Celebrating New Year
By GourdBreaker
@GourdBreaker (490)
Philippines
December 31, 2007 11:34am CST
How do you and your family welcome New Year? Here in my country, and it has been the family tradition as well, we celebrate the coming of every new year through feasting at the dinner table. Then at New Year's Eve, we have a street party with the neighbors. Every year we pull outside our big rectangular table and we share our food, and all the neighbors who want to join the party share their own food too. Then we have lots of firecrackers so we close the street. It was a very noisy and very fun celebration for all of us.
So how do you guys celebrate New Year? :)
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5 responses
@devildunk (11)
• Hong Kong
1 Jan 08
Well, I live in Hong Kong. We normally eat out at a restaurant or some nice place during New Year's Eve. Sometimes I hang out with friends and watch the countdown at the HK harbour, which has a stunning night view. There are fireworks and laser shows which are really spectacular.
Too bad this year's New Year was freezing cold (at least for me it was, haha), if not it would have been really really good to end off the last year
@GourdBreaker (490)
• Philippines
1 Jan 08
laser shows! i've never been to any laser show and i think it would be really exciting to attend to one! ^^
@traceyleeappel (510)
• Australia
1 Jan 08
I live in Australia, and I guess everyone are have their different ways of celebrating New Years ! Our way of celebrating New Years is that we either go into the capital city and watch the fireworks or some of us sit in the backyards of our home and watch fireworks while we have a BBQ and a few drinks with friends and family as await for the New Year to come !!
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@GourdBreaker (490)
• Philippines
1 Jan 08
nice! barbecue! it looks like barbecue is always present in family gatherings. :) and yeah, fireworks display complete the coming of the new year.
@cyberfluf (4996)
• Netherlands
31 Dec 07
In Holland there is a lot of noise as well. On the 31st people are allowed to do fireworks till 2 AM, so the rumour starts somewhere late in the morning, then somewhere about 10 PM it gets less loud and in the last 10 minutes it's totally calm. Then at 12 PM there's a great noise and lots of beautiful fireworks.
Or neighbours came over to celebrate this year, not all neighbours celebrate together or with street parties, it varies. We had a lot of new people moving in and we will get 2 more new families (there are 5 homes so that's A LOT!). Well, seems like a good plan for 2008; getting to know them.
We had a nice dessert this new years eve as well, we made brownies with ice cream and caramel sauce :)
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@GourdBreaker (490)
• Philippines
1 Jan 08
that's nice! having big families is fun especially when all of you are close to each other. :)
@nagaraju002 (15)
• India
1 Jan 08
its gud to have a new year celebration with the family. i had a fgud time spending with my family.we have got some music,n then cut the cake n have a nice party.thats it.......
@arabianboy448 (42)
• Portugal
1 Jan 08
Your celebration sounds awesome and I live in Portugal so we celebrate new year with our Grand parents, its also much fun talking about the last year and then we drink champaign and make a wish.
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@GourdBreaker (490)
• Philippines
1 Jan 08
making wishes.. that's interesting. here in the philippines, i don't find people making wishes on new year's eve, but we do have preparations like the feung sui says, to attract fortune and good luck. :)
