New Year Celebrations and Injuries

Every first morning of every new year I make it a habit to always turn on the TV and tune in to the morning news to see the different injuries that happened, usually due to firecrackers, during the new year's eve celebration. Aside from the injuries I also checked the different fireworks display of the different countries as they welcome the new year with a bang.

So this morning was no different, the news featured the different celebrations among the different places here in the Philippines and also new year celebrations held in different countries in the world. New Zealand was first featured because I think it was the first country to reach 2009. Countries from the other continents were also featured. All I can say is that they really love their fireworks. All of them featured a special fireworks display as the end of 2008 and the start of 2009 was welcomed. Aside from the fireworks, crowds were also noted as they say "Welcome 2009"

After the fireworks presentation, the exciting part of the news came. Updates from the different hospitals in the Metro where being flashed and shots of firework victims are beings shown. I still get to scratched my head, every year victims just don't learn, they really want their fingers lessen and suffer during a night of celebration. But according to the statistics, firework injuries this year and also gunshot injuries have lessen compared to last year's celebration. At least were going somewhere positive. Hopefully next year I wouldn't be bloody as this year, and hopefully we could find alternatives in making noises in welcoming the new year.