PASTILLAS, BROOMS, AND GIANT SPOONS AND FORKS: ADVENTURES IN METRO MANILA AND THE PHILIPPINES
Here we will try our best to document snippets of this great city's every day life - its stories, its rumors, its unusual sights and sounds (and smell, if need be!) - things that can easily become tomorrow's urban legends though not necessarily the scary kind.
To a city that has a great past, a colorful present, and an - uhm - unforseeable future, we dedicate the things we have seen and heard in Manila. Once again, welcome and Mabuhay!
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3 comments:
You might be surprised to learn that the same happened during my wedding. I had to perform a traditional dance in a little barrio in Bicol while people where pinning money on my clothes. I didn't collected many P 500 bills ;-)
It was 14 years ago but I know they still have this tradition there.
They won't be giving you large bills because you are a foreigner, Sidney, he he! Wow, it must be so much fun for you to have experienced a local wedding - your own!- first hand.
In my Nanay's province, I used to witness these traditional weddings where the Ninongs and Ninangs were obliged to put bills on the clothes of the groom and bride. Lately though, they have taken a modern approach to weddings, and I do agree with you, it is a fast disappearing tradition!
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