Xmas in the Philippines is quite an event in most places, just not here on Mindanao. I live in the central portion of the east coast and while we have no Muslims, less than 3,000 in our five province region, we have a whole lot of Animists and a whole lot of Maoists. Even the Catholics and the main Protestant denominations are infested with Liberation Theology.
My inlaws don't do the tree thing though my father in law is a very spiritual man. Indeed, when I met him, he was on a pilgimage to Jerusalem. The biggest difference on Xmas, or rather Xmas Season, is that homemade foods are on sale and I love cheese ice cream, sort of like a cheesecake flavour. Filipinos are like most SE Asians and can't stomach dairy products, the "cheese" commonly available is oil based artificial nonsense.I buy Aussie cheddar at Swiss Market, the big expat market in Davao City, but, not much else is available. During Xmas Season however, a Tsinoy (Filipino of Chinese descent) woman down the road gets goat milk from yours truly, and makes many gallons of cheese icecream.
Asians like weird flavours. The preferred dessert here is Halo Halo (pronounced Hollow-Hollow). A parfait glass is filled with shaved ice, red beans, yellow corn kernals, sweet syrup, cubes of fluorescent coloured Jello, scoop of ice cream, and whipped cream on top. They love that vile shit! The most popular icecream flavour is Ube (oo-bay), a violet coloured mess. Ubes are a native tuber, akin to sweet potato and if sweet potato is your thing, go for it
I gave myself a bit of a treat though, some Snickers, three bars cost a days wage for most labourers here. For "dessert" though, I will take my last two bottles of methadone instead of morphine. Morphine has me dosing every 8 hours with a lot of peaks and valleys. Methadone is one gulp and I'm good for 36 hours. I dose 360 mgs of Instant Release morphine and try to limit two dosages, 360 in the morning, at daybreak, and 360 at 3PM to 4PM, for the second dose, making it every 12 hours instead of the 6 to 8 that most do. Each bottle of methadone is 220mg of cherry methadose, a horrible concentrate that tastes poisonous, even when diluted with water. The 440 mgs two bottles offer will keep me straight until 8AM, Tuesday, December 27th. Cheers!
My inlaws don't do the tree thing though my father in law is a very spiritual man. Indeed, when I met him, he was on a pilgimage to Jerusalem. The biggest difference on Xmas, or rather Xmas Season, is that homemade foods are on sale and I love cheese ice cream, sort of like a cheesecake flavour. Filipinos are like most SE Asians and can't stomach dairy products, the "cheese" commonly available is oil based artificial nonsense.I buy Aussie cheddar at Swiss Market, the big expat market in Davao City, but, not much else is available. During Xmas Season however, a Tsinoy (Filipino of Chinese descent) woman down the road gets goat milk from yours truly, and makes many gallons of cheese icecream.
Asians like weird flavours. The preferred dessert here is Halo Halo (pronounced Hollow-Hollow). A parfait glass is filled with shaved ice, red beans, yellow corn kernals, sweet syrup, cubes of fluorescent coloured Jello, scoop of ice cream, and whipped cream on top. They love that vile shit! The most popular icecream flavour is Ube (oo-bay), a violet coloured mess. Ubes are a native tuber, akin to sweet potato and if sweet potato is your thing, go for it
I gave myself a bit of a treat though, some Snickers, three bars cost a days wage for most labourers here. For "dessert" though, I will take my last two bottles of methadone instead of morphine. Morphine has me dosing every 8 hours with a lot of peaks and valleys. Methadone is one gulp and I'm good for 36 hours. I dose 360 mgs of Instant Release morphine and try to limit two dosages, 360 in the morning, at daybreak, and 360 at 3PM to 4PM, for the second dose, making it every 12 hours instead of the 6 to 8 that most do. Each bottle of methadone is 220mg of cherry methadose, a horrible concentrate that tastes poisonous, even when diluted with water. The 440 mgs two bottles offer will keep me straight until 8AM, Tuesday, December 27th. Cheers!
