**** a fresh faced japanese hipster sporting a gelled mohican and winkle-pickers bumped past him on his way to pull himself a tiger beer ; he wore a shabby t-shirt ; stencilled across the front in faded ink were the latin words carpe noctem , seize the night indeed ... merlots mind was sent back to his previous jaunt , a long stay in zrich where he spent most nights drinking well into the small hours , pickling his liver at the bar of his favourite cheap airport hotel , a watering hole where the guests did indeed carpe noctem and very little carpe diem was had by any .