New Year's Eve. The task is easy: go to Double Six club and dance the night away.
Two couples decide to go before midnight.
One couple stays back, deciding that the countdown should be somewhere quieter.
Half an hour before midnight, Mother Nature decides it should be raining.
It begins to drizzle.
The couple who stays back decide it's high time they ditch the restaurant and walk to the club now, before the rain stops them.
Not two feet away, the drizzle turns to storm.
Hard, unforgiving storm.
The couple who stays back has to run for the nearest building, which happens to be a car park of a newly-built apartment. And they wait. And they wait. The other couples send them short messages: get over here quick the crowd is crazy.
And they wait. And the clock strikes twelve. And it's new year. And it's still raining cats and dogs. And they are in a car park. And they wait. And they feel like the last team to arrive at The Amazing Race.
One simple decision decides all.
One simple change in nature changes all.
A good reminder for us mortals: nobody controls anything.
So take it easy. Do everything. Expect nothing.
And remember, there's alway
s antidotes for almost everything.
A magnificent first sunset of 2008, at Kudeta, more than makes it up for the car park countdown.
Cheers for another big year.
Two couples decide to go before midnight.
One couple stays back, deciding that the countdown should be somewhere quieter.
Half an hour before midnight, Mother Nature decides it should be raining.
It begins to drizzle.
The couple who stays back decide it's high time they ditch the restaurant and walk to the club now, before the rain stops them.
Not two feet away, the drizzle turns to storm.
Hard, unforgiving storm.
The couple who stays back has to run for the nearest building, which happens to be a car park of a newly-built apartment. And they wait. And they wait. The other couples send them short messages: get over here quick the crowd is crazy.
And they wait. And the clock strikes twelve. And it's new year. And it's still raining cats and dogs. And they are in a car park. And they wait. And they feel like the last team to arrive at The Amazing Race.
One simple decision decides all.
One simple change in nature changes all.
A good reminder for us mortals: nobody controls anything.
So take it easy. Do everything. Expect nothing.
And remember, there's alway
s antidotes for almost everything.A magnificent first sunset of 2008, at Kudeta, more than makes it up for the car park countdown.
Cheers for another big year.
