New Years Eve
Every New Year’s Eve Sydney’s Lord Mayor takes over the city’s prime harbourside viewing area at the Opera House just so society’s self-serving elites can get their snouts in the trough, quaff free champagne and look down on the poor people below them.
I know this because after years of trying I finally got an invitation.
Last Saturday marked the first time I had ever managed to see the New Year’s Eve fireworks display up close without the water police involved. (This does not count the year that I thought I was watching the fireworks display but had actually just set the kitchen on fire.)
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I hardly ever keep my New Year’s Resolutions, including the last two, which were Don’t Make Any More New Year’s Resolutions and Don’t Write About Making Resolutions Around The End Of December. Even my Only Drink Stirred Martinis (Not Shaken) resolution looked a bit shaky around June, when I didn’t keep my eye on a barman that had a rebellious streak and a twitchy hand.
So I’ve decided that this year, I’m just making resolutions that are impossible to keep. That way, I figure by the end of the year I might have some kind of a record – 100 per cent of my resolutions broken. A real achievement.
Let’s see…
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Sarah says:
@Cam I second that! Read more »
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St. Michael says:
Or at least be more honest about it and publish stills from Kim Kardashian’s sex tape as the article photo. Kim Kardashian, rather unintentionally I think, summed herself up on her own show in metaphor: “I don’t mind being totally naked so long as I’m covered in diamonds and pearls.”… Read more »
Two thousand and twelve is a party away. Enjoy those final few cigarettes, that last packet of Tim Tams, that extra glass of wine, those lazy hours on the couch.
Revel in slouching, swearing, picking your nose and ignoring that old lady who needs help crossing the street. Behold the sum total of the vices your New Year’s resolutions will grab by the throat, tear limb from limb and consign to the bad habits of history.
For a day or two.
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Cate says:
A Pity Tim Tams aren’t Australian anymore. Happy new Year everyone. Anyone got any ideas to make it happy or at least bearable. Bagging pollies doesn’t do anything for me anymore. I want to be calm and peaceful. I guess I can do this free of charge without being taxed. … Read more »
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iansand says:
220 is sulphur dioxide. That may be your problem, but there are other things, such as tannins, present in red wine that are not found in white. I just checked a bottle of unwooded chardie in my fridge (I know - how naff and 5 years ago) and it has… Read more »
New Year’s Eve, it’s such a tempestuous event. Loved so passionately by many, hated by perhaps as many others. And indeed basically ignored by a fair portion too.
Underlying our conflicted emotions about NYE is the fact that it is the calendar equivalent of a cock-tease. The night that can promise so much and deliver so little.
Although I am not immune to it, I am still amused by the pressure the event seems to engender in many of us to be doing at least something, and if young and frisky to be doing something seriously cool, or at least something as good as all your friends, but preferably better.
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Al says:
Rudy, yes we can make al the important decisions like: To end our lives at a time of our choosing. To not buy into the myth that recycling paper helps the enviroment and choose not to recycle. To not have laws restricting the actions a person can take regarding their… Read more »
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stephen says:
It was a ‘shameless tease’. Now it’s a tameless sleaze ... and, l-l-loving it. Yahooo…... Read more »
Tonight, the City of Sydney will squeeze into its glad rags and put on the pyrotechnic razzle dazzle that has become the standard way to see in the New Year.
As always, event organisers have promised this year it’ll be bigger, bolder and with added bang for our $5 million bucks.
In recent years, they city’s grandiose flair for making stuff explode and decorating the Harbour Bridge has given Sydney a cocky strut.
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Zopo says:
When I tried to go home on NY night at 1:30am I literally scratched my head on how I was to get home. If there was a cab there were 50 people getting to it before I could, and if I found a cab there was a lot of arguments… Read more »
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Seano says:
@Jane - the same could quite easily and correctly be said about state and federal Liberals. Read more »
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