November 1 - All Saints Day

It's being celebrated annually,and being declared as public holiday - November 1,All Saints Day.People from all over the Philippines gathered all together to visit the tombs of our departed loved ones.It's also the time that relatives who're living far away from each other get reunited again.Different cemeteries are jam-packed by people.

This morning,me together with my 11yr old son,elder sister and her 2 daughters went our way to visit my father's tomb at the Manila North Cemetery,we went there at 10am,there were lots of people who were just going inside the cemetery and lots were already leaving too,some were already there since Nov.30,they went there earlier to avoid the traffic of people.A lot of policemen were deployed all over the place to make sure everything is alright,i even saw some k9,red cross,media,but one thing i noticed,in every corner,every sidewalk,there were lots of vendors,food stalls.it's like you're in a mall....lol.pizza,lechon,doughnuts,sizzling,odd balls,name it and you'll have it.it only proved that filipinos really love to eat and afraid of starving :-)

I heard from the news that the number of people who went to the Manila North Cemetery alone were more or less 3Million.and im glad that there were only few incidents reported about people who were arrested for drinking alcohol and gambling.I was a little apprehensive while we were shoving our way past the people going inside the cemetery,i had some weird thinking, what if some mentally-ill people thought of throwing a bomb there,surely,there will be lots of innocent people will get killed including us.I thank God we all went home in one piece.Thank God also that the event went all well.

Also,it's not only that we are celebrating this occasion yearly to remember the death of our love ones,we're also celebrating my mother's 75th birthday.

Happy Birthday to my Nanay!!!