Today is the absolute last day of the year. I look out of the window of my office and see strips of white cloud marching across the blue sky towards the west. It is quieter than usual all around. It appears the few poeple who haven't gone vacationing out of the city must be in thier homes still, yet to hit the streets with friends and family to celebrate the New Year's Eve. And there would be a very few others like me who are at work!
The evening is going to be different though. The beatifully decked up streets are going to light up. There would be crowds of jubilant people in colourful dresses at the cafes, in the malls, at the parks, and outside every restaurant jostling to make the last-minute reservations. There would be music, and fireworks, and food and drink, and cheer and confetti everywhere to usher in the New Year. There would be hundreds of thousands of phone calls made to wish good luck and good cheer to the loved ones.The celebration would be big and loud, and gorgeous, and will go on through the night, and around the world. When I wake up in the morning, I would love to see the pictures from London and Sydney, and Moscow, and New York, and Vienna everywhere else about their celebrations.
For tonight, my wife and I will have dinner at a Thai restaurant along with a friend. We have luckily got the reservations made. We will then greet our other friends, go for a drive around the city, cheer for a while with the revellers, and get back home.
And I will probably play ABBA's Happy New Year just before going to bed!
The evening is going to be different though. The beatifully decked up streets are going to light up. There would be crowds of jubilant people in colourful dresses at the cafes, in the malls, at the parks, and outside every restaurant jostling to make the last-minute reservations. There would be music, and fireworks, and food and drink, and cheer and confetti everywhere to usher in the New Year. There would be hundreds of thousands of phone calls made to wish good luck and good cheer to the loved ones.The celebration would be big and loud, and gorgeous, and will go on through the night, and around the world. When I wake up in the morning, I would love to see the pictures from London and Sydney, and Moscow, and New York, and Vienna everywhere else about their celebrations.
For tonight, my wife and I will have dinner at a Thai restaurant along with a friend. We have luckily got the reservations made. We will then greet our other friends, go for a drive around the city, cheer for a while with the revellers, and get back home.
And I will probably play ABBA's Happy New Year just before going to bed!
