We are obligated to join hubby’s family tonight for an early dinner because its his brother’s birthday.
We would have wanted to just stay in the house because it gets a bit nasty when the clock is nearer 12 o’clock. Almost the whole country mimics a war zone due to firecrackers being fired. Everywhere its smoky and noisy and dangerous.
The moneyed ones have fireworks display. City governments schedule fireworks display in key places at the stroke of midnight to lure away the people from their homes so that they would not light up firecrackers.
I personally know of a family whose home was almost burned down due to these practices. Yes, that was a tragic thing to happen on new year’s eve itself.
We spent the first few days of 2007 in the hospital because of a severe asthma attack that my son suffered. We wouldn’t want to have that repeated. Should I have stacked safety equipment then like respiratory protection?
Personally I always wish for rains during new year’s eve, for my own selfish benefits and its been drizzling since we woke up. To that I say “Woohoo!” (insert Plurk banana dance here)
