My Choices Are Half Chance, So Are Everybody Elses

THINGS I HAVE LEARNT IN 2000

• Just because you invite 100 people, doesn't mean 100 will actually turn up.
  
• Putting anything in your ear, smaller then your elbow can result in much pain and an expensive trip to the doctors.
  
• Money is evil.
  
• You miss your mother the most when you have to do your own laundry.
  
• Phone calls become expensive, but if you write a letter, the person you wrote to will ring the day you send it and you'll tell them everything anyway.
  
• Cell Phone + Water Bomb/Toilet = Disaster.
  
• Always wear sunscreen, no matter how small the area is, a small area with 2nd degree burns, in a mosh pit, hurts ALOT!
  
• Generally, if you don't do something for six months (eg playing the drums), when you come to do it again you will SUCK!
  
• Always use water when cooking 2 Minute Noodles.
  
• Tomato Sauce will improve the flavour of any meal served at a hostel, but only if you like the taste of tomato sauce.
  
• A Bechemel Sauce contains milk, flour, butter, an onion and a clove.
  
• New Years is much more enjoyable when you get New Years kisses (yes, I got new years kisses!!) :-)
  
• Gas flames can set your tea towel on fire.
  
• Many things will kill you, the point of life is to live, and not to worry about how/when you will die.
  
• Hostel seats are a great source of money after the rugby or the Simpsons.
  
• There is nothing funnier then watching 'staunch' guys crying over a rugby result.
  
• David Tua needs longer arms.
  
• Only Australians would put the Olympic Opening Ceremony on my 18th Birthday.
  
• It is possible to go 2 weeks without doing laundry before I run out of clothes.
  
• Receptionists know EVERYTHING, they are the be all and end all.
  
• Keep in touch with your parents.
  
• Catching up with people you haven't seen in a long time can be either painfully annoying and you realise WHY you haven't been in touch in a year, or you swear you'll keep in touch, even though you know you probably won't.
  
• Fantisising about killing your noisy teenybopper neighbour is nice, but calling night security means you get sleep.
  
• Reading instructions often saves frustration (except in the case of sewing patterns, which are written in another language entirely).
  
• When in doubt, have another beer.
  
• When in bed, stay there.
  
• Drinking Games + Scrumpy's = One of my most embarrassing moments.
  
• Being drunk when your 18 isn't as fun as being drunk before that.
  
• Anything can be purchased at the $2 Shop.