Who's sent fireworks up in the sky at dawn? I didn't! My neighbors did them and I watched with pleasure at the free firework show last night. Thanks to my neighbors I don't have to burn my money on fireworks to enjoy them.
"Imposant" is the Dutch word I choose to use to the array of fireworks that went up in the sky last night. There are those that shoot like tiny whistling groups of fireflies and exploded like blown - lit - wish cottons of a dandelions in the sky and that's my favorite.
The fireworks industry is getting more and more creative; "design wise" and I wonder if they'd ever come up with fireworks that doesn't cause smog and paper trash the next day, too? Besides, everything is possible now these days, isn't it? That would be one trend I'd be looking forward to witnessing in the future.
I love the ones that goes up so quietly with one "cheuwwww" whistling sound and explodes... first in white sparkles.. then green, red and a bit of a yellow orangey and finally in small blue corn flower like sparkles arranged in a circle galore. Just amazing.
Have you any idea how much one of those cost? Let's talk mow~ney. While my husband and I were watching all of those for more than two hours last night, I was counting 5 euro, 10 euro getting burned and so on an hour after watching all of them showing their designs off in the sky. In less than an hour, I counted more than a thousand for every firework being sent in the sky. It was a fun thing to do cause you really have to be fast cause they don't get sent one by one yeah? It's like counting sheep to get yourself to sleep, just better.
Do you know that you can eat in a buffet of 45 dishes in the Philippines for 10 euro? It could also be used to budget one feeding program for malnourished kids in Laos or Africa. Do you have any idea how much money is spent for fireworks in every country annually? Can you imagine how many feeding and educating the less privileged to better their lives could all those thousands euro worth of fireworks that were sent in the air last night could actually support?
Let's not go so far, I've heard it on the car radio while we're driving off the other day that 68M euro has been spent to fireworks these days and let's not go abroad, let's take care of the people near us first .. because they, too need help!
Can you imagine how many homeless and less privileged people that much money would have provided a housing for or a budget to getting educated to better their lives and be independent and make a difference in the world, too? Instead, you probably just realized, they were burned for our eyes to feast for short hours.
I don't think so! Then what's all this wasting your hard earned money being spent on worthless "fireworks and firecrackers showing off ritual" for?
You'd probably dislike those questions and think it's none of my business what you do with your money and you're right. It's just once a year and you're just doing that for hours in New Year's Eve and it's your birth right to do what you want and you're right on that.
When I first came here, I was surprised with the fact that it was already Dec 25 and no one was using fireworks nor firecrackers at all. I loved it because damn firecrackers hurt the ears okay! It's the most annoying invention ever made meant for the New Year's Eve it could kill one with a heart attack!
The past two years have changed. I'm hearing firecrackers popping here and there as early as two weeks before New Year's Eve but .. you can still count them in your fingers compared to what it's like in my country.
Where I came from, I wouldn't dare go out and roam the streets in Dec 31 because someone could just throw you a lit firecracker the type that could make you loose a finger or two or even your whole hands while you're innocently just passing by.
Am I exaggerating? The Pinoys haven't reacted to any of my posts about our traditions so I'd park asking them but why don't you surf the net but only do if your stomach's strong enough with what you might see. It's literally bloody red in many hospitals right now and some incidents of people losing their house to fire would be another case there, too. I won't advise clicking the image section though.
Almost two hundred firecracker related cases the last time I checked so you know am not just claiming crazy things. This is LOW to consider compared to the past few years because some places have banned the use of it and many people hate it. Seriously? I'm glad that the president have prohibited the use of extreme firecrackers in my country!
I nor my whole family have never experienced losing a finger or a toe to firecrackers nor to fireworks because my parents have never really practiced burning their money on them when we were young. I only remember being allowed to play with sparkles and a fountain like firework every year. Whether my uncles and my father have used one that could cause them trouble they must have done it elsewhere far away from our house.
We've never had to rush anyone bathing in blood after loosing a limb or two from a firecracker nor that the house went on fire due to that annoying loud, trash causing Judas belt that explodes like a machine gun being fired. Nor have any of our family members lost an ear or an eye or any part of our bodies due to firecrackers.
Here, I've never heard of such incident yet except perhaps for one in the past and people here seem to learn their lessons faster than we do in the Philippines they're banning dangerous fireworks and firecrackers this year which I am so damn glad with because I am not a huge fan of the loud annoying sound that scares the hell of a sleeping baby or that which drives your cats or dogs dodging under your sofa or bed while howling in fear all hours long while those Babam~! Babam ! goes on.
Here, they don't have to suffer to a three day sulfur smoking smog which creates a pseudo foggy look specially in the major cities in Manila nor that they have to clean up trash of torn paper wrappers from fireworks and firecrackers like we do in the Philippines for so many days after New Year's Eve.
Yesterday, it was actually raining but it turned into a drizzle at midnight so the smog didn't really last till today. We have quite a gloomy day today but I'm glad that the heavens have been wailing over spilled and wasted blessings they've granted the many. It must have hurt them watching them being burned into meaningless, seconds of bought happiness and chance of showing off to the neighbors in New Year's Eve or to cope up with the trend the majority observe in this time of the New Year.
While I'm writing this another set of fireworks being sent up the sky despite the falling heaven tears and I thought .. someone is still not done burning his money but you know what ... there would be so many more who are not for a week or two in my country.. and yet, we ask why we have turned from being The Tiger of Asia to being a third world country.
When I was young, I don't remember waking up to smog for days after New Year's Eve and I don't remember celebrating the New Year's Eve with too much noise from fireworks either. I don't remember seeing hundreds of kids and adults alike being rushed to the hospitals crying with bleeding bombed like body parts because of fire crackers either but I remember making much noise blowing party horns when we were young and waking up to a flock of sparrows chirping happily flying from one coconut tree to another in my grandfather's house so but these days, you won't see the sparrows anywhere in the cities of Manila after the blasts! What has happened to us, Pilipinas?
Are we going to continue being zombies and slaves of the markets of non stop trends of inventions that suck our pockets dry, keeping us dumb doing things that gives us short pleasures and no reasons and answers to whys and most of all making us their marionettes dancing on their palm, giving in to their every whims and capriciousness while we continue to dream of a brighter future that may actually only be happening to them at the expense of our hard work?
When are we going to wake up?
Nagpaputok ka ba kabayan? Kung nagpakain ka nalang sa mga biktima ng bagyo kelan lang ngayong Disyembre ... malamang mas HAPPY ang NEW YEAR mo. Isa pa .. ano na nangyari sa kultura natin talaga - ang torotot? Naalala mo pa ba torotot lang kuntento ka na nung bata ka pa?
GISING MAHAL KONG PILIPINAS, Kumawala ka sa rehas ng mga walang kabuluhang pagsusumakit na makasabay sa parang makinang na mundo na iyong tinitingala at pinipilit maabot habang sinisipsip ng mga gahamang bampira at mabahong industriya ng paputok ang ipon mo'ng bunga ng pawis at dugo ng iyong araw-araw na walang katapusang pagkayod sa isang gabi lang! HANGGANG KAILAN KA MANANATILING TULOG, SUNUD -SUNURAN SA KUNG SAAN KA DADALHIN NG ANOD NG "USO"?!
Yes, I still like watching fireworks and would still enjoy doing it year after year but only because it's still being done in moderation and cautiousness where I am now compared to what is happening in my country but I'm not going to mum about my country's situation is with the hope that such plague won't find its way here, ever!
I hope that everyone who's reading this still have their fingers and toes all complete ATM and perhaps while you're hung over.. you really are Having a Happy New Year!
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