One More Rant Before the New Year
Dec 28, 2007 Filed under: Random Stuff
So I was walking home yesterday listening to Shout Out Louds, lost deep in my thoughts when all of a sudden I saw something lit thrown in front of me. I was taken a back and without much time for me to figure out what it was, it let out a huge BANG making me squeal like a cat whose tail just got stepped on. Firecracker. Before I get the chance to assemble myself, the kids who did the throwing hurriedly ran off to avoid the wrath that I might have inflicted on them. I happen to have taken this quiz and found out that I could take on 15 five year old kids at once.
Seriously, who thinks that firecrackers are essential to having a wonderful New Year’s eve celebration? Do anyone really believe all those voodoo-drive-away-the-spirit crap? How about welcoming the new year with an amputated hand, do they think that’s lucky? And oh, don’t even get me started on these so-called PVC pipe gun which not only lets out a huge bang that could give an old lady an immediate heart attack, it also can give you an extra crispy burnt face. Ever since I was a kid I have always hated firecrackers and never even touched one. The whole point why boys at that age try to play with one is so that they can prove that their all tough and brave and I grew up not caring what people around me think.
Of course, parents are all to blame in this. They just let their kids go off and do whatever they want thinking those firecracker-related accidents shown in the news won’t ever happen to them. And as far as I can tell, most people who actually light up and play with firecrackers are those who can barely eat three meals a day and yet they go off and buy the loudest and most dangerous firecracker that they can afford.
I might be going out on a limb here in saying that I appreciate what the local media is doing to let the public know the dangers of firecrackers. I also did not have the knowledge before that the Department of Health is working towards to make the Philippines firecracker-free by 2010. Until then, I’m taking a cab home, at least until after new year’s day.
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One Response for "One More Rant Before the New Year"
Actually I doubt the 2010 campaign would succeed and the majority of the Filipino public doubt it in fact… Even in Davao with Duterte’s militant strictness against it there are people still violating those anti-firecracker ordinances… Same goes for those ordinances passed during Martial Law by Marcos. Hell I know someone who will literally cut off one of his pinkies if they did as a wager as to if they did succeed with making the country firecracker “free” by 2010, which I hope he would not need to.
I personally find quiet New Years OVERRATED (can’t emphasize that enough) and AWFULLY BORING! I did experience one New Year that was firecracker free (in TX) and guess what I literally forgot it was New Year a week after January 1st. That’s just how bad it is! Nothing beats 150db noise (the louder the better!) and the smell of gunpowder when greeting in the New Year at the stroke of midnight. At least with those things, I know right then, right there that its really New Year.
What the government can do is invest in more higher quality firecrackers/works the way people in like China do. They should also at least advertise safety methods on how to handle them and how to clean up firecrackers that don’t light and the like. There’s a whole list of things they can do to ensure that the loudness (which I’m proud of) is maintained while making it at least a bit safer rather than just ban them…
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