Happy New Year!!!

2007 just began. The sky is filled with spectacular fireworks. Most of the TV channels are telecasting music concerts. Is there a way to welcome the New Year better than welcoming it with good music and beautiful fireworks? TMF shows live pictures of a New Year party in ClubCam. Veronica shows a Robbie William concert. They showed live pictures from Amsterdam's Dam Square at mid night for a few minutes. I guess R and the guys are having a blast at Dam Square. Anouk is rocking hard in rtl5. She addresses the crowd in Dutch. Oh... She is from The Hague. I love her Tattoos. Net5 is telecasting some really wonderful concert songs. A huge crowd is counting down by the side of Thames in BBC. New Year begins an hour later there.

We wished each other Happy New Year. Chellax and Shinoj have gone for a walk. I am too tense to move around. I can see that the lane of Margarethaland is pretty alive. People from the blocks around are playing some great fireworks.

I was packing for most of the day. 'Wrestling' would be a more apt word to describe what I did. I think I would be paying money worth my ticket for the extra luggage I am carrying. That is, if I manage to check-in on time. I called up HTM and two other taxi services to book a cab by 4 AM. They all gave the same reply, "We don't take reservations for the New Year Day morning. Drivers are on vacation. Please give us a call an hour before your departure time. We will send a cab if a driver is available. But, we can't promise you anything. Sorry about that". Chauffeur Singh has given some hope. He said that he would send a 'Punjabi Ladka' to give me a ride to the airport in the early hours. I hope he keeps his word.

Wow! That was some firework they showed on BBC from the banks of the Thames. The Big Ben struck twelve and the London Eye glittered in the fantastic firework that followed. The spectacle went on for ten glorious minutes. Wow!

Happy 2007, folks!!! Let us continue to celebrate life in the new year.