I'll send you thoughts from Malta.
As usual I won't be sitting at a table (I think "organized waiting for New Year" doesn'r have any sense), but I will pop into several bars (begining with some English pub in St Julian, via Irish bar on the boarder between St Julian and Sliema and finish in some Cuban bar in Ghzira), but I will welcome New Year on the street, on comforting 15/17 degrees which is winter temperature on Malta island.
I'll give a thought or two to some chess positions on RHP and this thread, as well.
😉