Halloween- Filipino Style

For us Filipinos, spending the day with our departed family members in the cemeteries is a fun event after of course the prayers, lighting candles, mass offerings and flowers. Its a sort of mini-reunion for families and friends and a chance to have an acquaintance with those people that we see only once a year in the memorial park.




Tables, chairs and tents are set up in front of the grave sites so that the family and their visitors can stay and talk. They bring along laptops, cd players to provide entertainment and board games.





Foods and drinks are also overflowing during this time but if you run out of food stuff, candles and even flowers, vendors are all around the cemetery to provide for your needs. It saves the family members the hassle of bringing these things plus it provides extra income for these vendors. Food stalls of Greenwich, Chowking and many others are already set-up at Everlasting Memorial Park when we visited my mother's grave yesterday.