2005 A Year In Review

2005 was one of the most exciting years for me. Not only did I turn 25 and can now easily hire a rental car but I moved out of Ashfield for an inner city apartment. I will not list in point form major events that happened to me during 2005 as I know I will forget what a great year this was. I'm a little hazy before August as my blog entries from OCt 04 - August 05 were deleted.

• Moved to Chippendale and finally out of Ashfield. I don't miss the trains.
  
• Attended Andy's wedding in Indonesia .
  
• Soap moved into our own office in Ultimo deciding to purchase rather than rent after securing the deposit and a good position to continue our empire :)
  
• Soap went from a staff of 6 to 11 with a few leaving or being asked to leave in between. Right now we have a very strong team with no "dead wood". Two more staff to join in January 2006
  
• Attended the 2005 ARIA awards and got within 10mtrs of The Hoff
  
• I was asked to be on the jury for D&AD 2006. Graciously accepted :)
  
• Moved to a PC laptop after 7 years of MAC worship. I miss expose and that's about it.
  
• Bought a PSP
  
• Did a talk at Wagga Wagga on the importance of personal work/experimentation and your career.
  
• Had my first viral photo with The Fly getting over 80,000 views in a month.
  
• Had my blog deleted by my host in the USA. After 5 years he decided to do a runner with everyone's money and delete my files. That's why there is a 10 fucking month gap in my archives!
  
• Started www.bannerblog.com.au which is just now reaching it's stride. The initial site was also deleted by the crazy web host in the USA.
  
• Moved over to wearing underpants full time after many years of wearing boxers.
• Soap won awards at Desktop Create Awards, AWARD, Internet Awards and was in the interactive annual for Communication Arts & D&AD.
  
• Cashed in my years of Subway Stamps
  
• Was nearly beaten up coming out of my favorite restaurant in Canterbury. Yay for the police.
  
• Got back from my long trip in Indonesia during which the Tsunami hit (the other side of Indo luckily)
  
• Visited Melbourne, Perth, Wagga Wagga, Singapore as well as Indonesia twice
  
• Almost converted to Muslim. That's top of my list for 2006
  
• Attended an Easter Royal show, Crusty Demons X, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and Auto Salon and didn't hate them both. Although I don;t plan on ever going to one again.
  
• Got violently sick from some dodgy food court food. Vomited on the bathroom marble that actually left a permanent mark on the marble!
  
• Attended the launch of the new A-League (Australian soccer league)
  
• I paid for less than half of the movies I saw this year. By having Fox as a client and also a friend who is the security guard at George St cinemas I managed to save a heap on cinema tickets. A big thanks to Julian and Fred!
  
• Saw Into the Blue, Night Watch and In Her Shoes at the Fox Studios private screening room
  
• Missed the media premier of Star Wars as I directed the guys to the wrong cinema!!! Saw it at the premier 11 days later.
  
• Saw Mr & Mrs Smith and Fantastic Four at the media premier at George St. Margaret and David Stratton don't sit next to each other.
  
• Stayed at level 68 at World Tower in Sydney.
  
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