2001annual

NOTE:I report facts. Not opinions, except for my own valid ones. So if you get offended at what i report...then you have a problem with life. This is not material for gossip, or fodder for slander. It's how I saw it.

JANUARY: Spent New Years Day having the biggest sleep ever....but saw Viv and Bill on new years eve, they went good...we were all off doing our own little things...or you guys were....(a foot note-Uncle Johnny* left chatalyst at the start of 2000 and made a dramatic, if attention grabbing, return late 2000....the saga continues)...

Albeit, I show up at the Big Day Out with Scott, Lauren and Grant. They all had fake afros and I had the real thing, so ner ner. Met up with these other chatalyst chatters, who were damn sexy if I could say so but i lost their email addies...and phone numbers...and names.... :o( had fun, jerked off to Carl Cox and Darren Emerson in the boiler room then met up with some Gang Members again the next day...I had forgotten who Grant was....seeing that i NEVER ever chatted to him in my whole entire life......took Shan and his mate Ben shopping that arvo and boy, we will NEVER forget that G-string incident....teehee!

FEBRUARY: This month will plague the rest of the gang forever...well we hope not but anyway...Shan and Jess. You'd be in denial to say that this hasn't had an impact on the gang, differing opinions and accounts on what really happened float around and people are confused....people take sides....words are said, tears stream down the cheek like an MP3 download, shaky at the start then steady as it progresses...then when its all over you want to examine the tears and you start to ask questions....but ANYWAY, moving on....

MARCH: A Quiet month for the gang-or well maybe for me. I was starting uni (along with Robbie), Grant was working his ass off in what he thought was a dead end apprenticeship...he wanted out...good lord! He had been corrupted by Sydney like a Sydney Copper! ;o)

It was probably around this time as well that Lauren started work on her wicked website-oh gawd did we salivate at the site of her all year long! *S*

Although some dudes had a go at her for not maintaining a presence at the various meet-ups that came later in the year, it was this site that made up well for it-Oh lord, she got a picture of me (wet pants at iceskating) and placed the caption, "it's fun to pee into your pants"! This picture formed inspiration later in the year....

APRIL: Going international now: Karin (Libra Lady) moved offices and we were VERY intrigued at her and her boss! *S* whoa, that was funny...we would sit and watch as she would type the events of her office cubicle to us, as if she was the webcam! We watched...and waited...and watched...and listened....would she or wouldn't she? LOL....we all were dying to know...

I guess that was a common feature in The Gang for 2001: Romance and Relationships...we all wanted to know what our fellow gang members were up to.....teehee...shame i never had any news for all you guys.... ;o)

MAY: From: "This is Loz reporting for duty"

<[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: You heard it from the cat's mouth!!!

Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 15:54:00 +1000

Oi ureself *grinning*

Yup u saw right.....I just thought since I plan on not coming online much, there was no point having a website....plus I didn't want one anymore.

I'm fussy about ppl seeing my picture as it is...hehehehe. Awww there there, here have a tissue dear *hands u a box full*

Take care of ureself u hear?

Loz-a-tron signing off.......................

And with that, a website was switched off....obsolete, even though it brought so much joy to us boys....*manages a weak drool* and girls...if i can see a show of hands...yes...raise those hands...hehehe. Let's get a roll call going...

A roll call of The Gang was initiated for the Penrith Festival: Apart from Rob And Alissa, I was the closest one living to the Penrith Ice Rink and I was the last one to get there! *L* There was one meet-up that i wasn't late to....we will talk bout that later!

And for Grant, LOL he got lucky! (For once...*sniggerz*) but yes, we ALL left him alone with Sej, on the ice rink...and oh boy, is that Sej falling over on the ice? Is that Grant giving her a hand and helping her up??? LOL, we all watched from the balcony overlooking the ice rink...it was very Super Dooper Trooper! ;o)

That night, we all went to the Penrith Festival and met up with Amanda, who was my date for the night! Haha! I think she had a sore neck from my erratic driving in the dodgem cars, and Craig had a load of fun on the phone to Lauren all night long....hehehe, my protege, I have taught him the basics of Womanizing.... :op

JUNE: Shan drops a bombshell amongst us all by announcing that he plans to fly over to America on a Shag-A-Thon! Many were intrigued, since there wasn't a lack of women in Australia, but un-fazed and determined, he was well on his way there. He worked his ass off, never came to meet-ups and Uncle Johnny* offered to "sponsor" his trip up there. I (for once) went up to his hometown, instead of him coming down here, showing me around the place and then we went up to Newcastle...

