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Megu: this place is considered to be the most stunning spots in NYC. This restaurant is very beautifully decorated especially at the time of New Year eve. Here you can find multiple bars as well as lounges which are still unexplored by a large crowd. You will also notice Buddha ice sculpture bordered with candles at the center of the dining room. All the party lovers can enjoy hip hop music with dance. Megu offers Japanese haute cuisine. Many celebrities often visit this place.

Tao restaurant: this is one of the most wanted restaurants of many celebrities. This restaurant is famous for its Asian cuisines. Celebrating New Year here means enjoying food to the fullest. There is good number of seats for the visitors. The whole atmosphere of the restaurant makes it a special venue for the New Year celebration. It offers excellent dining for the party lovers.

Phillipe chow: this restaurant is said to be the favorite restaurant of the celebrities. It offers great services to the visitors. Other than New York this restaurant has its branches in Miami and Hampton. Rihanna is said to be the chic of phillipe chow she visits this restaurant very often. This is one of the most elegant and charming restaurant for your New Year celebration this year. When you are here you will get the feeling that what an elegant and remarkable start to New Year 2010 New York. and also meet many celebrities when you are here.

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This day is celebrated on the first day of the year. As per the modern Gregorian calendar, the New Year is celebrated on January 1. New Year celebrations are celebrated with sparkling fireworks at the stroke of midnight announcing its arrival.

Everyone tries to make most of their New Year holidays. After a year-long, non-stop work and weariness from the robotic city life, these holidays come as a breath of fresh air. Families fly out to the most exotic destinations like beaches, picturesque countryside, and idyllic locations. Travelers can plan out New Year cruises on the luxurious yachts at a pretty decent amount. There are romantic cruises for the love couples and family cruises.

New Year parties are organized almost everywhere. These parties are a venue of good get together where friends, family, and relatives and associates come together under the same roof to have good times. Even restaurants and hotels make extensive arrangements for a New Year party to delight their visitors. During this festive time, when the streets are corralled with enthusiastic crowd; the pre- booking of the New Year table is a good idea.

To make most of the day, the crowds of hundreds of thousands of people come on the streets. On this day, bars, discos and pubs are especially jam packed. There are many who prefer staying at home and have a low-key celebration. They cook food at home and dine with their family.

New Year is celebrated around the world with pomp and pageantry. In Australia, families plan out get-together, dinners and outdoor activities like picnics, camping, barbecue party and water sports. Major crowd and its star cities are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney Harbour Bridge is lit by more than 80,000 which can be seen from the radius of 16 km. People camping, enjoying beach party and cruises, bonfires are all lined up for the entertainment.

New Year Celebration in France is known as “la Saint-Sylvestre. French people prefer to celebrate the New Year with their near and dear. Families prepare special dinner to wine and dine with their family.

Welcoming the coming year in Canada is all about enjoying winter festivity, cruises, hitting the clubs and wining and dining. Locals and visitors go to the cities like Vancouver, Ontario, Niagara Falls, Toronto and Qubec which organizes free mid-night live concerts, fireworks, parades and dance and musical performances.

In the USA, echo of the coming year is heard from the Hollywood Studios to California and Washington to Vancouver. Celebration in USA means non-stop entertainment- joyrides, nightclubs, hotels, cruises, performances, big shopping malls, dance shows, theatrical performances and a lot more. You have New York’s Times Square, Las Vegas casinos, Disneyland, and glamorous Los Angeles.

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As the oldest of all holidays, New Year, is a time of rebirth, which has its origin in ancient Babylon, nearly 4000 years ago. It was originally thought to have been celebrated on March 15th. Julius Caesar made January 1st as New Year’s day, in 46. B.C.

New Year Resolution

The original favourite New Year resolution was to return borrowed farm tools, in ancient Babylon.

Still every year thousands of people around the world, say goodbye to the old year and promise themselves a new beginning with New Year resolutions. Yet these resolutions are the most breakable promises in the world, for come January 15th, most have been forgotten.

Fear and custom is the source of many of the traditions that surround the celebration. Perhaps none more strange than the source of gathering with your friends and family at midnight. It was believed that what you did on the first day of the year set the pattern for the whole year. Gathering together with those you loved in the first few moments of the New Year, was thus very important.

United States of America:

In Times Square, New York, thousands come together to watch a ball do a one-minute descent, heralding in midnight. The first iron and wood ball was dropped in 1907. The current Waterford Crystal ball, with a six foot diameter, weighs 1,070 pounds. There are many people who would like to know what the crystal ball ushers in this year, for a world in deep financial trouble. The word is that fortune telling is one business that is on the rise.

Auld Lang Syne

Throughout every English speaking country in the world, the New Year is ushered in with the singing of Auld Lang Syne. A song that is renown for containing the most forgettable lyrics in the world. Lyrics which very few people would even understand. Here are the lyrics for you to have fun with New Year’s eve:

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,

And never brought to mind?

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,

And auld lang syne.

CHORUS:

For auld lang syne, my dear,

For auld lang syne,

We’ll tak a cup of kindness yet,

For auld lang syne!

And surely ye’ll be your pint-stowp,

And surely I’ll be mine,

And we’ll tak a cup o kindness yet,

For auld lang syne!

We twa hae run about the braes,

And pou’d the gowans fine,

But we’ve wander’d monie a weary fit,

Sin auld lang syne.

We twa hae paidl’d in the burn,

Frae morning sun till dine,

But seas between us braid hae roar’d

Sin auld lang syne.

And there’s a hand my trusty fiere,

And gie’s a hand o thine,

And we’ll tak a right guid-willie waught,

For auld lang syne.

Although not written by him, Robert Burns first published the song 1796. He had learned the song from an old Scottish man.

Made popular by Guy Lombardo, it was played at the Warldorf Astoria, New York, every New Year’s eve from 1930 to 1976. This included the years of the Second World War.

Greek Traditions:

In Greece the symbol of a baby is still used on New Year banners. It was meant to symbolize the annual rebirth.

Japanese Tradition:

New Year is a time when all misunderstandings and quarrels are forgiven. This was represented by the forget-the-year party, as well as sending New Year cards.

Netherlands Traditions:

The Netherlands lit up the New Year and purged the old, with bonfires.

Chinese Traditions:

China, being the home of fireworks, believes demons are chased away and good luck brought in. If you are wandering through China on Chinese New Year, (February) you will not be able to tell the difference between gun fire and fireworks that continuously go off around you. A second Chinese tradition is to throw out your old furniture and buy new. Of course you leave your old furniture on the pavement, for others to pick up for free. What is old to you, is new to someone else.

Spanish Traditions:

In Spain you will get to eat twelve grapes. One for each good month in the coming year.

English Traditions:

An old English tradition is to make sure you eat a piece of Christmas cake for 12 different cakes, so as to ensure a year’s prosperity. Perhaps that was the Queen’s problem when she had her “Annus horribilus”. She didn’t get a slice from enough different cakes.

So we have only touched just one or two of New Year traditions. You can check out this really great site for traditions, world wide.