ANG PINAKA... Popular Chines New Year Traditions

Just in time for the Chinese New Year, GMA News TV's Ang Pinaka counted down the most popular Chinese New Year Traditions. This February 10, 2013, let us welcome the Year of the Water Snake with the following:

1. The Dragon Dance
Who doesn't know this? A Chinese New Year is not complete with this.

2. Giving out red envelopes or packets
Who is not familiar with this? We call this "ampao" which is given as gifts, especially to children.

3. Lighting up fireworks
Of course fireworks will always be part of the festivities. The Chinese, after all, invented the gunpowder, which implicitly saying, also invented fireworks.

4. Serving traditional foods
This is similar to the Filipinos' media noche or New Year's Eve dinner. They normally hold this as a family reunion wherein everyone eats traditional foods served at each household.

5. Cleaning the house
A general cleaning is held before the new year as a sign of cleaning the "old" just in time for the "new" year.

6. Putting up decorations
Decorations add up to the spirit of the new year. Most of the Chinese New Year decorations are red in color as the Chinese considers red as a lucky color.

7. New Year's Eve dinner
Please read #4 :)

8. Wearing bright colors and charms
Chinese are famous for charms... and the color red. To welcome the new year, they wear bright colors, especially red, and charms for good luck for the coming year.

9. Visiting temples
The Chinese visit temples on New Year's Eve or on New Year's day for thanksgiving and wishes for a good year.

10. Shou Sui
The family will stake awake to welcome the new year, normally after the New Year's Eve dinner. According to legend, the "Year", a mythical beast, will come out at midnight to bring harm. To fend off "Year", people stay awake, wearing the color red and putting off works.

Source: Ang Pinaka, GMA News TV

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Sino ba may sabi na gusto kong gawin yun. Promise, hindi ko gusto yun noh. Kahit ayaw ko gawin yun, eh nangyari eh. Kainis talaga!


Papakita ko kaya sa iyo. I am not weak and I can step up to your challenge.

What now, Innovation?

Innovation... How come I came to hate you? Maybe because there is too much force applied? I know what I'm supposed to do but you don't have to force and reiterate yourself to me everytime. Oh. I find it difficult to act if everyone else is supposed to as well.

1 month? 2 monts? 3 months?

1 month - masyadong frequent
3 months - masyadong matagal
2 months - para sa akin, tama lang


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Amazing Race 18: And The Cowboys Are Out

Sad, the cowboys are out! :(

Who to root for now? Any suggestions?

The remaining teams are:

1. Zev and Justin

2. Kisha and Jen

3. Kent and Vyxsin

4. Gary and Mallory

5. Flight Time and Big Easy - I hate this team!!! You're next!

And Then There Was None

Ten Little Indian Boys Rhyme


Ten little Indian boys went out to dine

One choked his little self

And then there were nine.
Anthony Marston

Nine little Indian boys sat up very late

One overslept himself

And then there were eight.
Ethel Rogers

Eight little Indian boys travelling in Devon

One said he's stay there

And then there were seven.

Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks

One chopped himself in halves

And then there were six.

Six little Indian boys playing with a hive

A bumblebee stung one

And then there were five.

Five little Indian boys going in for law

One got in Chancery

And then there were four.

Four little Indian boys going out to sea

A red herring swallowed one

And then there were three.

Three little Indian boys walking in the zoo

A big bear hugged one

And then there were two.

Two little Indian boys sitting in the sun

One got frizzled up

And then there was one.

One little Indian boy left all alone

He went and hanged himself

And then there were none.

The Characters and their Crimes


Edward George Armstrong (14 March 1925) caused the death of Louisa Mary Clees


Emily Caroline Brent (5 November 1931) responsible for the death of Beatrice Taylor


William Henry Blore (10 October 1928) brought about the death of James Stephen Landor


Vera Elizabeth Claythorne (11 August 1935) killed Cyril Ogilvie Hamilton


Philip Lombard (February 1932) guilty of the death of 21 men, members of an East African tribe


John Gordon Macarthur (4 January 1917) deliberately sent your wife's lover, Arthur Richmond, to his death


Anthony James Marston (14 November 1938) guilty of the murder of John and Lucy Combes


Thomas Rogers and Ethel Rogers (6 May 1929) brought about the death of Jennifer Brady


Lawrence John Wargrave (10 June 1930) guilty of the murder of Edward Seton


The Deaths


Anthony Marston - died of asphyxiation, potassium cyanide poisoning


Ethel Rogers - died in her sleep

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1. Clarissa Ocampo

2. George Rabusa

3. Chavit Singson

4. Heidi Mendoza

5. Jun Lozada

6. Samuel Ong

7. Rosebud Ong

8. Jibin Arula

9. Primitivo Mijares

10. Vidal Doble

Source: Ang Pinaka, GMA News TV