I also hooked up with Colleen for the first time, taking me out on a night clubbing and drinking and meeting some of her friends. I tried to dance, but alas, everyone in the club wanted to feel my afro...

JULY: Lovebirds Alissa and Rob put their fingers to the keyboard and all hands on mouses, as they put the finishing touches to a website...and everyone was like, "awwww...how sweet"....

Yours Truly then tried to organise a meet up-a ten pin bowls gathering. Having the Gang in your own suburb is indeed an embarrasing thing, in fact the best thing was letting them know that Mt Druitt had 2 police stations! And if you thought that this was the meet-up that i wasn't late to-try again...Grant rings me up at 11am screaming, "Where the f*ck are you" and I am, "still in bed.........."

That night, we met Robbie! No crap! Well Grant and I...we had never met him in our entire lives! And there he was...like in our face, the legend in our presence! We wanted to bow down to him, alas we lost him after buying a family meal and devouring it all. And it all began for Sej-I corrupted her by introducing her to Peter Pokie...she fed him all night long...

AUGUST: One day sticks in my mind-Southgate.

Although the weather may have not been so kind to us, we were kind to Viv and Bill, who managed to get something together for all of us to do. We bowled, tried to get into the pub....something that Robbie and I had a major bone to pick...damned Hurstville, shutting down at 9pm...now then, what the hell was that! Were we in the bush or something? I was so depressed about all the pubs shutting down, I locked myself in Lauren's car boot......

SEPTEMBER: The month begins with a birthday party for Sej. It was a notorious party night, hitting the city nightclubs then I broke into my work, but don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Because I am quite proud of what I did...but you see, I didn't hurt anyone.

Libby (JAG) gives all the boys in Sydney a warning to batten down the drinking hatches and prepare to be drunken under the tables: her job posted her out to a hotel on the North Shore. When she got here, The Three Wise Monkeys bar was never the same...again. ;o)

Nor will the gang be the same again. Chances are that the last time the gang will ever be gathered in the same place, same time was the only time that I was ever ontime to a meet-up....Of course, coz it was at my house, for my birthday party!!! Boy oh boy, it was lookin fan-tastic. Now I don't want to be self-conceited, but how good was it? As soon as invites were passed around and given out, the guns came out! Kristen offered to beat the shit out of Jackie in a Jelly-filled wading pool, I tried (in vain but next year nephews and nieces) to get a jumping castle and Twister-better late than never. The party was always going to be a logistical nightmate but you had to love those maps. I put back the party a week so that a) it was on the long weekend and b) Jess was going to be in the area...and then check out this for a bombshell.....

From: "Roger Ramjet" <[email protected]>

To: <[email protected]>

Subject: Dooooooood.

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:55:09 +1000

Yo! Its Lord Funky / Nicodemus / Scott / Whatever here..... some little birdies have been nagging me to come to your party. I figured it'd be best to actually ask the birthday boy himself if I have permission to come. So can I can I can I can I? Pleeeeeeeease?

Cheers dood!

Scott.

Permission? WTF! He came...and he helped Ansett get back into our skies...so he was being drunk and patriotic at once! YAY! This dude from ireland decided to pop in...lawd he was funny...Grant and Mandy were looking forward to a good-ol' fashioned trashing, Shan played music all day long (he never made it overseas-shoutout to Osama Yo Mamma), Craig and THAT bottle of vodka (supplied by his loving uncle)...perfect weather, perfect people=perfect party. Unfortunately the worldwide webcast never went to plan and never got off the ground, Robbie's beast turned into D&M Heaven, Lauren leads everyone to the next suburb's bottleshop (they should have been to the one up the main road....Craig's excuse for getting lost was because he was following Loz's ass...which I saw as a valid excuse)...and who could forget Ben, The Pizzaman bringing in all those pizzas! Woo-har! It was legendary! In his own words, "A fully ethnic gathering" and indeed it was, even if i can't say so myself...and there is a bootleg copy of the video floating around...somewhere....anywhere....

OCTOBER: Viv's job was going ok...till she got told she got the sack. This meant no party. Her fancy dress party has been one that she has been dying to have, no doubt and it was one of the most anticipated parties on The Gang's calendar. Even if a select few were invited....

