Happy New Year

"I thought at one point maybe they would run out of fireworks." - John Bunting


The infamous case of street fireworks in the Philippines. Basically, don't leave your house. Kids get their hands on fireworks and go nuts on the streets, it's loud, scary, incredibly spontaneous, dangerous and, unfortunately, deadly. Of course it depends on the village you're in but still. This year, we held the family gathering at my mum's house in Makati, causing my aunt to bring her tiny Chihuahua out of fear he would get out of her house and be killed by the fireworks. SMH.

Good news is that the death toll this year was only 600. Yea, I said only.

Happy New Year!