Just as my stars are starting to align for the future, I got some bad news this week. My good friend Ellie unfortunately has to move back to Singapore on extremely short notice. What a bummer. I met Ellie back in 2004 when we lived in O’Rorke. I didn’t really hang with her much then, but in 2005 we were just starting to jive more until I had to go away on extremely short notice. Luckily, this year we’ve been able to have some good times together, and I realize now that I had been totally underestimating her coolness a few years ago. She’s had more than a few curve balls thrown her way, but if there’s one thing I’ve learnt about her, it’s that she has an incredibly strong will. I’m sure she will deal with whatever comes her way, and be stronger on the flipside for it.

So other than Ellie’s departure, things have been going really well for me since moving back to Auckland in January. I’ve been real lucky to meet up with a lot of my old friends, and meet some extremely quality new people (you know who you are;) I really don’t have anything to complain about.

University is going well - just got my (good) grades for the first semester and only one more easy as semester to go. I’m looking forward to proving all of the people wrong who doubted that I could make it through college;) So close I can smell it.

My future outlook is also starting to shape up in a really good way. I’m been working hard out on a new business idea that I have a lot of hope for. It’s a bit early to talk publicly about that, but I’ll be sure to fill in everyone (all 4 of you that read this) on the details when the time is right.

So I’m going to miss Ellie heaps, but have every intention of partying with her again, and hopefully I’ll have more money for booze when that time comes.