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Maybe it's just me, . But does anybody else find New Years Eve just slightly depressing?
yes i agree! maybe its the thought that although the crowds tend to be so much easier to entertain than normal you have to play teice as long!! grrr but for more money yay
im not liking the idea of 2004 that means im 20 soon and i dont like the sound of that at all, i am but young lad i know but i feel im getting old. And im getting hair in funny places help lol
im not liking the idea of 2004 that means im 20 soon and i dont like the sound of that at all, i am but young lad i know but i feel im getting old. And im getting hair in funny places help lol
Depressing!?!
No way, New Years Eve is always a great laugh.
Things are only depressing when you take em too seriously!
Lighten up, enjoy your life
No way, New Years Eve is always a great laugh.
Things are only depressing when you take em too seriously!
Lighten up, enjoy your life
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| Lighten up, enjoy your life |
Maybe I just tend to dwell on things too much...oh well
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| im not liking the idea of 2004 that means im 20 soon and i dont like the sound of that at all |
20!...20!...Your still just a whippersnapper! - trust me 30 is far worse
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Thats puberty for you
| QUOTE (DJshaggy @ Dec 28 2003, 11:28 PM) |
| im not liking the idea of 2004 that means im 20 soon and i dont like the sound of that at all, i am but young lad i know but i feel im getting old. And im getting hair in funny places help lol |
id love to be 20 again you lucky git .
as far as for new years eve i dont mind it really as most newyears eves ive had while not djs have not been that much better that a normal night out and with the money i eard for n/y i can go out for a couple of months with. the only sad time is at midnight when everybody is kissing and i have nobody to kiss
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| im not liking the idea of 2004 that means im 20 soon and i dont like the sound of that at all |
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| i am but young lad i know but i feel im getting old. And im getting hair in funny places help lol |
That'll be puberty shaggy...
(except Chris had just said that 
) (OH NO, I have the same sick sense of humour as a "MOOG"!! Argghhhhhh
- Chris)
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| Maybe I just tend to dwell on things too much...oh well |
Precisely the problem most worriers have.
The day that someone can prove to me how worrying over a problem is gonna solve the problem will be the day I start worrying!
Worrying about things doesn't solve a thing all it does is get you down.
Maybe I'm just lucky but I never worry about anything; don't get me wrong that's not saying I never have problems. Everyone has problems in their lives at various points but I just try to work out the best possible solution to the problem rather than letting it get me down... I can't see the point in that
The vast majority of people in this country don't have any REAL problems. Think about the poor souls living in some of the drought stricken poverty ridden area's of parts of africa? They have REAL problems, or living in war zones such as Iraq, Palestine etc where you could get shot or blown up at any moment that's REAL problems. Having a disability that restricts your freedom to live what is considered a normal life such as blindness, or having no arms, being mentally disabled etc these are REAL problems and yet look at how many people with these disabilities do such inspirational things and are determined to go about their lives as normally as possible and enjoy themselves, Hugs on this forum being a prime example.
Being born healthy and in a country such as England we should all count ourselves extremely lucky and make the most of what we've been given rather than moping around feeling sorry for ourselves and coveting other people lives, possessions etc.
Go to your local salvation army, or AIDS shelter, or home for mentally disturbed children etc... then you're own problems will pale into insignificance!
In the meantime.... enjoy your yourselves... it's easy, all you have to do is smile
things are rarely as bad as they seem 
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| the only sad time is at midnight when everybody is kissing and i have nobody to kiss |
Sounds like a job for Gilbz....... oh, emm - sorry! Wrong forum 
Okay point taken. Maybe i'll try and be more cheerful this year. Ignore me, i'm just going through the Xmas self pity stage.
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Hugs...oh i see "Hugmaster", I thought i'd missed out on some mass bonding session here on the forum, with Paula and Karen giving away Xmas Hugs!.
Yes your right Hugmaster is an inspiration.
Yeah but having said all that Eskie (and well put it all was too) everyone owes it to themselves to be honest about what makes them feel down.
