In the end last night was spent talking to people on Skype. I did stay awake til gone midnight which was impressive! I put the TV on to the Vietnamese stations shortly before midnight but not much happened. Some letters danced across the screen at midnight spelling happy new year, then they showed some footage from Sydney and Auckland before going back to regular programming!

I did wake up at about 6.30 this morning and for a split second I thought about getting out af bed and putting on BBC world nto see the stuff back home but that idea soon went away as my be was nice and warm and I was still very sleepy. There is also a lag of half an hour here so it probably wouldn't have come on TV til 7.30 unless they made an exception for new years. Each time they do a time check on BBC world here everything is out by half an hour so no doubt they showed the UK celebrations half an hour late too.

I did catch the news this morning and they showed some of the stuff in London and Edinburgh which looked cool. I don't know if there was anything exciting happening in Ho Chi Minh or even Hanoi - if there was then it didn't make it onto TV at all. Maybe next year I won't be so shattered after working horrible hours so I might make it to the old quarter to see what happens there. I'm sure Vietnam knows how to party but maybe they're saving it all up for Tet.