Making It Fun in the Philippines

May to June comes to mind with a lot of feasts, right? I decided to write this post due to the fact that the current COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing and a lot of fiestas are CANCELLED. One time, I remembered writing a post about considering celebrations to be more important than one's duties . This time, there's the duty that people have to follow. They have the duty to follow community quarantine guidelines . Some of these involve the use of the quarantine card, social distancing, vehicles should have a certain limit of people riding on it, a curfew from 8 AM to 5 AM, not going out of your house unless ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, and the alcohol ban. However, some people just REFUSE to follow simple guidelines , right? Do you ever get the stupid logic behind fiestas? Some people say that they attend fiestas in order to have a good time or to forget their problems. The logic itself is screwed up because if you celebrate when you have NO MONEY such as what happens during Christm...

Today is the month of May and somehow it's not just the summer month in the Philippines -- it's also fiesta month. Now, I'm just reminded of the movie Heneral Luna where one of the biggest, most stupid characters named Tomas Mascardo left his post to attend a fiesta. Although it's somewhat debated while historians seem not to deny that Mascardo left his post to do something not related to the war. Imagine a general who abandons his post in the middle of a war to attend a town celebration. What happened in Heneral Luna is but a microcosm of the prevalent bad habit among Filipinos to leave their posts to attend a celebration. Worse, they even say that these celebrations such as family gatherings and town feasts are more important than their work. This reminded me of an argument I had with several people. I remembered how I had irritations like somebody placed more priority on her friend's beach wedding in Boracay than to attend an important rehearsal, how somebody...