Tired of the usual counting-down-the-seconds-to-the- New Year ritual? Provide biodegradable lanterns where you can write down something you want to leave behind in the past year. Release them at midnight to symbolize starting fresh. Here’s a few things you might want to do with friends and family to celebrate the changing of the yearHost a countdown party over a video call with loved ones working abroad.
Include games, karaoke, and a toast of drinks local to your home country (tuba, anyone?) to make them feel like they’re in the same room. Or how about you upgrade your celebration by preparing food and drinks representing the countries where family members live, or celebrating the New Year for an entire day as it strikes in each time zone they’re at? Don’t order the usual Chinese feast. If it’s a potluck family party, ask everyone to flex their regional delicacies: Cebu lechon, Bicol Express, Ilocos empanada, moron from Leyte, pastil from Cotabato—imagine the feast you’re greeting the new year with! Provide biodegradable lanterns where you can write down something you want to leave behind in the past year. Release them at midnight to symbolize starting fresh. Celebrating by the beach? Write down one thing you want to let go in a banana leaf and set these leaves adrift toward the sea. Or, you can write your resolutions, hopes, and wishes on a lantern or biodegradable balloon and release them into the air to symbolize sending your prayer to the heavens. It’s a good way to orient kids about your culture. From Cebu? Host a mini Sinulog festival with music, dance, and decorations to bring the energy of your province to your New Year’s celebration. Use tribal drums! From Aklan? Make the celebration Ati-Atihan inspired. From Leyte? Hala bira like the Pintados. Nothing more Pinoy than a karaoke countdown challenge Starting at 10 p.
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