easter reflections
i never really fully understood the connection of easter eggs, easter bunnies and easter egg hunt to the christian feast celebrating jesus christ’s rising from the dead. and having celebrated easter here in singapore, i got even more confused. over the easter weekend, we saw lots of people go and visit and offer gifts to their dead and burn pieces of paper. although perhaps that was an entirely different commemoration that didn’t have anything to do with easter and was just a date coincidence. or qingming, the chinese all souls’ day held in advance? oh well…
for jan, easter is like a mini christmastime, just that instead of the nikolaus, it’s the easter bunny bringing the goodies. sometimes i feel a bit worried perpetrating these illusions. when it eventually sinks in that there really is no santa claus, and that bunnies couldn’t care less about colored eggs, it’s gonna be one major letdown.
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6 Responses to “easter reflections”
March 24th, 2008 at
hmmm… tanda ko parang bandang august ang qingming ah. oh well, what do I know.
mas pleasurable na ang concept ng mga bata sa easter ngayon, with the easter egg hunt and all, kahit sa Pinas. yung mga pamangkin ko, they look forward to that. samantalang ako, lumaki sa pasyon… hahaha!
March 25th, 2008 at
jet, iba pa yung august. ghost month yon, di ba?
March 25th, 2008 at
a yun ba yun? nagsusunog din kasi sila ng mga papel sa drum nun, tanda ko e
March 26th, 2008 at
while i was looking at your cartoon candy I naalala ko yung ginagawa nung 5 year-old anak ng office mate ko sa tindahan ng lola nya… he’d take the bunnies and the fish and cut off the ears and tails kasi trip nya lang. Kaya kung me bibili ng candy na yun madidisappoint yung batang buyer kasi ala nang tenga at buntot yung makukuha nya. tsk tsk…
March 26th, 2008 at
bambit, my mom used to have a store too when i was little, at naku, sa dami ng mga damages because of me, sumasakit ulo ng nanay ko, haha!
November 18th, 2008 at
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