Burying everything under the theory that there is 'always somebody worse off' is all well and good but if you deny your true feeling for too long in this way.... depression is often just around the corner.
Everything is relative to each individual and everyone is unique. I know I sound a bit 'new age' but if Chris or anyone felt motivated enough to say NYE is a touch depressing, he is using it as a release.
I bottled many things up, a few years ago, and was 'strong' for others around me for way too long - it just got too much and I had to go a specialist for help. Fine now (very lighthearted in fact) but it don't do to bottle it
Think I've had one of my sincere turns again
Burying everything under the theory that there is 'always somebody worse off' is all well and good but if you deny your true feeling for too long in this way.... depression is often just around the corner.
Everything is relative to each individual and everyone is unique. I know I sound a bit 'new age' but if Chris or anyone felt motivated enough to say NYE is a touch depressing, he is using it as a release.
I bottled many things up, a few years ago, and was 'strong' for others around me for way too long - it just got too much and I had to go a specialist for help. Fine now (very lighthearted in fact) but it don't do to bottle it
Think I've had one of my sincere turns again
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| The vast majority of people in this country don't have any REAL problems. Think about the poor souls living in some of the drought stricken poverty ridden area's of parts of africa? |
Yes
and yes
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| but it don't do to bottle it |
Some really good points everybody deals with stuff in different way and im sure we can all learn a lot from each other.
Wow another good post, and yes Moogie am I that transparent???.
I admit I was using this post / forum as a "test" to see whether it was just me dwelling on things, or something that other D.J's could relate to - maybe on the working side. i.e Why am I sober and working and others are Pi$$ed - true for D.J's its by choice but there always as to be 1 driver
You'd be surprised at how many people don't enjoy this time of year, and have triggers from the past which make them dread Xmas and New Year and have their reasons for doing so - myself included.
I do strongly agree with Eskie that we should be considering other people who are far worse off than ourselves will ever be and those spending Xmas alone or in fear.
However, I can speak from experience that xmas isn't always the joyous occasion that some people tend to enjoy and welcome, and Moog has also made some points that I can identify with.
I admit I was using this post / forum as a "test" to see whether it was just me dwelling on things, or something that other D.J's could relate to - maybe on the working side. i.e Why am I sober and working and others are Pi$$ed - true for D.J's its by choice but there always as to be 1 driver
You'd be surprised at how many people don't enjoy this time of year, and have triggers from the past which make them dread Xmas and New Year and have their reasons for doing so - myself included.
I do strongly agree with Eskie that we should be considering other people who are far worse off than ourselves will ever be and those spending Xmas alone or in fear.
However, I can speak from experience that xmas isn't always the joyous occasion that some people tend to enjoy and welcome, and Moog has also made some points that I can identify with.
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| Maybe it's just me, . But does anybody else find New Years Eve just slightly depressing? |
Crispy, your such a misery 
I'm looking forward to NYE, cause me ant just ending another year I'm ending a right old whatcha call it!
Chapter! 
and what better way to celebrate than on NYE Party Party
( will make sure I dont need stomach pumped this year) Chrispy........CHILL
| QUOTE (The Moog @ Dec 28 2003, 11:14 PM) |
| Burying everything under the theory that there is 'always somebody worse off' is all well and good but if you deny your true feeling for too long in this way.... depression is often just around the corner. |
True, but I wasn't saying that people should simply feel better cos others are worse off. I'm saying that everyone does have a lot to live for no matter how bad things may seem. I completely agree that bottling it up ain't gonna work in the longterm, but rather than bottling it up or moping about the problem, (either by yourself or with someone who you can talk to that will give good honest advice) work out a solution to the issue.
That solution could be really simple and achieved in a few steps in a short space of time or it could be very lengthy and involve a lot of struggle, sacrifices etc but deal with it/face it rather than ONLY worrying about it!
