diary/the year in question

Well bugger me if it aint a new millenium we are in!
But I got to see it twice!

ok ok, Ill explain: Japan is a clean 9 hours ahead of england [but tokyo might as well be 25 years ahead] So I went to a shrine for the cerimonial ringing of a bell and then headed off to get a drink with my good pal Miyoko. When I woke up the next morning what should I see when I switched my set on? Big ben making its last gong and a whole military defence budgets worth of fire works! amazing!