Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas To All!
This is the blogs 2nd Christmas, I started November 2008 and I’m looking forward to more years, hopefully. Sorry I don’t have treats to offer, just prayers and well wishes. Yikes! c”,
Last year, I shared with you the way Filipino’s celebrate this very special event, the “Simbang Gabi” (Early Morning Mass), “Noche Buena” (Midnight Feast), etc., this year a norm and tradition done all over the world, Caroling… the Pinoy Style. Usual carolers, kids around the neighborhood, ethnic groups, community organizations, tons of them, name it we have it.
Majority of course were the kids on the block, they usually start rampaging houses for coins as early as November, singing their hearts out in groups and pairs, and if you’ve been very generous, you will be marked for the whole season as they will come back every day, some even twice or thrice and the whole caroling stuff last up till February, imagine that for a Christmas cheer!
Community organizations usually send mails or notes in advance so you would be oblige to give bigger amounts but at least they come only once per group, the problem is, they were several of them, so you will end up shelling more bucks than that the kid carolers.
Then finally the ethnic groups, what’s so funny about this group is that there not even Christians and don’t celebrate Christmas, yet they come ransack houses singing their own traditional tones, not Christmas tones, and at their own language. You won’t know what their chanting about, it might be a curse what so ever. They are around the corner at this very season.
Only in the Philippines and it’s a reflection to our economic instability that’s why I have no qualms about it, life is hard here and for this people specially the kids and the ethnic groups, Christmas is a perfect opportunity for th em to earn, to support themselves and to live. They have no choice but to grab the opportunity even if it’s not in line with what they are representing and the real meaning of Christmas, a celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth.
Anyways, this is the season for giving and sharing so let us share our blessings with everyone specially those who are in need. We might not have much to share monetarily rather but there were many ways we could. Wishing you all a Happy and Fulfilling Christmas!
Dec 25, 2009
Christmas 2009
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