Festive

Hi ZJ,Hello there. Hope that you're doing fine, like always.

We (Mom & I) went to Cabusao for its fiesta. Cabusao is a coastal town of CamSur and its patron saint is San Bernardino de Siena. It's a fishing community and one of its best produce is dried fish. If you are fond of dinailan, you can also find it there. The fiesta took place last May 19 & 20, 2011. Aside from the good food that the taga-Cabusao prepared and served, there was dancing, a tiangge, fluvial procession and sports competition (basketball).

Wish I had pictures to go with this post, but there's none to show.

One of the many highlights of the festivity was the procession of the saints in their andas. At our ancestral house, we have two: the Image of the Holy Cross and the image of San Isidro Labrador. I had a blast helping out with the decoration of the andas. We used barani (the stem of the banana plant) which served as holders of the plastic flowers, curtains, and palmera leaves. After the afternoon novena on May 19, the Cabusao folks had a procession with the many santos and andas. The procession led us to the fish port where the annual fluvial procession took place. There were pagodas of different colors. It was very enlightening and fun to watch the motorized boats as they ply the route to and fro. The lights from the motorized bancas further added an idyllic ambience to the entire scene. After the fluvial procession, a mass was held.

Late in the evening, a dance was held for the people of Cabusao, their former municipal officers and incumbent ones, and for all the bakasyonistas there. A makeshift dance area was created in the middle of the road because the auditorium is undergoing major repairs. Altho it rained a bit, the gaiety was not dampened by the rains. The show must go on, they say. And it went on until the wee hours of the morning.

Let me share with you the food that we had: rice, ibos, sinuman, almondigas (misua soup with meatballs), menudo, cake, hotdog, dilis with peanut and potato, lumpiang shanghai, pasta, gelatin, fish, ice cream, fruit salad, sweet and sour, and chicken. No sense in dieting, hehe.

These will be for now. Will be posting again soon. Hoping that we could get the chance to chat again one of these days.

Take care, always.

Sam ini