Todd & Aya doing her Popeye impersonation 

Todd & Aya @ Forbidden City 

@ La Linea with Augusto, Edgar, Ray (?), and Aya 

Aya & Eliot 

Aya & Todd 

Edita & Aya at La Linea 

Aya and her new pal, Grover 

Grover, A, and A 

Aya's into the music... 

Alex kissing ???? who the fondue knows... 

Fido & Sonic 

Fido gets his groove on 

Aya & Augie around 3am at (where else?) Bob's

greetings & salutations...

For me, the "new year" usually starts on my birthday,
perhaps since it's so close to Jan. 1...

I begin the new year:

• 32 years old (and somewhat wiser)
• living in Manhattan
• working at the IAB (www.iab.net)
• with some really stellar friends (and a few new ones)
• still in debt (but working on it and still fairly self-sufficient)
• single (but hopeful)

The pics to follow are from the NYE party that we had over at Sach & Su's place in midtown, which they fabulously pulled off with few hitches after recently spending ten days in western India to attend four weddings (but no funeral). Minus the unfortunate kitchen sink incident and someone having the gall to steal Sachin's "Charlie Brown" X'mas tree from their front door entrance, it was a good time... ENJOY THESE PHOTOS, and HAVE A TERRIFIC START TO THE YEAR!

Welcome to 2005... 

Cheers, everyone! 

Sapphire & Wolverine
(over 10 years since their inception a la DphiE)

Alex and yours truly 

Jose and Su 

Cheers, V! 

Sach, your hand's HUGE 

Rabbi Eliot with a new year's blessing

Corona 

Johnny Mac

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