The Mayor's New Year speech

It's times like those - when you're suddenly (without even a few seconds warning) ushered quickly into a hall full of Japanese suit-wearing workers to stand patiently in a row, you're told, to listen to the mayor's speech - jet lagged and only able to understand a few words, meaning your attention very easily drifts off into dreamworld - that you're reminded just how bizarre your job and your life here really is.......just what the dickens did he say?!!