Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

The Catholic majority here will celebrate Easter Sunday by going to church (which will be more festive than usual). The covered image of the cross (signifying death of Christ) will also be uncovered.

However, Catholics here prefer to celebrate the Passion and Death of Christ more than Easter. I guess people here like all that drama. The image of the Sorrowful Mother (Dolorosa) is especially significant. And of course, self-flagellation and actual crucifixions is practiced particularly on Good Friday. I guess this make the country one of those places where sado-masochism is publicly celebrated!

Good Friday, all our barangay had was the procession of the Nazareno, the Dolorosa and the Santo Entierro. Nothing too fancy like the flagellants in Quiapo and Baclaran or the Crucifixions in San Fernando, Pampanga.

In the meantime, Trevor got lots of time to plant seeds and vegetable stems from the food we bought at the supermarket last Wednesday. Shops were closed Thursday and Friday. Even the halo-halo lady stationed along the sidewalk fronting our apartment didn’t work on Friday. But Saturday we could hear her shaving ice again the whole day.

I was able to get three balls of beige crochet thread today. There were only three left in the large basket. I hope that would be enough to finish the piece I’m working on now, which I’m not quite sure if it’s going to be a shirt or a dress!

At the book store I was able to get two Japanese hobbies and craft magazines, particularly two issues that had crochet in them. It was quite cheap, 85 pesos each, compared to English-language crochet or knitting books that cost from 400 pesos to 1,000 pesos. Although I can’t read Japanese it didn’t matter because luckily I could understand the patterns and symbols.

One magazine had an English subtitle “Organic Cotton for Baby” and had these really nice and soft crocheted shoes, clothes, socks and toys for baby. I’m not planning to have a baby but I got the magazine because the patterns were really pretty. The other magazine had no English subtitle. I bought it anyway because it had instructions for crocheting bags using nylon ribbons (made by an industrial company specializing in agricultural films (probably eco-friendly plastics) called CI kasei), which comes in really handy since I just bought three balls of blue nylon threads from the hardware store last Wednesday.

By the way, Hamanaka have free patterns thru http://www.hamanaka.co.jp/make/index.html In Japanese of course!

So am now back to crocheting work!

And if I get better at this I’d like to put all the original patterns I’ve made online together with the finished works. Sometime Trevor and I hope to go to Quiapo to check out if there are good thread and yarn shops … here, there seem to be only two types of crochet materials - the bulky acrylic craft yarn and the 4-ply thread. It would be nice to get the really soft mohair and silky fine thread …

Surprisingly, I was even able to do some more serious writing work this Holy Week, in particular Finding Linux, the first of my series of Linux misadventures. But that’s nothing really compared to my friend Eric who just finished editing their latest television show and Gardy who’s driving himself crazy preparing for the Loboc Children’s Choir Concert in Manila and the US!

Thank goodness I’m “retired”!

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