Staying at home on the 31st doesn’t make you a ‘loser’. Put on your dancing shoes and travel to the world where the party never ends.
Staying at home on the 31st doesn’t make you a ‘loser’. Put on your dancing shoes and travel to the world where the party never ends
If you haven’t got a fix on your New Year’s Eve plan yet, here’s one: Begin your day with a snowball fight, then join the great treasure quest, and spend the afternoon at the jazz bar chatting with old friends. In the evening, slip into something sexy and head to Times Square for the grand finale. At least that’s the plan if you’re on Second Life (SL) — the world where the parties never end, and the virtual river of alcohol never runs dry.
And there’s a bit of desi magic, too.
Indusgeeks — a technology development company that specialises in SL — is hosting a Bollywood-themed party, complete, with a DJ. “We got the DJ from SL itself, and we’re expecting plenty of Indofiles and Non-Resident Indians to attend the bash,” says the company’s CEO and founder, Siddharth Banerjee. So, if you’re feeling homesick, you can always drop in at the party before heading to Ibiza for the next shindig.
All this might seem a little over the top, but if you can get married on SL for about Linden $5000 — the world’s virtual currency with a dollar equivalent — then a New Year party seems almost passé.
‘The Fourth Annual Second Life Winter Festival’ hosted by SL founder Linden Labs has begun, and the festivities will continue till January 8, 2008.
The clubs are outlandish, the parties surreal, but that’s the draw. As avatar HeadBurro Antfarm reporting for CNN puts it: “SL allows people to make and run a kind of club that could never exist in the real world. Cirque Mystique looks like the set designers of The Matrix got together with conceptual artists for Blade Runner and put their throbbing Euro techno dance club in the belly of a huge galleon from Pirates of the Caribbean!”
However, Banerjee admits that it’s unlikely to see a real-life club-hopping teenager on New Year’s Eve. “The average age of the virtual party goer is 32, the kind of person who prefers to stay at home and watch New Year celebrations on TV,” he says. Only now, you can be active participant.
t_anjali@dnaindia.net
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