Monday, June 6, 2005

~The Beginnning~

This sucks...I'm going to be stuck in the library for the rest of my summer until I go the Philippines and Japan in August..hopefully I'll finish all my work sooner^^

So back to the Filippino Festival I was talking about yesturday. It was GREAT! It was the day when the weather shot up to the highest temperature we had in months. It give the festival a more Philippine enviroment! Though I'm not a fan of hot weather, I managed to survive.
I remeber being so excited as I walked my way to the festival. It was at the turn of 6th street when I was back at the Philippines. Filippinos everywhere and the great smell of filippino food filled the air...mmmmm^_^. I stuffed myself with BBQ(the best BBQ I've ever tasted!! So juicy!^o^), sago(I never knew it tasted so great!), and halo-halo(the best dessert ever!!). By the time I wanted mog-mog, there was a long line for each vendor!!
After eating came the entertainment. The dances came first.(the pics below were not from yesterday...I didn't bring my digital camera! grrr..I'm so mad at myself>_<. Oh yea,for those who are not filipino, you don't have to read this...you might get bored. just go to the part marked with a "*")

The first one I saw was the "Maglalatik." This dance is danced by men who wear coconut shells and knock on them to make an awsome ryhthm.



Then I saw the "Pandanggo sa Ilaw." These kids were about my age and were so good at this!! This is danced with candles on their hands and heads. There was this one time when they put the candles in a handkerchief sack and spun it around!! The handkerchief never caught on fire!!



The cutest dance was the "Itik-itik" Itik means "duck" So this dance are about ducks!!^o^ the dance imitates how it walks with short, choppy steps and splashes water on its back while calling to its mate. It was so cute when the little boys and girls would pass the large flower to their mate, with their mouths!^^



Then came the "Sakuting" This song had an awsome beat! I wish I knew how to dance filippino dances!!


Last came the dance, "Tinikling." It's a dance when the dancers imitate the tikling bird’s legendary grace and speed as they skillfully play, chase each other, run over tree branches, or dodge bamboo traps set by rice farmers. They make dancing between bamboo sticks that move contastanly!


*After the dances came the parade it was great parade! I'm not going into much detail so you won't get bored, but my favorite group would be the "Young Filipiono-American Group." They were so lively and made me proud to be one^o^

The rest the day's entertainment was the music.(Oh, wait I also saw the filipino martial art! I'm going to enroll in a class! It looks so cool!^o^) They were all American songs and having it was quite funny to have filipinos sing them^^(one thing you should know about filipinos, is that we love kareoke!) Though some parts seemed out of tune as some guy sang Kelly Clarkson's "Since I've Been Gone," it think he sounded better than her(I hate Kelly>_>)
hangang dito nalalang...

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ello! thanx for reading todays post!^^ Now u gets a treaty weety! Yays! To bad I can't give it to you for reals...so don't fuss over not getting a real prizey wizey! just do DA HAPPY DANCE! lalalalalalalalaaaaaaaaaaa....okay i'm ending this. or should I move onto another subject...i love bubble tea....mango bubble tea...coconut bubble tea...lychee bubble tea....*Slurp *chew *chew *chew. I've recently hooked on Pita-ten. The characters are so kawaii and plus ppl say I'm a lot like misha and shia^^ tehe...OKay Dokay! time to explore the world now. bibi now!

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