By attempting to work out a solution rather than simply fretting over the issue, you'll feel better about yourself and you can get on with living your life and enjoying all that life has to offer... even when you get kicked in the teeth!
| QUOTE (Eskie @ Dec 29 2003, 12:37 AM) |
| That solution could be really simple and achieved in a few steps in a short space of time or it could be very lengthy and involve a lot of struggle, sacrifices etc but deal with it/face it rather than ONLY worrying about it! |
I agree that most things do have a solution but not everything can be solved and sometimes you just have to accept that a few things in life will get ya down
Howdy
Wow, I don't think I've ever been referred to as an inspiration before, got a warm glow going here...
Seriously though folks.
I used to get a bit glum new year's eve, especially when DJing...then suddenly it struck me...
I started DJing cause I was fed up of going to parties and being the blind guy stuck in a corner with patronising friends and relatives coming and patting me on the head and asking my mum if I took sugar? You know what I mean.
Now I get paid to go to parties and I'm not stuck in a corner, I'm centrestage giving these folks one hell of a ride...and I get paid to do it...it's like a licence to print money!
It would be very easy to get boggd down in my disability and all the limitations it imposes on me. However, all the complaining and howling won't alter it, so what's the point.
"spend five minutes complaining and you've just wasted five," Jim Rohn.
Worry and depression can be likened to a dog that's trying to drive you into a corner, the trick is trying to drive it into a corner.
I run the risk of going off on one here so I'll stop.
Darren
Wow, I don't think I've ever been referred to as an inspiration before, got a warm glow going here...
Seriously though folks.
I used to get a bit glum new year's eve, especially when DJing...then suddenly it struck me...
I started DJing cause I was fed up of going to parties and being the blind guy stuck in a corner with patronising friends and relatives coming and patting me on the head and asking my mum if I took sugar? You know what I mean.
Now I get paid to go to parties and I'm not stuck in a corner, I'm centrestage giving these folks one hell of a ride...and I get paid to do it...it's like a licence to print money!
It would be very easy to get boggd down in my disability and all the limitations it imposes on me. However, all the complaining and howling won't alter it, so what's the point.
"spend five minutes complaining and you've just wasted five," Jim Rohn.
Worry and depression can be likened to a dog that's trying to drive you into a corner, the trick is trying to drive it into a corner.
I run the risk of going off on one here so I'll stop.
Darren
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Thats positive already Mr P! mind you the git aint got a video of you has he!
Its true what he says though and personaly i dont like working New Years Eve so i dont work em !I stay home and have fun instead!
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| mind you the git aint got a video of you has he! |
That reminds me....can we get a few minutes preview of this converted into MPEG / AVI and uploaded to an over 18's area of the forum???
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Well that may be true during the last week or so, and I make no secret of the fact that i'll be glad when Jan 2nd rolls around and things can start getting back to normal
. I can't turn back the clock and change anything thats happened in the past, or cancel NYE, so I suppose i'd better make the best of it!.
New Years Eve is a fresh start or/and a door closing on the old year. It is quite a symbolic event to many. For us DJs it means, as Chris has said, the New Year is a return to normality. We work far too hard in December (I for one, could never keep that pace up over a full 12 months - 27 gigs in December up until Christmas Eve for me 
) and for many, NYE is a release from that seasonal routine. It can be quite a melancholy experience - glad it's all over but sad to see it go - a paradox! I think we mentally tune ourselves into the December madness really.
I could be really miserable and mis-quote Pink Floyd on the subject of the New Year - "Shorter of breath and one year closer to death." - but that is too bloody morbid
Personally, I love NYE It's the one gig where I really get into the party as much as the punters 
.... and if they aren't playing, 
'em, I'm having fun!!! (never had a bad one yet though... has anyone???)
) and for many, NYE is a release from that seasonal routine. It can be quite a melancholy experience - glad it's all over but sad to see it go - a paradox! I think we mentally tune ourselves into the December madness really. I could be really miserable and mis-quote Pink Floyd on the subject of the New Year - "Shorter of breath and one year closer to death." - but that is too bloody morbid
Personally, I love NYE
It's the one gig where I really get into the party as much as the punters .... and if they aren't playing, 'em, I'm having fun!!! (never had a bad one yet though... has anyone???)
