This post will cover the Good Friday of our Lord's Passion.
It was another sleepless evening the night before. I couldn't forgive myself for doing so bad in chapter 9 of Kid Icarus: Uprising which was why I took a nice long dungeon raid at intensity four...which I sadly still lost and made me go back one level just to reconquer the level.
Anyway, I woke up in a daze this Friday. I chose to wake up early, as I always did every year during Good Friday, because of the traditional self-flagellation of our town's penitents. They usually start off early in the day but the bulk of the people hitting their scarred backs cross the road around 10. Also during this day was a How I met Your Mother season 9 and Master Chef USA marathon on Star World.
One other thing that people from the neighboring towns gather to witness are the presentations of Jesus' final hours before being nailed to the cross. I watched maybe five competitors with their spectacular performance being backed by spine chilling Gregorian chants. Most of the participants in the competition are usually returning contenders for a few years now and last year's champion.
The front of our house is one of the hotspots for both the participants of the Penitensya and a lot of bystanders to take part and witness the event.
Of course, having front row seats of one of our town's main activity during the Holy Week is already rewarding in itself but expect heavy noise and traffic along with the sizzling heat of the sun for the whole morning.
The number of penitents walking in the middle of the road start to go down around lunch time.
We also attended the Good Friday procession in the evening...and still no Halo-Halo.
After all the activities for the day had been done, my cousins and I enjoyed a few rounds of several card games. I laughed quite hard on one of our games because I mistook my cousins remark for a green joke when I asked her why I kept losing at Slapjack.
I asked her, "Why do I keep losing!?".
To which she replied, "Because you have a big deck.".
...
The joke is actually 10 times funnier if you know Slapjack.
Last time I laughed so annoyingly hard that my throat started to ache was during our refresher course on our fourth year of high school. I can still remember the smell of the Gorilla Chum Chum.
Anyway, I woke up in a daze this Friday. I chose to wake up early, as I always did every year during Good Friday, because of the traditional self-flagellation of our town's penitents. They usually start off early in the day but the bulk of the people hitting their scarred backs cross the road around 10. Also during this day was a How I met Your Mother season 9 and Master Chef USA marathon on Star World.
The front of our house is one of the hotspots for both the participants of the Penitensya and a lot of bystanders to take part and witness the event.
Of course, having front row seats of one of our town's main activity during the Holy Week is already rewarding in itself but expect heavy noise and traffic along with the sizzling heat of the sun for the whole morning.
The number of penitents walking in the middle of the road start to go down around lunch time.
After all the activities for the day had been done, my cousins and I enjoyed a few rounds of several card games. I laughed quite hard on one of our games because I mistook my cousins remark for a green joke when I asked her why I kept losing at Slapjack.
I asked her, "Why do I keep losing!?".
To which she replied, "Because you have a big deck.".
...
The joke is actually 10 times funnier if you know Slapjack.
Last time I laughed so annoyingly hard that my throat started to ache was during our refresher course on our fourth year of high school. I can still remember the smell of the Gorilla Chum Chum.
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