People get into the feel and spirit of New Year from the New Year’s eve itself and you must have noticed what a supremely festive atmosphere prevails everywhere at this time ! The day before the New Year’s Day, December 31, is famously celebrated as the New Year’s eve, when New Year revelers set out to party with friends and dear ones, join in the elaborate New Year parades wearing colorful masks, tooting and making whoopie to scare away the evil spirits. It’s sheer fun watching the wonderful celebrations everywhere !
New Year parties are held in hotels, restaurants, public squares or sometimes even privately. There’s a lot of food, drinks and noise everywhere. Some people even stay glued to their television sets to keep a tab on the New Year’s eve celebrations. If you feature in this group and prefer to stay indoors, you can have as much of a gay time watching the popular Tournament of Roses or the Rose Bowl football. But for those who want to venture out, you just got to be game for all the fun and frenzy stacked up for the New Year’s eve because it’s gonna be a night totally out on the tiles !
Countdown to the New Year begins from the New Year’s eve and if you’re at New York city on New Year’s eve, you’re sure to have an experience of a lifetime ! It’s a grand sight watching the ‘ball drop’ at Times Square, NY. At one minute before the clock strikes 12, a glowing ball slowly drops from the top to the bottom of a mast on one of the buildings at Times Square. It’s synchronized such that the moment the lighted ball touches the base, the two hands of the clock are together, the clock strikes midnight and the New Year sign is set aglow ! Dazzling fireworks light up the night-sky and people hug and wish each other ‘Happy New Year’. It is also common to kiss your loved ones at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s eve. In London, the centre of excitement is the Trafalgar Square, where New Year revelers gather to welcome the New Year hand in hand with zealous shouts, bubbling champagne and bright fireworks. However, New Year celebrations sometimes get rowdy and run out of hand when people turn boisterous, disregarding the parameters of enjoyment and limits of decency. So see that the celebrations don’t go into a flat spin as you party and celebrate the baby year with your friends, sweetheart or family !
Although there’s this common spirit of festivity and merrymaking everywhere, New Year celebrations are not really the same at all places. There are slight variations if you give a closer look. For instance, people watch the Orange Bowl game in Florida, people in Texas has the Cotton Bowl to watch in their plan of action, in Denmark New Year revelers go banging on their friends’ doors to smash in the joys of a prosperous year ahead, the Japanese celebrate with dances moving from house to house, drumming and rattling and making outlandish noises, the Vietnamese, Hawaiians and South Americans mainly rejoice with fireworks on New Year…so on and so forth.
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