Since you missed all the fun, Slang, I should send you the video tape that Lu made for me of New Years Eve in Manila about 5 years ago. Truly amazing, the streets outside her house were filled with smoke from burning tires and explosives, and you can see figures staggering through the smoke like something out of Day of the Dead. Constant gunfire in the background. She almost dropped the camera while dodging a bottle rocket, but most of it is fairly clear