Haha... but look what C. managed to smuggle into the area ...
He managed to smuggle in 4 bottles of hard liquor and 2 bottles of champagne. Well, these are some of the people I made friends with during the countdown. Met up with a New Yorker, a Dutch and 2 Australians (Tasmania)! Their company made the countdown really fun!
This is my view at Times Square. I was really in a good spot with the ball drop in front of me and the stage behind. I was really in the heart of it all!
It came to a point when they started to throw out official goodie bags and I caught one! I was really so happy with it. I just jumped as high as I could and held tightly to a packet once I touched one. This is what was inside the bags ...
I was there like 8 hours before the countdown itself. Can you imagine having to squeeze with everyone for that long? That was the longest time I ever stood at a single spot. Anyway, during that period, every hour was something which we could look foreward to as we countdown for a particular country crossing their new year. So I actually had 8 countdowns......
What was really memorable, were all the confetti which fell on us at every hour. Can you imagine experiencing heavy rain of confetti?
As we approached midnight, there was a sense of excitment. The atmosphere was really electrifying
And at midnight, we popped the 2 bottles of champagne and shared it with everyone around us... It was really fun as we just hugged each other and wished everyone a Happy New Year! It was really amazing that we just hugged anybody!
This is the aftermath of Times Square ...
Happy New Year everyone!!!
