Bare Hand Puppet Singing "One Night"

For three consecutive days, I had no internet connection and I had nothing to do but stare at the four corners of my room. I then saw a ballpen and looked at my hand. I drew a mouth, and eyes on my hand. I created a hand puppet! Thought it was so cute that I must record it. I saw my cellphone with camera and it suddenly dawned on me on what to do next! I recorded my hand singing... but of course, that was my voice. I always thought it would be nice making different voices. On this video, I used a macho male voice. I was not biased or anything but the hand puppet I made was so cute that I created more of it. I showed it to my nieces and baby nephew and they were laughing also. I was having a hard time uploading it on youtube, though. Hope you like it.

 

 

New Year 2011

By now, I can truthfully say that I have survived 2010.

Two hours before the year 2010 ended, I was still busy doing my job as a Freelancer. As for my son, he was outside our house, giggling and laughing with the neighbors' kids. They were busy preparing for firecrackers that they were planning to use to welcome 2011.

Fireworks and firecrackers are very famous in the Philippines especially if there are big celebrations like birthdays, fiesta, anniversaries, and most of all, Christmas and New Year.

I learned that firecrackers were invented by the Chinese and that was one of their many inventions which they brought in the Philippines. The Chinese believed that loud sounds and exploding lights could ward off the bad spirits and misfortunes of the old year and to give the incoming year a clean slate.

The difference between fireworks and firecrackers is that the beauty of fireworks can only be seen during nighttime. On the other hand, the firecrackers is being appreciated by the sound it produces, thus the louder the sound of the explosion, the better it is to keep bad luck away from transferring to the new year.

The Philippine government is now discouraging the Filipino people to use firecrackers since most of the time, freak incidents happen (see the picture below to know the reason).



Most of the firecrackers and fireworks that proliferate in the Philippines came from Bocaue, Bulacan, which is also being considered as the "Firecracker capital of the Philippines".

Below are some of the most dangerous firecrackers available in the market.

Atomic Bomb - explodes like an Atomic Bomb (left) / GoodBye Philippines - explodes like there is Civil War in the Philippines (right)

Bawang (Garlic) - produces mild explosion

Bin Laden Firecracker - explodes like it is the end of the world