Berlin 08 - 2008/2009 New Year Count Down

Lights beamed from Brandenburg Gate as seen from my hotel window at 11pm Dec 31st 2008.

Closing into Brandenburg gate... and this is Unter den Linden at 1130pm/31st Dec 2008.

Unter den Linden at 12AM+/1st Jan 2009. Smoky :)

Fire crackers everywhere!! sometimes shooting up from close proximity!

Ambulance sirens every minute too! But ive no idea why and how did someone get hurted?!

Me among the crowds.


Lighting up the sparkler.
Woohoo!

Sticking the rocket into empty bottle and lighting it up. Quite a sight to see many of these shooting up the sky!

Expanded pyrotechnics.

Las Vegas 08 - fun time!

Beware of chicken while driving along the strip.. this is one roadkill i wouldnt wanna be responsible for...


Perhaps the best way to snap the MGM Grand Lion using a layman's camera is from within the car. Anywhere else, one would either be blocked by lamp-postss.. or it would be too huge to be captured (i dont have wide angle lens).




Nice place with live band (Mexicans going from table to table crooning). I wanted to dedicate "La Cucaracha" aka "The Cockroach song".. but they didn't come to our table :\


Some more closing pics


And this is where I end my Vegas pic show&tell.. next stop would be Japan!