These pictures was sent to me by my mom who visited my grandma in a
Greenhills Memorial Park in
Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. We never celebrate Halloween Party but, we do commemorate our dead loved ones every November 1st and 2nd as
All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day. Filipinos usually visits to the memorial park and built tents, brought foods, candles and make their estate beautiful and comforting like this. Here, my grandma lay together with her lifetime employers. They were so good to her and so, the family decided to have her in their resting memorial estate. Some of the surrounding areas were MAUSOLEUM, which is the resting abode of some of the wealthy family in my city. You can see it in the first picture. Some of it have centralized airconditioned room with cozy comfort rooms inside, wonderful chandelier and a refrigerator...yep, looks like a house already. That is how
Filipinos spend for their passing loved ones. This park has amenities like Church, playing grounds, parking lot, wide 2 lane roads and not to mention it is overlooking the city. Filipinos jampacked in all cemeteries in the Philippines during these days. Not to mention that it is 24 hrs, yep...some stay overnight in the cemetery. It is a family tradition to be with those who passed away at least once a year.
These pictures was sent to me by my mom who visited my grandma in a Greenhills Memorial Park in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. We never celebrate Halloween Party but, we do commemorate our dead loved ones every November 1st and 2nd as All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day. Filipinos usually visits to the memorial park and built tents, brought foods, candles and make their estate beautiful and comforting like this. Here, my grandma lay together with her lifetime employers. They were so good to her and so, the family decided to have her in their resting memorial estate. Some of the surrounding areas were MAUSOLEUM, which is the resting abode of some of the wealthy family in my city. You can see it in the first picture. Some of it have centralized airconditioned room with cozy comfort rooms inside, wonderful chandelier and a refrigerator...yep, looks like a house already. That is how Filipinos spend for their passing loved ones. This park has amenities like Church, playing grounds, parking lot, wide 2 lane roads and not to mention it is overlooking the city. Filipinos jampacked in all cemeteries in the Philippines during these days. Not to mention that it is 24 hrs, yep...some stay overnight in the cemetery. It is a family tradition to be with those who passed away at least once a year.
i missed this kind of celebration; too bad we don't do that here :-)
ReplyDeleteanyway, here to visit and say thanks for the visit :-) see you later!
yes, too bad...we will just remember them in our prayers, thanks for beeing here
ReplyDeleteWe do have this in Malaysia and Singapore and usually it's held in March. It's called the 'Ching Ming' festival. In addition, memorial parks are getting modernised and looks more like a garden in Malaysia, compare to those 'eerie' cemetery of the past.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure amy you wanted to be there too..but i think no matter where we are if we want to remember the ones who've passed away we could..
ReplyDeleteIts very true, that's how we remember our love ones over there which seems like a picnic to the kids. Wow Amy, ang yaman nyo pala ha?
ReplyDeleteI remember, every All Souls Day our family will put a big tent on the memorial park and bring too many foods with matching lechon. Just like having a party over there and stay the whole day. And then you can stroll the whole place and you will see familiar faces.
I missed those events already bec its totally different here in US
in the states its a big celebration of trick or treating but here in the philippines, its like a sort of prayer rally at the cemetery for our beloved who passed away..
ReplyDeletebut i guess there are also trick or treats at the malls na.. but we havent tried it pa.. hehehe
anyways, thanks for being so sweet and dropping by my baby blog amy. take care always!!
chrisau- that is really good to know that you have the same festivities as we have in Philippines and likewise, we have private cemetery that looks like a park already....very expensive though...my grandma is lucky to have this space...hehehe
ReplyDeleteKittykat- yes, I do missed it but, you are right, wherever we are, we still can offer prayers for our loved ones who passed away
Umma- adopted lang lola ko d2 hehehe...this is really a nice place, not eerie even night time, it is like a park talaga...yep, like a Fiesta in the cemetery nga diba? with lechon and variety of foods...hmmm...ONLY in the Philippines
Niko-you are right, in Philippines, we have trick or treat too but only in the "rich neighborhood" and malls...i never attended even once also hehehe...napakasaya pag Nov.1 and Nov.2....traffic everywhere nga diba?