holy week 2008

whew. after 9,634 days and 2 minutes, i'm back with my usual 'bloggorhea' free writing. thank god. i just got back in manila from zambales for the holy week. end. holy weekend. cause it's literally just barely two days, for the love of god. anyhuway, that was 4 days ago but i'm writing it here just the same.

i had fun really considering jebus just died. no i really am always happy when i'm in palauig. it feels homey and fresh all the time. my parents brought with them two doggies. one labrador retriever who never really retrieves anything. he's kobe. and the other white non-bred puppy named cynkle. (named such because he is 'singkol' in ilocano which means that his front legs are deformed. not really. just crooked but he's not crippled. he was born like that according to my brother) we took them to the beach. yey. and they were stubborn lil puppies. they don't like water. we had to pin them down so they'd stay for a bathing. oh and we did some piko thing too. ye know, the whole draw the lines, pick your stone and take a turn kiddy games.

leki, xinn, noriesse

puppies, leki and tobypiko!

and of course within that whole holy week are the painful processions of the saints, we kept 'mary magdalene' and the resurrected jebus. yeah, we decorate those 'carosas' every year. anyway, wednesday's are around 2 hours of walking around town, friday's we do 3 hours and then thirty minutes for 'salubong' early easter sunday followed by the alleluya singing the angels do (which sucks greater and greater every year. i hate it! it used to be so good. well that was during my time. ehem. and the songs used to be in latin. ha! what do ya say to that! ) the last show is the traditional 'come to yap's place we gots lotsa food' uh huh. we do that every year, serving breakfast after the mass. but the people have been lessening over the years as i have noticed ever since lolo died. it's sad but it's not permanent i hope. :)

xinn fixing mary magdalene's belo

walk it off, fatties!