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Yes, but only 1...thankfully. I think it was 95/96, It was at a country pub in the middle of nowhere. We turned up and the place was empty...not a single car on this huge car park and only the landlord inside, not even bar or waiting on staff...maybe we should have heeded the signs, pretended we needed directions and just driven off!!!.
We set up, and by 11PM a grand total of 7 people were sat at the bar
. Oh well 7 was better than none. However this one group of people left at 11.15 in order to drive to a party in the next town.Yes, we celebrated the New Year with just the landlord
and were packing up at 12.05.This year should be interesting, a Disco - Karaoke so we may need to fly Paula in by helicoptor!. Not the busiest pub in the world, but shouldn't be as bad as the above
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| This year should be interesting, a Disco - Karaoke so we may need to fly Paula in by helicoptor! |
Damn! And I'm feerryin all the other dj's about this year
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Hmm, no, but yes, but no!
Every gig I've ever done on NYE has been a great laugh, but there was 1 year around mid-90's when I was working in Jakarta which was 'different'!
Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia. Indonesia is largly a moslem country. The Moslem holy month is called Ramadan but unlike Christmas it's not the same date every year it all depends on the moon and tends to be a couple of weeks earlier each year and the exact date of the last day of Ramadam is never known until a few days beforehand!
The reason for mentioning all this is cos on the last day of Ramadam in Indonesia and most middle eastern countries all the restaurants, bars & clubs have to close
This one particular year Ramadan was gonna finish around early Jan or late Dec. We were all praying it wouldn't be NYE but no one could be sure until very late Dec. I'd been offered a very juicy repeat gig of the one that I'd done the previous NYE which was loads of dosh, easy gig and loads of mates there. On Boxing day I was told that the last day of Ramadam was gonna fall on NYE and so the gig was cancelled and so for the firstime since I was 16 I wasn't gonna be working on NYE. Great I thought; I can party
...till the realisation suddenly hit me..... every bar & club was closed so there'd be nowhere to go 
In the end though all was well cos one of my mates who had a huge house had a private party for a load of the ex-pats and we ended up having a blast
hi guys.
hugmaster, i too am disabled.
i have a form of autism.
looking back at myself in the past and looking at myself now are two completely different experiences.
in the past i used to dread going to discos due to the large ammount of people and the loud music.
i was forced to attend the school discos at christmas time, being a kid, and i can remember myself siting on the floor in the corner plugging my ears with my hands, screaming at the teachers for the DJ to turn the music down.
I had such sensative hearing that i would jump sky high at the sound of a tape recorder.
but now, this is all different.
i have identified my limits and know how far i can go before backing off a bit.
working at the theater and my brothers playing lound level music has trained me into tolerating high levels of sound.
this new year, with the disco buisness about to be launched, i hope will be a point of change for the best.
i look forward to be out there behind the dj equipment, giving people a hell of a time.
so ... im generally looking forward to things in the future with the disco buisness, and also some unpleasent experiences i have had this year, that i would not mind saying goodbye to.
happy new year all.
hugmaster, i too am disabled.
i have a form of autism.
looking back at myself in the past and looking at myself now are two completely different experiences.
in the past i used to dread going to discos due to the large ammount of people and the loud music.
i was forced to attend the school discos at christmas time, being a kid, and i can remember myself siting on the floor in the corner plugging my ears with my hands, screaming at the teachers for the DJ to turn the music down.
I had such sensative hearing that i would jump sky high at the sound of a tape recorder.
but now, this is all different.
i have identified my limits and know how far i can go before backing off a bit.
working at the theater and my brothers playing lound level music has trained me into tolerating high levels of sound.
this new year, with the disco buisness about to be launched, i hope will be a point of change for the best.
i look forward to be out there behind the dj equipment, giving people a hell of a time.
so ... im generally looking forward to things in the future with the disco buisness, and also some unpleasent experiences i have had this year, that i would not mind saying goodbye to.
happy new year all.
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