This is my barangay's entry to the annual Kapampangan Christmas fair dubbed Ligligan Parul.
There were 8 contenders for this year's competition. And, just like last year (and the years before it), I missed on yet another visual fiesta.
Good thing there's CLTV 36! Their live coverage of the event, sort of alleviated my years of longing to witness the Ligligan. At least I got to see the other barangay's parul sans human trafficking (literally) and the nearby temptation which spells 'mall'.
Anyway, being the shutterwhore that I was, here are some snapshots when I went to see 'test light' of Telabastagan's parul entry. I kept trying to squeeze my face in my puny digicam's viewfinder just so to have a snapshot of 'me and the parul' , but my efforts were futile.
While I got so caught up watching the parul at the forefront, my husband pointed to the back of the truck. And there's a much bigger show going on there. Just behind the parul is a group of men turning the cylinders at the back of the truck. These were the men who drove the parul to grandeur. Unfortunately, I forgot the save the image on my finger disk, ergo, no file image. But I'll try to post it here some time, if I don't forget.
An interesting bit of a trivia: did you know that a monstrous number of hairpins is needed to make the parul light up? The pins were attached to Kingkong cylinders (they're huge!), and that's all I knew of it. The men were too busy to explain technical things to an onlooker. And besides, I wasn't worth the multi-tasking, and the humiliation in case they screw up. I guess I could wait till the competition's over. And what do you know, I was actually standing in front of this year's grand champion. Telabastagan 's parul is this year's best bet, with openable midpart of the Nativity Scene and this "reminder" for the finale:
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