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Holy Week Schedule 2012

Holy Week is one of the most anticipated week here in the country. For Catholics, it means a week of renewing faith and celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. To some, it means long vacation and a time to relax and be with their family.

Today marks the start of Lent Season, Ash Wednesday (February 22, 2012). Jesus spent 40 days fasting before his public ministry begins and during this time he endured temptations. Ash Wednesday signifies the start of the 40 day fasting and praying.

April 1, 2012 is Palm Sunday. It is a celebration that depicts the entrance of Jesus Christ at Jerusalem. When I was a kid, I always look forward to this day as a day before Palm Sunday we would be busy making our Palaspas (made from young coconut leaves).

TRIVIA: do you know where the ash used during Ash Wednesday came from? from last year’s palaspas! How do I know that? because the parish at my Lola’s province used to ask for our old Palaspas a few days before Ash Wednesday 🙂

April 2, 2012 is Holy Monday and April 3 is Holy Tuesday.

April 4, 2012 is Holy Wednesday

April 5, 2012 is Maundy Thrusday

April 6, 2012 is Good Friday

April 7, 2012 is Black Saturday and April 8, 2012 is Easter Sunday

I always look forward to Holy Week, not just because of the long Holiday but I just love this season. Brings back a lot of memories and make me still for a little while. In terms of photography, it is my dream to publish a photo book (and also get challenge coin, design inspired by one of the icon during the Holy Week procession) about Pinoy’s celebration of Holy Week.

Artworks With Faber-Castell Watercolour Pencils

Faber-Castell Watercolour Pencils is a art tool that is very close to my heart. It was in 2003 when my husband bought a set for me. It was expensive but more than that, the thought the he supports my hobby was overwhelming. And now that I am having another love affair with arts and crafts, this watercolour pencil is a must have.

Faber-Castell Watercolour Pencil is a color pencil that you can use to color your art works and turn it into a watercolor painting! It’s cool right? You start with a pencil color but you end up with a water color artworks. It can be bought in 12, 16 and 24 pencils set. The one I bought is the 24 Watecolour pencil sets which 300+ PhP at National Bookstore.

Earlier today, we had an art session and I let the boys experience the magic of Faber-Castell. I outlined a scene of their choice. Mico wants a man fishing while Mahat opted for a man looking out on his farm. I used Faber-Castell Colouring Pens (yes I love most FC products) and here’s the result of our Artsy Saturday:

Oh! I forgot to take a shot of the their art works when it was in pencil color phase….this was after they colored it with watercolour pencil then finished it using a wet brush.

Our next art session will include drawing using pencil and some techniques on shading, to make their drawing look real 🙂 Oh I hope my boys will turn better than me on the art department 🙂

Lessons With Ukelele

While I was uploading my Mahat’s Choral recitation video, I tweaked my youtube account and found this:

That was my first born doing his rendition of Tayong Dalawa 🙂 taken using my Motorala V8 (oh how I love that fone!) I even saw their videos singing The Jerks’ Reklamo ng Reklamo using the guitars we gave them as a gift… reminds of the guitar we got them a few years back..

It was in 2007 when we bought their guitars, as a gift for my first born’s birthday. And as a rule, Mico and Kieth will have a guitar too. Hubby bought a real guitar for Mahat and bought ukeleles for the younger boys. He bought it at raon in Quiapo. It was a bit expensive, but of course new Electric Guitars is still more expensive. Little we did know, ukeleles can be bought at Greenhills for a much lower price. The ukelele he bought at Raon costed him 800 PhP (4oo each) where in Greenhills, a smaller version can be bought for only 120 or 150 PhP. To think that the ukeleles did not even last for months, we should have gotten the cheaper alternative.