This month was probably full with meet-ups. We had Adam and Mel down in Sydney on the first weekend, then Robbie, Grant, Shannon and I headed down to Coogee Beach, to meet a friend of Robbie who just didn't turn out to be! Oh well...and Colleen was having loadsa parties that I just could not attend, sheesh...damned uni! And then there was Libby...oh boy, she promised to drink all of us boys under the table and yes, she had us awed....those Banana Benders sure know how to drink their alcohol! But alcohol means that people tend to lose control of what they are doing...and not remember what they do...and in the words of Libby,

"...y'know i wouldn't have minded if no one knew about this, but people do and now the best i can do is get my story out to the people that it matters"...

That was the one thing that shitted me this year...and it came back to bite me on the ass later on...the fact that other people don't give a fuck about what happens, just as long as they know. Believe me, I don't claim to know everything, but the thing is that people can't seem to make the distinction between fact and feelings/opinions. Probably other people like me have heard the story from both sides of the fence, and it's not up to me to make the final statement, but at the same time I don't think it's up to us. It's up to the people that were involved...and although as Uncle Johnny*, i take a neutral stand and provide the listening ear, some people just can't help themselves...

NOVEMBER: More meet-ups....The Gang took off to Fox Studios and went off, some in a party mood and some in an angry mood...shit hey! I tried to keep a smile on my face and turn up to meet-ups...when I could...since I was at the business end of uni. Loz's surprise birthday party was amazing, Craig and Sej were the brainchilds behind it, full marks to them, it was up there in terms of Smashing Meet-ups. We had a barbeque, Jess came down and then Grant and Robbie rock up! It was indeed, a fully-ethnic gathering, and I wish I could have stayed all night, but I was already 3 hours late for work...

The real reason why Jess was down here was because she was here for the Balmain High School formal>oh boy, did that go off! The other night I had a look at Shan's website....*drools* now then, I had a formal at Balmain High but not that good! We stayed at Craig's for the night and decided to make our own little afterparty, Zihni was trashed *teehee* and I got to see American Pie for the first time. Wow.

DECEMBER: Although I couldn't even coax him into going to the pub for a few drinks, Libby managed to lure Shan into a night of drinks at her house. The men swung into action and Robbie, Grant and I lent our masculine hand at sprucing the place up. Well...I brought over a floodlight and that was the only work done...we ended up getting bottles from the bottleO and proceeded to upstage the actual party itself! My date for the night was Libby's coffee table (which I was hancuffed to) and the morning after produced the worst hangover ever! I had to go to work....oh boy, that was fun!

My job was going ok too until I got told that I was going to get the sack....or the chances were that it would happen. Alas, I had to cancel my Slip and Slide party which would have been this Saturday but instead I will be out...paying my dues to friends from another chatroom....(more on this later).

Anyway back to Shan's party; Which ended up being a Drink-fest for two. Shan and Jodie (his gf-yay), Zihni and Libby, and Grant were there, along with Robbie and Myself, where the pair of us would watch them drop like flies, one by one...if you want to learn how to drink, a) have good parents that will get you started young or b) go to university. Your liver will thank you for it.

Our livers will certainly be getting massive workouts coming up to New Years Eve. I don't know how they went yesterday but New Years Eve looks to be a massive meetup @ Craig's...."alcohol central" he termed it. Oh well...New Years Eve for me looks to be one of those nights where I am just not in one place at one time...but I am confirmed for Balmain at midnight....

2002: Well what does next year hold for the gang? Bill's having his 21st inside the first weekend of 2002, he wants to start the year on a party note. Me? There is a lot of hard work ahead. A new job, a new attitude towards uni, perhaps a new girl?!

LOL...Robbie is set to start work on "The Chronicals of Chatalyst" which will be a corker of a read, hopefully my character gets killed off. It's good to see something like this, I mean, fuck, they will be selling off chatalyst next year...it's gone to the dogs already, and when it gets sold don't even expect me to be in there...trust me, I don't like what's been planned for it and I have stated it many times.

Paintball has to be the most anticipated gathering of 2002. It has been put back constantly and constantly due to conditions just out of my control...sometimes I want to go off but I have to keep a straight face, no worries, revenge will be exacted on the day...*S* and if you're still wondering...the more the merrier, so if you want to come to paintball, lemme know asap.

But who knows what the future might hold for us. We'll just keep in touch and hope for the best from everyone....hope you all had a great day yesterday and hope to see you in the new year.

Uncle Johnny*