My first new years eve in the Fil was spent with my gf in a not so safe part of Taguig in Manila where she was renting. Even the taxi drivers refused to enter that place after dark but she had some relatives living close by so we were safe enough.

She was renting a room above a place used by jeepney drivers who after finishing work slept outside in their Jeepney with a shotgun on the lap.

Anyway new years eve saw these drivers assembling at least a dozen scaffolding poles in an improvised frame pointing up to the sky. They had a large bottle of calor gas rigged up to feed the ends of the pipes and every fifteen minutes or so between the beers and karaoke the bottle was opened, the scaffolding poles became filled with gas and then the fuse was lit. The resulting noise was deafening and the flames shot out of the pipes in the fashion of a battleship broadside.

Crazy! Welcome to new years eve Fil style