Trip Report: 2008-12-31 to 2009-01-04

Time: 2008-12-31 to 2009-01-04
Reason: New Year's Eve, Ringing in the New Year, Hanging
Location: New York City, Ajay's Parents' House
Attendees: Ajay, Alex, Azim, Fu, Jack, Zhi
Activities: Drinking, Eating, Golf Simulator, Video Games

Notes:
- Thanks to Ajay for putting this together last minute and hosting us at his parents' house
- Props to Azim for coming up with the idea of an impromptu NYE celebration
- Props to Jack for booking Aureole and Ajay for finding John's Pizzeria
- Props to the Jew for bringing those bottles of wine
- The next time Jack says "jacket preferred", I'm going to take that to mean, "fuck off, Jack"
- I'm never drinking again
- The golf simulator was 'wicked' fun, as the Jew would say
- Fu, I've never seen someone puke so much, so violently my entire life
- NYC is pretty awesome. Where else could we stay out until dawn every night of the week?
- Apparently I had a cigarette. My first in over a year. Again, never drinking again
- Azim: S Bar. Hit that! Then let us know how it was!
- The photos from this trip I sent to you via email. I hesitate to post the URLs of the photo server to public places, and I recommend you are also careful with that.

Future Plans:
- So pretty much Chicago is decided for this summer, probably also around Independence Day (a Saturday in 2009). There was also interest in going to Denver in April for the Jew's birthday.
- I think a point was made that while many places would be cool to go, for now, because of everyone's budgetary and time constraints, we'd have to pick places that are feasible for 3-5 days, with some local affinity (i.e. someone knows it well enough to lead and plan), and also having a place to stay for free or cheap is a huge plus.

General Observations:
- Can we try to not average 1.5 fights per day whenever we all get together? I know I'm probably the cause of many of these, and I'll try and keep that in mind, but it just seems like every time we all get together, some subset of us end up getting into a shit-fest over really dumb shit.
- Destination Dining should not be a huge part of our plans because it's not everyone's cup-o-tea. Let's build more flexibility into future plans so that people can do what they want a little more freely.

At some point, I may want to flush out this writing from the current crappy bullet point format, but I'm too lazy right now. Any of you could also do this, so please feel free.

Anyone else want to add something? You can all either edit the post or make a comment. Alright, I'm out.