Best fireworks I ever saw were when I lived in Hong Kong back in the 70's and 80's - they used to be designed around pieces of music and timed to perfection - you could watch them from the water, which I was fortunate enough to experience one year on a junk, or from the waterfront or at home on tv.. the music was also on the radio so that everyone could hear and appreciate the impeccable timing. Happy memories

Ah, yes. 20 years ago when still a free and single man I had a pretty cool penthouse apartment about 800m from the centre of Geneva. We had the New Year stuff for sure, but the very best were the Fetes de Geneve in August, culminating (as they still do) with five invited countries doing a firework competition, ten minutes each.

The last ten minutes were reserved for the Swiss; this is how to do it properly.

My roof top terrasse actually faced away from the lake, but a short ladder gave us access to the flat roof, so with the addition of a few picnic chairs and tables, we were sorted. Loudspeakers outside, volume cranked up on the synced radio broadcast. Happy memories indeed.

Back in the day my office was downtown Geneva, and one of the funnier evenings was 31/12/1999 as our management lot were awfully scared about this potential millenium bug thingy: we put the hit squad together and moved in for our 12 hour shift at 20:00, set up all the monitors, let one poor guy take the short straw to sit downstairs whilst the rest of of us repaired to the rooftop terrasse, suitably armed with champagne to watch the fireworks close up.

All done, back downstairs, oh look, the caterers turned up whilst we were out. Any calls? Nope. Cool, veritable feast ensued. I think we took about four calls overnight in total, and started sending people home as of 05:00. I left at 08:00, awoke about 14:00 feeling like crap, but got down to the office to find just about no-one else... they all called in sick with food poisoning.

I have always liked Disney's New Years Eve fireworks, although the California park, but California had to cancel theirs due to high winds, but WDW in Florida did a good job.


This was Vancouver's show

Which one are you. I'm assuming you are not the one to the left (Alexandra)

None of the above. I'm out of shot, slightly to the right.

One thing I have noticed on the online mental health groups is those who have access to therapy seem to not really understand those who don't have access, some common thinking seems to be if they can access therapy then everyone can.

Part 2 was on last night, another great movie

From Santa I got a six month pass at naffing yoga. I wonder how much that cost me.

I thought that was compulsory in Vancouver.

HID is undermining my resistance of acculturation.

Lucky you....lol

Ohhmmmmmmmmmmm


An arm and a leg, probably.

If I had been born with a normal brain, I may have had a chance at life, but the learning disability alone sealed my fate by not being good enough in school to go onto college which would have opened doors to higher paying jobs, it seems impossible to get a good paying job today without college.