Tuesday, January 1, 2008

[LinP3] Re: new year in the province

What, no Eastenders..!! You must be a northern girl. Your description
of the England really made me home sick....no sorry I meant sick LOL.
We are not in Batangas but close in Sta Rosa & the fireworks were
great. This was New Year like when I was a youngster in Crewe.

Cheers

Keith.
--- In LivingInThePhilippines3@yahoogroups.com, "lornabalba"
...> wrote:
>
> I really miss New Years celebration in the Philippines especially in
> my province - Batangas. Compared to New Years celebration here in
> England where the usual thing that people do is go to the pub and get
> hammered as a celebration of new year (not as if they don't do it
> most days or nights for that matter, hmmm that made me think, maybe
> British people thought it is always new year in the UK,LOL).
>
> Anyway, how do we celebrate New Year in the province?
> Well, New Years eve, Mum and my sisters were busy the whole day food
> shopping then cooking and prepering everything for the family meal at
> midnight. Kids would be busy running around and playing which they do
> everyday anyway.
> My eldest sister and her 3 kids, (my brother-in-law works overseas),
> my only brother and sis-in-law and their 5 kids and my yougest sister
> (she's 37 and still single)celebrates new year with my mum in her
> house with my 10 year old son.
> At stroke of midnight, everybody were outside to welcome new year
> with a BANG!(Fireworks) afterwards, family meal and then church.
>
> In the afternoon of 1st January, there were games for the kids in my
> village where they can earn prizes for winning in a game competition.
>
> As for my New Year, I was working from 7 am to 7 pm New years eve,
> home by 8pm, went out for a couple of hours for a curry with my
> husband, came home watch the recorded Coronation Street, went to bed,
> wake up and go to work AGAIN! And that was my celebration of New Year
> in England. I don't even see the living daylight! I MISS HOME!
>

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