A question on popularization of math: inspiring the beauty of mathematics while making New Year's wishes

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Many fellow students of mine today shared by various means the following picture:

http://media.techeblog.com/images/happy-new-year-equation.jpg.

I was told that this picture is supposed to communicate the beauty of math in a funny way, but I really can't see this point (as the math content of the picture is very trivial).

Did any mathematical educator [or can you] find a better (*) way to make New Year's wishes (or Christmas wishes) mathematically (in a sense)?

(*) that is, more sophisticated and really useful to communicate the beauty of math to students in a fun way.

Note: I am not searching for a difficult integral whose solution somehow shows up the words "Happy New Year" or anything like that, but for something conceptually interesting and somehow related to making wishes.