Maligayang Bagong Taon 2010
1 Jan
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010 (English)
GODT NYT ÅR (Danish)
MALIGAYANG BAGONG TAON (Filipino)
¡Feliz año nuevo! (Spanish)
VIVAY BALUN TAON (Panggasinan)
Happy new year to all. When I was young we used to greet the new year by jumping when the clock turns to 0.00 hoping we will be taller but now when I turned 30 I lost hope I can’t grow taller anymore. In the Philippines we celebrate with new year with alot of superstitions and these are the ones I grew up with:
- having 12 round fruits (round symbolizes coins means prosperity-money)
- have a lot of coins in your pockets (again means prosperity)
- make ube halaya- cake (kind of root crops with violet color)-(means prosperity because before the highest denomination is 100 pesos and it is violet)
- Wear clothes with circles the bigger the better
- We used to make a Palitaw (floating rice cakes) kind of rice flour mixed with water and mold into ovals and put in the biling ixed of water,crushed sesamse seeds and sugar and when the clock strikes o:00 it should floats (it means luck and prosperity you are always on top )
- Played the radio the loudest
- Gathers all kind of metals like the covers of pots and tin pails and everything that can make noise (I think to drive bad vibes or spirits away)
- We prepare a lot of foods for the noche buena (midnight dinner)
- Go to mass before midnight around 10pm
- Fireworks
And here it my collection of fireworks in my media collections.
Happy new year!!!!
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