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DECEMBER 28: So it's something BEEEGGGGG!! WOW.... a MILLENIUM New Year... yippeee!!!! All the jolly balloons filling the skies yikes, t...

DECEMBER 28: So it8217;s something BEEEGGGGG!! WOW8230;. a MILLENIUM New Year8230; yippeee!!!! All the jolly balloons filling the skies yikes, the firecrackers ready to burst, the sweets lined up, the bashes being tailored to perfection, the money running out of pockets8230; happ-a-happ-a-happily8230;

Bashes. The same DJs, the same music, the same food, the same booze, the same black minis and tattoos, the same coloured hair and the same ooohhh-I-am-partying crowd8230; SO WHAT8217;S NEW?

Nothing. Just that for the same bash that I8217;d been to last year and shelled out 300 bucks, I8217;ll have to drain my pockets of 3000 bucks this year! ABC newspaper called up all the celebs of the city and found out what a New Millenium means to them, what they8217;re doing on the The Evening Of The Millenium8217;, on what are their resolutions for the New Millenium and blah, blah, blah8230;

They8217;ve been doing that for the past so many years now, it8217;s just that the word millenium8217; has replaced the word year8217; that I can even spew out a certain celebrity8217;s New Year plans in my sleep. Yawn.

Voting for the Persons of the Millenium, a checklist of who8217;s been who and who is who on this planet, more people, felicitations, awards and as usual all those who can, are cashing in on the hype.

Phew! I wonder what New Year8217;s eve is going to be like for all those people who are waiting on us at parties, handling the lights and systems, holding the gates, and such stuff, while we have a blast at bashes. Well, maybe they8217;re just gonna make a lot more money while the going8217;s good.

And what about the cyber-professionals who are going to spend time with their darling PCs and systems to monitor any glitches in the context of that magical word 8211; Y2K? I wonder what the Millenium New Year8217; is going to be for the cyclone victims of Orissa, while all of the world becomes one big happy family and goes to parties and has fun and does all the jolly things.

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All in the name of the New Millenium8217;. And only to live through January 1, 2000 in a sleepy, drunken haze with headaches from hangovers, and all sapped out after the intense dhamaka. Sounds like fun.

And if all of you out there wanna argue with me saying how many of us get to live through a millenium change? Well, did anyone ever stop to think it8217;s the next year that8217;s the millenium year, actually, which means December 31st 2000 is when 8220;it8217;s something BEEEEGG8221;? Oops, I hope Dec 31st, 2000 doesn8217;t see a rerun of this year8217;s madness8230; Mercy!