NYE 2009

Happy new year y'all! May all your new year's resolutions come true in the next 365 days. Whether you're trying to shed weight or your smoking habit, don't procrastinate! Go hit the gym and throw away your last pack of smokes today. Statistics show after the first week of the new year, you are 25% less likely to fulfill your resolution. After 6 months, you only have a 40% chance of success! Having said that, if you did make a resolution, you are 10 times more likely to attain your goal(s) than someone who didn't make one.

To celebrate the new year but more importantly, to say good riddance to the financially dreadful 2008, Tao and I had dinner with good friends at a french restaurant called Le Petit Paris at the International Finance Centre (IFC). The second tower, dubbed as IFC 2 is currently the tallest building in Hong Kong. It's as tall as the former Twin Towers in NYC. In The Dark Night, Batman jumped from this building to get the bad guys.



This is a photo of the IFC from a walking bridge. The view is slightly obstructed. The fireworks were shot off from the building in different directions. I was only able to get the bottom half of the building. The "200" is missing, leaving just the "9". I initially thought the countdown was stuck at 9 =)


Here's the entire fireworks show


Thousands crowded onto the piers to check out the fireworks. Everyone had their cameras set up on tripods to take the perfect shot. Though not as crowded as Time Square in NY, it's quite a spectacle. BUT not at all like new years celebrations in the states, the fireworks only lasted a few minutes! Chinese New Year is supposed to have a much better firework show since that's the official new year to the Chinese. This is a picture of a concert next to the walking bridge.


Dinner at Le Petit Paris with our good friends.


After dinner, we hit up a few trendy lounges/bars in Lan Kwai Fong (LKF), where everyone parties in HK. Only being here for less than a month, it's pretty much played out. There's only a few popular spots to hit up here. Same scene, same people. The advantage is that they are all walking distance apart.

We took the relatively quiet street to avoid the masses.


I took a quick 15 second nap at a lounge before finishing the night at 6am. I haven't partied this long since NYE 2000 at Limelight in NYC with my friends, Nick and Jerome.