bisperas ng pasko
24 December 2008 11:27 amAs I was staring off into space this morning, I suddenly remembered that the Tagalog word for Christmas, pasko, came from the word pascua, which (oddly enough) is Spanish for Easter.
So how did Easter become Christmas in the Philippines? We may never know the exact etymological route that word undertook, but I'd like to think it's because of the symbolism inherent in the two Christian holidays. Christmas is the celebration1 of Jesus' birth, while Easter is the celebration of his re-birth. Christmas is our Easter, then, a time when we celebrate the coming of Jesus Christ in the world. Which sort of makes sense, if you squint and you tilt your head just so.
In any case, whether or not what I wrote above made sense, I'd like to greet you all a Maligayang Pasko!
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1. Maybe I should have used the word "commemoration". Hmm. Must think on this.
So how did Easter become Christmas in the Philippines? We may never know the exact etymological route that word undertook, but I'd like to think it's because of the symbolism inherent in the two Christian holidays. Christmas is the celebration1 of Jesus' birth, while Easter is the celebration of his re-birth. Christmas is our Easter, then, a time when we celebrate the coming of Jesus Christ in the world. Which sort of makes sense, if you squint and you tilt your head just so.
In any case, whether or not what I wrote above made sense, I'd like to greet you all a Maligayang Pasko!
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1. Maybe I should have used the word "commemoration". Hmm. Must think on this.
the golden compass
6 December 2007 07:02 amI watched The Golden Compass with my mom last night. I didn't write about it then 'cause I was cramming for PSY104. xD
( so, yeah. thoughts. )
( so, yeah. thoughts. )
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25 May 2006 11:51 pmMy sister is currently hogging the phone line, so I can't connect to the Net right now. :( This calls for a long entry!
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I watched X3 yesterday with Christine, Chris, She-she and Elmo. The movie was nice, although then ending all but screamed, THERE'S GOING TO BE A SEQUEL!!!
( X3 ramblings. GO ME! )
We roamed around the mall a bit after the movie. Time Crisis II is addicting, although the "guns" used are heavy. T_T Also, playing air hockey was fun, especially since I found out that I haven't lost my skills at all when I won. XD
We also slept over at Chris' house (with the exception of Elmo), where we watched DVDs (that was when we all concurred that the actor who played Scipio in Thief Lord has a smexy voice XD), ate a lot, and played Balderdash until our brains turned to mush. :D
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A trivia I picked up after playing Balderdash:
There's this film called The Black Shampoo, which is about an African-American hairdresser who wages a vendetta against the Mafia with a chainsaw. (The dudes who created the game said that they double-check their sources, so that means the movie in question is for real...)
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I don't check my mail for 36 hours, and lo! - 23 spam mail messages are waiting for me. I get more spam mail than ordinary mail, which is why I miss hotmail more and more, because I never really had to see the spam and junk mail, since MSN automatically filters them out...
So goodbye to the house by the lake in the park, and the girl in the little green hat!
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I watched X3 yesterday with Christine, Chris, She-she and Elmo. The movie was nice, although then ending all but screamed, THERE'S GOING TO BE A SEQUEL!!!
( X3 ramblings. GO ME! )
We roamed around the mall a bit after the movie. Time Crisis II is addicting, although the "guns" used are heavy. T_T Also, playing air hockey was fun, especially since I found out that I haven't lost my skills at all when I won. XD
We also slept over at Chris' house (with the exception of Elmo), where we watched DVDs (that was when we all concurred that the actor who played Scipio in Thief Lord has a smexy voice XD), ate a lot, and played Balderdash until our brains turned to mush. :D
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A trivia I picked up after playing Balderdash:
There's this film called The Black Shampoo, which is about an African-American hairdresser who wages a vendetta against the Mafia with a chainsaw. (The dudes who created the game said that they double-check their sources, so that means the movie in question is for real...)
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I don't check my mail for 36 hours, and lo! - 23 spam mail messages are waiting for me. I get more spam mail than ordinary mail, which is why I miss hotmail more and more, because I never really had to see the spam and junk mail, since MSN automatically filters them out...
So goodbye to the house by the lake in the park, and the girl in the little green hat!