Happy Halloween!
It's the Halloween time of the year again. The streets are crowded, the light from the candles become streetlights, the murmurs of the parents and the relatives burst in the darkness, the laughter’s of the children and their cousins overshadowing the sound of the cars as they are being parked. The traditional Filipino Halloween or undas as they call it is the time of the year when Filipinos make Halloween an occasional family reunion at the cemetery, with tall big yellow candles lit and an overflowing mix of flower scents, and in front of the dead. Their children and their nieces being vain and playing with the camera while the teenagers talk about more superior vanity and boyfriends/girlfriends. Wow.
Thank god I haven't celebrated it yet, we are planning to. Though, we don't intend to make such a big fuzz out of the one undas day. No family reunions, no overnights in the cemetery, no playing around like kids. But I'm pretty sure there'll be vanity.
We celebrate Halloween by simply buying flowers, buying candles, going to the memorial house, lighting the candle, offering the flowers and praying. After that, we leave. That's our Halloween.
Though, I have this dream of one day going to a Halloween party dressed up as something.
We'll go to Mt. Carmel something tomorrow because my mom thinks it's less irritating. I hope to see Gio Limjoco again, very hopeful.
Today though, will be a boring one and i hope something happens today. You know what they say, expect the unexpected. Happy Halloween again.
This year, I want to be an Elephant. :P