No one can be that shallow! Can they?

On the way to the wine cellar

If you are not young, in love or have a family, then the holiday season does not have much installed for you. All the festivities and activities are centred on being one of or all of those things and it is thoroughly annoying, especially now, when New Year’s Eve celebrations are formulating.

There is a general consensus that you must do something for NYE. It is portrayed in the media with footage of booming crowds enjoying themselves or of young people congregating menacingly enjoying themselves or of families together, enjoying themselves. Parties all seem to have a limit of two tickets per booking or a minimum reservation for two at all the top restaurants. You also see it the magazines with the latest ads for Moet and Chandon proclaiming it is time to “Be faboulous.” Whatever it is, doing anything by yourself just doesn’t happen successfully this time of the year or when you tell people you have no plans, they empathetically reply “You’ll find something.”

But I don’t want to find something. 2005 has been an exhausting year for me and now, I just want to relax and enjoy what is left of it. Many dreams have been realised in the year, many places unseen are now familiar to me, many upheavals and downheavals and now, many shopping trips to Louis Vuitton where I do not walk out empty handed.

So for the next few days, I am going to spend it working out my 2006. The things I want to achieve, the places I want to be and generally working out how I want to live out the year. I am even going to prepare a budget using my new Louis Vuitton organiser.

And if that doesn’t keep me busy until all the fanfare has died down, I have a bottle of chilled sparkling wine with the fabulous amber liquid serendipitously bubbling away in my flute to keep me company and more in the fridge for the rest of the holidays. Who knows, maybe this time next year with my careful budgeting I’ll have the Karl Lagerfeld Dom Perignon 1998 vintage instead.

Have a safe holiday for 2006 promises to be better, more successful and more enjoyable. And I should know because the wine told me so.

posted by tykang @ 12/30/2005 09:41:00 PM