We had our millennium new year's party at our place, which is ideal as a party venue. It's a typical SoHo loft, high ceilings and huge open spaces, so it easily converted into a restaurant. Dinner was catered for by Kin Khao, a SoHo Thai restaurant where Somchai's friend from Bangkok has been head chef for years. We had about forty people at the party, which went on all night, and actually carried through another few days with a hardcore group of people who stayed with us. Our friend Anna was in New York attending film school and brought some of her film school friends with her to the party, and they ended up shooting a movie at the loft about our friend Laura's love life. I also remember ordering a huge decorative cake for the party, and that Somchai tipped the delivery guy $100 because he thought you were supposed to tip big in New York. And because the city pretty much shut down for the weekend after New Year's, the half dozen of us who stayed at the house just stayed inside for those days eating nothing but leftover cake and drinking wine. May not sound like it, but it was great fun, really.