Similar to last year, I celebrated the New Year with the family in our good-ol’ family grocery in Bulacan. In the land of firecrackers, fireworks aren’t necessarily those beautiful fiery explosions in the sky that one would normally imagine, but they’re definitely heart-thumping and loud. Just when the year was about to change, the bomb-like explosions of the strong firecrackers went off and it went on for a quarter of an hour, with no half a second of silence.
A little past twelve, I went up to our top floor and watched the landscape flicker in chaos. Tens of thousands of mini rockets exploding everywhere across the Bulacan landscape. It was quite amusing–I imagined it as a scene from a war, with thousands of anti-aircraft missiles flying in the air to fend off a foreign invasion.
We went back home to Quezon City at around 1 in the morning. It was an interesting sight. There were no other vehicles in the expressway except ours, seriously. It felt like we owned it. Or we were the only survivors of my imagined New Year’s war.
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There were no other vehicles in the expressway except ours, seriously. -> parang last year.
happy new year bikoy!:)
This was a particularly well-written entry, I don’t know why. Anyway, Happy 2008 as well.
Happy New Year Bikoy! All the best to you and your family. More power to your blog and God bless!
Happy New Year!!!
Siguro, dahil may pagka-poetic. Nakaka-relate ako sa “imagined war.” Ganyan din ang pakiramdam ko kagabi.
Happy new year, Bikoy!
oh my god. thats the first time you complimented the writing of my entry in your four years of being my antagonist-fan
happy new year celeni!
wow naaalala mo ang mga sinulat ko from last year ha. happy new year, eka! thesis mode na!
happy new year, ederic
happy new year to you, too, jaypee
happy new year!
hindi mo yun sinulat (or hindi ko siguro nabasa) YOU TOLD ME THAT. err.
Hahaha… well, that, and the fact he used “seriously” as a verbal clutch. Seriously.
Yeah, our cats were freaking out all night, hiding under my sister’s bed.
Fireworks are gorgeous, though. Happy New Year Bikoy! 
Happy New Year! (medyo late na yata ang greeting?) Looking forward to more amusing and moving posts from you. More power!