What a night it was. Whole city turned into Las Vegas for three nights here.
For those of you not familiar with Hindu culture, this is the time to celebrate the victory of good over evil and various other things, the festival of lights also known as Diwali and Dipawali down south. In latin or something, guess it’ll be called a “photo festival”…
Funny culture, first day is the day of Crows, where “there’s no crows to be seen anywhere”. They’ve all magically disappeared… Nevertheless, I saw plenty of those black screeqing birds. Well, next day Dogs are celebrated by smearing their head and feet in red vermillion and third day (which was yesterday) is the first of the three proper holidays and the god Laxmi is worshiped. She’s the god of money and business, so hope she’ll smile at us this year! Sabina did her best (photo above). It was also the day of Cows, and today is the day of Oxens. And tomorrow, it’s “Bhai Tikka”, where sisters take pleasure in giving their brothers “tikka”, the red vermillion coloured rice, in their foreheads. Little brothers travel from all across the country in order to get this tikka. All very significant and an auspicious occasion…
Anyway, yesterday I had one of those rare days where I didn’t have 17 things I had to do. I’ve finished a little update of my web site, put some slideshows on there and there’s also the result of my little experimental photo collaboration project, Celebration of Eid around the World (link removed, my new site is here). Have a look…
And oh, here's Subic "dancing" in a firecracker...
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