August 18, 2009 @ 5:43 pm
Over at Real Evergreen in New York City, you can now buy the 2010 New Years glasses that will undoubtedly be big sellers come the last few weeks in December.
As you may recall, 2009 was the last year that typical New Years glasses would be made because any year after 2010 would result in an odd shape for eye glasses. However, it looks like somebody has made the glasses with the “1″ anyway! The green ones on the left are decent and the silver ones on the right are atrocious.
Thanks Yun!
January 22, 2008 @ 5:36 pm
New Year’s Day is a few weeks behind us now, and I’m sure that by now you’ve been chugging along in 2008 like I have. Yeah?
Anyway, in continuation of my photos from Sydney, here are some pictures I took of the fireworks on the Sydney Harbor Bridge as the first few minutes of 2008 were celebrated by thousands of people along Sydney Harbor.
It was my first time in Sydney watching the fireworks and they were pretty amazing. Standing amidst a crowd of several thousand is a great way to spend New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Flo and I were able to witness first-hand a crowd fight between a drunken Irish man and a local and what it was like to stand in the SLOWEST MOVING LINE TO THE EXIT ever. Also, we both had a pretty good laugh at the hundreds of people unknowingly stepping into horse poo (from the police patrols) and then realizing it as they were already ankle-deep in it. It was the funniest thing ever watching this happen, and I can only hope that I’ll get another chance in the future to watch people unknowingly step into horse poo. Nothing is funnier, believe me.
The place was jam-packed with people literally shoulder-to-shoulder. And although I’ve never stood in Times Square for the New Year’s countdown, I reckon the experience in Sydney is very similar to it. Flo and I stood a few streets away from The Rocks (where most people go to see the fireworks) simply because there was no more room to stand. Our view wasn’t the best, but it was decent, and it gave us a good view of the fireworks in front of us AND behind us. In fact, towards the end of the show, fireworks were just going off in all directions around us. It was pretty spectacular.
Check inside to see some of my photos from the event.
