Circles are out

There is an old custom that many Filipino families follow every New Year’s Eve wherein they serve different kinds of round fruits during what we call media noche, a sort of midnight snack in welcoming the New Year. According to the custom, serving 12 different kinds of round fruits would bring good luck because the round shape of the fruits symbolizes money or coins. But there are changes that constantly and inevitably happen each and every time we welcome a New Year. For this year, one of that changes that we have adopted is to revise and to update that old Filipino custom of serving round fruits.

Coins have devalued progressively, better yet degenerately, through time. In fact, it has been often said that the more coins there is in a country’s monetary system means the much poorer that country gets. Therefore, the old custom that most Filipino families follow no longer follows it objective. To update and salvage this custom, we have included rectangular shaped foods in our dinner table during our media noche meal along with the circular fruits. Instead of representing coins, the rectangle shape would be representing checks and bills, which bears greater value as compared to coins. =) Still, we made sure to specify what we wanted to generously flow in this year so we served a “100 dollar bill” chocolate. =)

We have done our offering so now we would just wait and see if our updated and revised New Year’s Eve custom would indeed bring us good luck and dollars. Welcome 2007! Happy New Year to all!