The Case for Happy New Year 2011

As wonderful as the Nordic gods of music Abba may be, not even their mildly depressing New Year's song can be on perpetual repeat in my Hue hotel without the high probability of at least one person (namely me) turning into a homicidal maniac and going on a murderous rampage.

Luckily, there are enough unidentifiable meats in Vietnam that the evidence of any such assassinations can easily be concealed.

Here's hoping your own New Year's celebrations to welcome in 2011 were a lot less repetitious but just as wonderful.

Verdict: You would need to be a Super Trouper indeed to put up with one song repeated ad infinitum. But then, we all do have to be good soldiers around Christmas time. One Money out of 3.