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Taking off my watch on New Year's Eve

posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 02:02 PM

I am not a big fan of New Year’s Eve. As a boy in Northern Ireland growing up on a farm many miles from the nearest town, the turn of the year was spent watching Scottish people getting pissed on television whilst I and my sister sat feeling we should be enjoying ourselves but really we were bored to tears.

Surely now living in London it must be better. Well, not really. I used to go to parties or even to clubs but it inevitably meant very expensive champagne, costly clubs and the drudgery of a crammed night bus home.

Actually the best New Year I have had was 35,000 feet above somewhere in the Middle East on my way to Bangkok. Why? With the changing time zones, I never even knew when the actual New Year had arrived.

Don’t get me wrong. I do like to party. But there is something about New Year’s Eve that I dislike. Maybe it is the “what have I achieved this past year” which can throw up mixed feelings. Or “what is in store for the year ahead” may be clouded in uncertainty. But most of all, I don’t like the ‘expectation’ that you surely must be enjoying yourself because it’s the New Year; it is almost like you are forced to enjoy yourself and hence it is almost certain to be a big anti-climax.

So...herein lies the secret of getting through the New Year – act like it has not happened. How?
Step 1 – cook a nice dinner with your friend or lover;
Step 2 – drink lots of vino;
Step 3 – put on a favourite movie around 11pm;
Step 4 - take off your watch and you will miss the whole thing.

Perfect!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Comments

Barry Crisp

Monday, January 05, 2009 12:13 PM

Haha... nice! Happy New Year to you too!

Christian Debono

Wednesday, January 07, 2009 03:17 PM

hehe I wish I was like you man :P I still give lots of importance to my new year's eve...Spent it on a bridge this year in Heidelberg, a town in Germany..and than going around a bunch of bars with some newly made friends hehe But when there is good company and wine its always a good celebration ;)

Tommy Hutchinson

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:58 PM

Happy New year my friends and hey Christian, Heidelberg is a lovely place; i once went there whilst inter-railing around Europe. I can't remember it having a bridge though but maybe i was zipping too much wine when i was there. ^^

Philip Daoud

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 05:35 PM

Happy New Year to you and everybody at I-Genius ... I'll try your tip next year and see if it works !

Tommy Hutchinson

Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:09 AM

haha Philip; i sense some shared desperation lol Happy New Year and i will be in touch soon.

Christian Debono

Thursday, January 15, 2009 01:54 PM

hehe I was also interailing Tom :) and yes it has more than one bridge and a lovely castle which has a huge wine barrel! :)