My New Year resolution was to enter a year without complaining looks like I have broken it in a couple of hours into the New Year.
I came across an article in The Times of India (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Chennai/While_parents_party_kids_do_too/articleshow/3911595.cms) that a couple of places in Chennai were hosting ‘Shadow’ New Year ’s Eve parties to host the Party cubs while their Party animal parents where dining, dancing and drinking away to usher in the New Year. They were taking in kids from the age of 5 to 14 from 7.30 p.m. on 31st to the wee hours of the New Year morn for a sum of Rs. 750/-. One of them is held at a place called Kanchanapaati, a name that you would normally associate with a 9 yard sari clad septuagenarian Mylapore maami who wakes up to Suprabatham but not the type who would host a party late into the New Year morning. I don’t want to sound a loser or lil too old for my age, but W…T.. F*$K, I had'nt been to a New Year party until I was 22. I spent ushering in most of my New Years with a Candle in Hand at the Marthoma Syrian Church on Harrington Road, Chetpet, though on the way back from Chetpet to Besant Nagar, I had the opportunity to view the revelries on the road but never have been a part of it.
The days of Bacchanalia on New Years eve are over, welcome the days of ‘Bachu’nalia …kids who welcome the year high on coke, (as in Coca Cola) French fries and chicken drumsticks and jiving away to the latest Bollywood or Kollywood numbers… Wish you a Very Happy New Year and God save the kids…who are growing a lil too fast.
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