Travelling Without Moving

Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Three days of sleeping while sitting, I'm used to traveling but I brought the last three days to extremes

Day 1 we went to Tarlac City for a Seminar, I slept during the trip and slept during the seminar. Then we went to SM Clark travel back home the travel again to go to Baguio.

I don't know adding my minutes of sleep would add up to a whole day of sleep but skipping sleep was worth it as every site and sound I saw brought me to a dream land even I wouldn't dream of

Igorot Woman does a Peace Sign

Huwaw!

Wana try my kung fu?

I can stop a tank, i think they still use this.

Picking ichigo

Eye to Eye, puppy dog eyes
Eye to Eye, Dragon Doggy eyes

Quit horsing around

Off limits for Pooh

TA-E PARK

I'm the only guy in the trip and I'm with MEAN RULE BREAKING chicks

More pictures on marcsplanet.multiply.com

Holy Week 09 Part 3: Good Friday

We have a gory tradition in our town. People believe that for your sins to be forgiven you have to do penance that means physically torturing yourself. I don't know any other place in the entire country that could match the gore we have during Good Friday.

For decades this has been a tourist attraction. Others might find it offensive so I did not post all the pictures I took, just check out my multiply site that includes the Blood Bath of Good Friday last year http://marcsplanet.multiply.com

What an amazing display of Faith.

You have four options for your penance. This beats the movie "Passion of the Christ"

1. Put cuts in your back, not less than 9, while bleeding hit it hard with bamboo sticks. Walk, crawl, or roll around town at the heat of the day.

2. Strategically place arrows in your body where a slight movement in your upper body would either give you a deep wound or kill you.

3. Carry a cross, wear a full body suit, tie a rope around your waist and have a group of people beat the crap out of you around town.

4. Be crucified in a cross.

The end does not justify the means, but their ways remind us how Christ suffered and died for us.








More Holy Week 2009 Photos check out my multiply http://marcsplanet.multiply.com

Holy Week 09 Part 2: Holy Thursday

Maundy Thursday in our place is not what you'd expect from a Catholic community. Its a warzone out there, more like a mardigra. A lot of people shouting and beating the crap of their Kristo (masochistic people who act like Christ... not the savior part, but the part where He gets beaten up). Every street corner has a Kubol (reenactment of the 12 stations of the cross), this is where the guys who act as Christ stop getting beaten up as they go from one station of the Cross to another. So basically Kubols are put up then a group of men captures their Kristo and beat the bloody hell out of him across the town. Yipee...

The Kubol is a competition so actors don't move for hours as expectators go from one kubol to another.

I had pictures of the Holy Week last year at my multiply http://marcsplanet.multiply.com