Ganito ang pagdiriwang ko ng pag dating ng bagong taon sa Tokyo...
9pm, mag umpisang panoorin ang KOHAKU program ng NHK kung saan mo makikita ang da best and the worst pag dating sa kantahan. Magandang experience ito sa ENKA - ang walang kamatayang Japanese Ballad!
Kain kayo ng Sushi, sashimi, nabe (hotpot) at walang tigil ng ka-iinom ng nihonshuu (sake), of course one has to get a really good brew! This year, I would recommend, YO-I-SEN from Iwate Prefecture. A dry sake. Truly nomiyasui! (easy to drink and it does not give you that dreaded hangover afterwards)
Kohaku will end about 15 mins to midnight, by then you will be sated, and if Pinoy, you will start yearning for the sounds of triangulo, superlolo, boga, and the pika pika of hamon, keso de bola, and the stuff you usually find on a Pinoy dining table. The inuman part, is of course de luxe so I do not complain... I welcome the new year quietly, sated and still mindful of what I have to do in 2007. As the Japanese greeting goes...
AKEMASHITE OMEDETOU GOZAIMASU, KOTOSHI MO YOROSHIKKU ONEGAISHIMASU!
(congratulations on a new beginning, this year, may I ask you to please bear with me as I go about pissing you off while learning your culture...) the latter part take on a different meaning since it depends on who is saying it... Yoroshikku Onegaishimasu!
12:00am - happy new year.. sa TV you will see how the new year is received... very solemn and quiet. Temple bells ring 108 times, I can hear one from where I live if I turn off everything. It is a truly awesome way for me to celebrate the new year, drunk and meditating to the temple bell. It did brought me to my senses!
HERE'S TO GOOD HEALTH IN 2007!
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