Nothing, and I mean NOTHING beats New Year's Eve in the Philippines. An honest-to-goodness, true-blue Filipino celebration features plenty of food, local fireworks, sparklers and explosives of all shapes an sizes—some I'm pretty sure are illegal any place else. As midnight approaches, people flock the streets and welcome the new year with a reverberating barrage of all of the aforementioned, and then everybody reconvenes at the dinner table, continuing to eat (and drink) to their heart's content.At my future laws' home on New Year's Eve, I saw the longest Judas Belt in my life EVER. I am not kidding: It stretched out from their house to the end of the street! For my foreign readers out there, a Judas Belt is just like the same piece of men's accessory, but in place of rivets and holes, lies a strip of triangle-shaped explosives meant to go off one after the other—a domino effect like no other.
The contraption pictured above, on the other hand, is a homemade line of kwitis—a particular exploding sparkler meant to be lit individually. My fiancé and the boys at his home dutifully set this up for 30 minutes, and watched it go off in less than a minute in a series of pfft-pfft-pfft sounds, like missiles being launched in movies.
And this loud bonanza is supplied and made more fun with tables filled with round shaped fruit and food, to represent good fortune and plenty of money in the coming year. Below is my future mother-in-law's homemade ube halaya [purple yam flan]. Yum!
Speaking of mouth-watering treats, I plan on re-posting the entries from my Yummy blog (including the latest Polka Dot Brownies) here in the next few days, to get the blog juices flowing and get the year off to a sweet start :) HAPPY 2010, EVERYONE!
Happy 2010 Ms Mariel! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd ooh, I won a Yummy planner from Spot.ph! I will claim my prize next week :D I think it would be fun to visit the department I interned for (Marketing and In-mag Promos). :) But then again I believe the friends I've made there have already transfered to other companies, so maybe not. Anyway, I hope you have a fabulous 2010 filled with happy memories and experiences :)
Happy New Year, Mariel! I'm psyched to read what adventures you'll have in dear NYC this year. I'm sending you my "luck" and wish you a golden year ahead.
ReplyDeleteHi, Krissy! Thanks :) I was just with Marcie the other night, maybe you could message her on Facebook to let her know you're dropping by :)
ReplyDeleteThanks very much, Miss Guimba! :)
Have a great year ahead!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Doctor Kelly! :) You, too!
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