Happy New Year 2026!

Today, people around the world celebrates new year of 2026. In the Philippines, families, friends, relatives, and common people will gather together to watch the display of fireworks at exactly 12:00 am of January 01, 2026. It is a common tradition and belief that firecrackers serve to make loud noise for celebration and for warding off bad and evil spirits. It is also used to attract good luck and happiness for the coming year. Let us all welcome year 2026 with peace, love, prosperity, and blessings to our life.

Happy New Year 2025

Another year is over and we all welcome year 2025 with hope that it will bring joy, good health, and prosperity in our life. Celebrating new year without the usual fireworks is a dull moment. It is already a tradition in our country to greet and welcome the coming year on New Year's eve with fireworks and firecrackers because we believe it will drive away any bad luck in the start of the new year. Fireworks have been a symbol of celebration and triumph for centuries. As we embrace the year 2025 let's pray for each other for the good of our lives, peace all over the world, and love to all mankind. Happy New Year!

Happy New Year - 2023

Today is the first day of the year 2023. Wishing everyone a healthy, peaceful, and a blessed new year!

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Happy New Year - 2022

A new year has began. I wish this year will bring us more blessings and a healthy life. We welcome the year 2022 with open arms. God bless us all!

Blessed and Prosperous New Year 2021

First and foremost, I would like to greet everybody a blessed and prosperous new year. It’s another year of unpredictable and worrisome year since the corona virus pandemic is still here. Fortunately, vaccines are already available and hopefully our country can avail of these vaccines and start to give Filipinos the needed vaccination. Let us be positive and be optimistic that the year 2021 will be the year of healing, give us a better life and will provide more opportunities of employment to those who became jobless during the start of the pandemic. I wish that this year will bring us more prosperity and good health throughout the year. Let us not forget to pray and thank God for all the blessings he had given us for the past year especially that we are free from COVID infection and still very much alive. Let us stay safe and follow the health protocol of wearing face mask and face shield whenever we go out of our house. I thank God that when I wake up this morning, my plants outside my house  had grown so fresh and blooming which is a very positive sign of prosperity and abundance. Again, I wish everybody a blessed and prosperous new year. 

Fresh and blooming

Changing of the color of the leaves shows the sign of cold season

A Blessed and Prosperous New Year - 2020

I'm ready to face this New Year's challenges. I wish everyone a blessed and prosperous New Year 2020!

Happy New Year 2019!

I would like to greet you my dear readers a happy and prosperous New Year of 2019. Last year had been a good year for me but there are some sad moments that happened when my dearest mother passed away. I believe God had ended her sufferings too soon so as not to prolong the pain she has to endure. I know my mother is now with our creator watching and guiding us. On the bright side of last year, I was blessed to be employed in a BPO company. My whole family remains to be in good shape and healthy. My wish and goal this year is to work hard, stay humble, stay healthy, and more blessings to come. I believe this year of 2019 will be lucky for me because I started the year to work, work, and work. Again, Happy New Year and God bless us all. Peace.

Chinese New Year

Today we are celebrating the Chinese new year. A Chinese friend of my sister always gave us the popular "tikoy" or Nian Gao during this celebration every year.  This is already their tradition of giving away "tikoys" to their neighbors as part of their custom. Eating tikoy during this time is considered good luck, that's according to the Chinese belief.  To all my Chinese Filipino friends I would like to greet you Kung Hei Fat Choi.  

Nian Gao or "Tikoy"

New Year, New Challenges

Happy new year to all! Year 2018 had just started and we look forward to another challenges and trials in our life. New year means positive outlook in life and believing that good things are on their way. I thank our almighty God for all the blessings he had given me during the past year. There are ups and downs but this only makes me more a better person to face those challenges. Most importantly, prayers for guidance, peace, good health for me and my family, and prosperity for our country.

Welcome Year 2017!

Happy New Year to all!  A small and simple celebration to begin with this new year, but a big appreciation of the positive things that happened during 2016! Welcome 2017, may all our dreams and apsirations turn into reality, and all our efforts into great achievements.  Thank you God for all the graces and blessings that you had given me and to my family.  

Missing in December

After five years of going vacation every year in December, this is the first time I will skip to celebrate my Christmas and New Year. Actually,  I had my original plan to leave this December 5 but due to the long vacation extension of the Indian colleague in our department whom I'm relieving, I have to change my vacation plan early next year. I will be missing so much the camaraderie and spirit of Christmas season with my family and relatives this year.  For an OFW like me, Christmas and New Year is so special for me because this is the season I can enjoy my vacation with the family.  Bonding together like going to the mall, shopping together, eating and dining together in a special restaurant, and most of all celebrating Christmas together especially during Noche Buena and on the eve of the coming new year watching the fireworks outside our house are all the things I will be missing this year.  Anyway, I will just make up with my family during my vacation early next year.  But for sure, I will miss them so much.  I will try to make my Christmas happy here in the kingdom, alone. 

I will miss this one

This one

And the camaraderie

Welcome Year 2015

It's another year for us to live. Another 365 days of challenges that life has to go through. May this new year bring great level of success and prosperity for the whole mankind. God bless us all!

Welcome 2014!

Welcome Year 2014! Another year has gone and a new beginning had just started. I know Year of the Horse is a lucky year for me. Think positive and everything will be alright as long as the energy around you is magnetize by positivity. Think about the good things that will be coming to you in the future. Work hard to have a better life. Most of all, prayers are the best weapon against all odds, because only God is the only one who can answer your prayers.  Give thanks to God for all blessings that will come into your life.

 

Farewell 2013

Only a few hours and we are going to say goodbye to 2013. Another year of challenges are about to test our lives in different ways.  For me I want to forget all the bad things that I had encountered during 2013 and move on for 2014. A lot of not so good things happened to me but I considered it lessons to be learned. I pray to God that 2014 will be a lucky and positive year for me since 2, 0, 1, 4 are my lucky numbers. More blessings and good tidings are my wish to my family.

I'm still very lucky during 2013 because of the blessings I got like more overtime from my work during the early months of 2013 and the two months salary bonus which our company is giving every year. I thank God for these blessings. Peace on earth, goodwill to man!

Welcome 2013!

May God Bless Us All! A New Year has Come!

A New Beginning! Welcome 2013!

And one of my wishes which I believe I can have this 2013 is ...
 

Welcome 2012, Goodbye 2011!

Goodbye for 2011 and we welcome 2012, with hope it will bring more blessings and positive outlook in our lives.  As the year 2011 brings natural calamities such as earthquakes, tsunamis and typhoon in several countries, we hope 2012 will bring good tidings and a bright future, and people around the world should learn the mistakes of the past so it will never happen again. 2012 is the Year of the Dragon according to Chinese astrology.  The Year of the Dragon will be marked by excitement, unpredictability, exhilaration and intensity. So let us hope and pray that this year with the Water Dragon on the forefront of 12 Chinese zodiac signs will give us good luck in every way or things we do.  With hope and optimism of a better world we are living in, Welcome 2012!

Welcome 2011! A New Chapter of LIfe

Another chapter of our life will be open for 2011.  I'm wishing everyone a blessed, peaceful, and healthy  existence for this lucky year!  May God bless us all!

Peace on Earth Goodwill to Man!