiful than the day I met her and I love her everyday even more. She continues to inspire me and those around me, and I hope that 2005 brings her everything she could ever want - as a reward for her incredibly hard work.
Second, my friendships have become stronger and even more fulfilling. I started out 2004 with a fear that I was very lonely - I felt I had lost contact with some older friends and some of my newer friends were disinterested in getting to know me further. 2004 changed all of that.
My relationship with Jimmy, Christo, and Mark has gotten stronger - despite the distance. We've found new ways (IM and message boards) to communicate and to share in each other's experiences. Christo has a beautiful new baby, Jimmy got married and has a kid on the way and has a new house, and Mark is settling into his role as a strong husband and father - which I always knew he could be. These guys remind me of home - and they will always.
I became even better friends with Terry (aka the Stud). Terry, a fellow surgeon, is a great human being with a strong sense of loyalty, generosity, and friendship that I find very rare. He may have issues with women, but for Chi and I he is a great great friend. Congrats on the new S4 Terry!
Dawn has become one of my best friends. I wouldn't have even met her had I not bought an Audi and became an active member of Audizine. Dawn is one of the most generous, caring, nice, and real people I have ever met. Out of all of my friends, she had the hardest year I could ever imagine experiencing - her father died, her grandma had a serious stroke, her health was difficult as she had a serious illness which required urgent surgery, her car got hit and egged, and she has been underappreciated by those around her (and yes JP that means you too). But through all of this, she has still been the first to smile, hug, and greet me with an bright and sunny personality that radiates strength and trust. I hate to see her go through what she has, I dislike as well the fact that she supports so many around her, and I do not know if her boyfriend realizes how lucky he is. I really do believe that 2005 will bring her many good things.
I don't call em my Audizine friends anymore - they're just my friends. John, I wish he stayed here and didn't move to Santa Barabara. Although 5 years younger, he's just a great guy and I know we would've become even better friends had he stayed in teh Bay Area. Just a fair, nice, and generous guy - John is the epitome of a cool guy. Leonard, I've come to know and appreciate as a smart, generous, and very loyal person. Willing to give up his garage at a moment's notice and talk to me about everything from politics to chess, he's also a new friend I've learned to appreciate. Ken, has been a great person to talk to - about cars and Dawn (haha - yes we talk about you Dawn) and life in general. Deep down, Ken is a generous and caring person who likes everyone and doesn't have a hateful bone in his body (okay maybe for some people but noone I know).
I've become better friends with my labmates. Andy, Jay, Hsieh, TamDelicious, Erica, Stacie, Maria, Karine, Kazu - I've come to appreciate everyone in my lab to be generous, nice, and super intelligent friends who are willing to drop their labwork just to listen to my philosophy on life, sports, and mango thunder. More importantly, they've let me into their world of research and I'm very much the better for it. Together we form a great group of snide, witful, and hilarious bunch of book smart retards. I'm going to miss them when I go back to the Hospital.
PHEW!!! I didn't know I had that much to say haha.
In the end, its the friendships and love that everyone experiences that makes the years memorable. Even unfortunate circumstances reveal the strength of friendship and the quality of friendship - which makes a bad situation good, through it all. I'm very lucky and I hope to continue my friendships this year - as I transition from research back to the grueling 80 to 90 hour work weeks at the hospital.
So with that said, I wish everyone a Happy and Safe New Year!!!!!
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