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Happy Anniversary!

ArtYears is ‘One’ today. Off course, it has always been spelt as one-word, but what we mean to imply is that ArtYears is celebrating its First Anniversary this month. It also means that, the team has displayed its ‘oneness’ for a year now. So ‘Happy ArtYears’ if you’re reading this…

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The magic of the number ‘One’ has always fascinated me. It is to suggest that ‘One’ is exclusive. The ‘Numero Uno’. Only the ‘Best’, or rather, the ‘Best of the Best’. So, this month, the magic of the number ‘One’ touches us all. ArtYears is at its best now, as it celebrates its ‘Anniversary No 1’.

It is difficult to imagine that we could exist without the number ‘1’. If not for ‘One’, there would perhaps be no two, three, four and so on. It is to say that everything precedes the ‘First’. ‘The One’ is always at the top. In the race to the finish it is always the number ‘One’ that comes first. Unless off course, you are discussing that age-old joke that involves the feathered creature. Then you might ask, ‘Who came first; the chicken or the egg?’ I believe that if you put the chicken and the egg in a race, the chicken will always arrive first. Unless off course, the egg rolls faster.

Coming back to the Number ‘1’, it must be said that you cannot go very far without the ‘one’. Count your fingers …eight, nine, ten and you’re up to eleven with a couple of ‘ones’ again. It is something you cannot ignore for too long. You can possibly ignore, but cannot avoid.
You might suppose I’m harping on the lone ‘Single’ digit. I would say well, Yes & No. ‘Yes’ – I’m obsessed with the numeral & ‘No’ – I’m not given in to the drink. Not yet, atleast. However, ArtYears has touched a milestone and I plan to drink to that soon. So Cheers!

You can go on and on about the ‘No 1’, all the way to the ‘loo’ perhaps. Unless off course, if you are going in there for a ‘No 2’. Like they say, ‘when you gotta go, you gotta go’. I say chaps, ‘Lets go for the No 2’. The Second Anniversary, that is!

by felix Foo


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