Today is the end of Ramadan. Early this morning I was awaken by gunshots. (as was the common practice of the local muslims here) This year however, the unscrupulous firing was a little bit lessen. Maybe there was less prolificatiion of firearms? or maybe these people now knew where the bullets actually fall? Mostly at the homes of their poorer brothers' shanties. However I heard quite loudly several rounds of automatic fires of armalites. They were long and continous. I hate to say they sounded quite near where we are staying. Why can't these firing practices be out-lawed?
Today, many Muslims practice alms giving and they also eat festively. Sometimes we are happy to get some delicacies like pastil (rice with shreded chicken wrapped and cooked in banana leaves), dudol (sweet sticky violet gulatinous rice cake), tinagtag (rice rolled fries) and the likes..... truly....I say Happy Ramadan to all the true faithfuls.
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