curse
what a nightmare! here i am awake at 3:27am still in great want of sleep. i woke up gasping for breath from a bad dream. really terrible. i could've died in my sleep and i just celebrated my birthday two nights ago! :( thank God i;m still alive! In the morning, when everyone or anyone who's willing to listen is up, i'm going to indulge him/her with a full "uncut version" of my nightmare. why? because this way the curse will be broken..the bad dream wont come true, not ever. oh i know it's superstition but id still talk about it in the morning though with or without knowledge of the curse. well, most of it 'coz for sure some details will be forgotten by morning.
i think i had "urom". hayy el terrible! charr! hmmnn..maybe it's the coffee. i drank a cup of ice coffee that i bought from angelica's bakeshop ( hmmn business advertising!) or maybe ive become too fat. i had difficulty breathing when i woke. most women's fats gather in the hip and tummy area, maybe, mine, aside from those, also stock up in the neck blocking air passage in my esophagus (if that is where air passes through) hehe. it's scary though :(
ok so i was talking about curse. there is one curse that i learned only recently. i call it the curse of the kili-kili power. the driver of the free shuttle ride ( a govt funded public transpo that brings south bound passengers like me from leon kilat street to the citilink terminal for free) told me the story. i was sitting in the front seat and noticed that his multicab, eventhough the windows are open, had airconditioning on. it's not cold though, just a fan effect. then he started by telling me about the young, handsome looking dude who sat in the front seat with him one day. when he turned his airconditioning on, he found it his responsibility to tell the dude that he has kili-kili power. i could only imagine the reaction of the dude coz the driver didnt seem like the type who could break any news gently. manong gave him his unsolicited advice of using tawas. the procedure goes like this: first layer of tawas is applied followed by a gentle rubbing of a lemonsito fruit. then top with one more layer of tawas. for those with kili-kili (ilok in bisaya) problems, "forget expensive brands" he said, it's either this tawas solution or it could be "limton". ( this is now the curse part, i have a problem with long introductions) at first, i thought manong driver meant lipton tea or maybe limton/limoton which means to forget. (wow, forget a problem as if it will just go away) this is actually of process which will break the sumpa. what the kili-kili master should do is put a coin in each kili-kili holding it close to the body and must not let it fall. then he must go to Kinasang-an in Pardo, Cebu City (kinasang-an is named such because it has roads that are nagsanga or branched out) to that point where the road divides. then, he would lift his arms up, and could stay this way forever because the moment the coins touch the ground the curse is lifted, and say bye bye to smelly ilok.
ive always wondered why some people are amazed with Kinasang-an. i mean, i could name a lot of eskinas and eskinitas...there are more eskinitas than islands in the philippines! (of course, duh!) maybe, the limton process is what makes kinasang-an Pardo special. because it helps in curing that natural smell we'd rather suppress. but maybe, manong is only making up stories for me, to entertan me coz he idolizes Kuya Germs and that's entertainment. hehe. but if it were "true", that this was practiced before, then i am lucky. he passed on to me an oral tradition about our culture and history that i couldnt have otherwise read or learned from books, magazines, not even the internet. :)
the FSi dabarkadz has its own curse. each member is single. my friendster status is screaming single! were the members destined to meet and become good friends in college so they can form the singles club? hehe is it just me or is Its Raining men a staple in every karaoke session? well, "pohon..pohon".(soon..soon).
*you know, pohon is another way of breaking a curse. example: you want to go to davao to visit a relative, you say "i will visit manong in davao, pohon." the logic behind this, if there really is any, is that we do not know what will happen in the future. we only know that it could either be good or bad. pohon when added to the sentence kinda wards off the evil forces or negative events that might prevent the trip to davao from happening as it wishes for good health, good weather, etc. because when you say, "i will visit manong in davao" only, it's as if you are sure that this will really happen, as if youre sure of the future. pohon, in my opinion, is a way of humbling ourselves, submitting ourselves to a higher power and asking for blessing. this is "tuo-tuo" or superstition.
*written 3:30am, now it's 6:13am. cant sleep. ngrrrr..
i think i had "urom". hayy el terrible! charr! hmmnn..maybe it's the coffee. i drank a cup of ice coffee that i bought from angelica's bakeshop ( hmmn business advertising!) or maybe ive become too fat. i had difficulty breathing when i woke. most women's fats gather in the hip and tummy area, maybe, mine, aside from those, also stock up in the neck blocking air passage in my esophagus (if that is where air passes through) hehe. it's scary though :(
ok so i was talking about curse. there is one curse that i learned only recently. i call it the curse of the kili-kili power. the driver of the free shuttle ride ( a govt funded public transpo that brings south bound passengers like me from leon kilat street to the citilink terminal for free) told me the story. i was sitting in the front seat and noticed that his multicab, eventhough the windows are open, had airconditioning on. it's not cold though, just a fan effect. then he started by telling me about the young, handsome looking dude who sat in the front seat with him one day. when he turned his airconditioning on, he found it his responsibility to tell the dude that he has kili-kili power. i could only imagine the reaction of the dude coz the driver didnt seem like the type who could break any news gently. manong gave him his unsolicited advice of using tawas. the procedure goes like this: first layer of tawas is applied followed by a gentle rubbing of a lemonsito fruit. then top with one more layer of tawas. for those with kili-kili (ilok in bisaya) problems, "forget expensive brands" he said, it's either this tawas solution or it could be "limton". ( this is now the curse part, i have a problem with long introductions) at first, i thought manong driver meant lipton tea or maybe limton/limoton which means to forget. (wow, forget a problem as if it will just go away) this is actually of process which will break the sumpa. what the kili-kili master should do is put a coin in each kili-kili holding it close to the body and must not let it fall. then he must go to Kinasang-an in Pardo, Cebu City (kinasang-an is named such because it has roads that are nagsanga or branched out) to that point where the road divides. then, he would lift his arms up, and could stay this way forever because the moment the coins touch the ground the curse is lifted, and say bye bye to smelly ilok.
ive always wondered why some people are amazed with Kinasang-an. i mean, i could name a lot of eskinas and eskinitas...there are more eskinitas than islands in the philippines! (of course, duh!) maybe, the limton process is what makes kinasang-an Pardo special. because it helps in curing that natural smell we'd rather suppress. but maybe, manong is only making up stories for me, to entertan me coz he idolizes Kuya Germs and that's entertainment. hehe. but if it were "true", that this was practiced before, then i am lucky. he passed on to me an oral tradition about our culture and history that i couldnt have otherwise read or learned from books, magazines, not even the internet. :)
the FSi dabarkadz has its own curse. each member is single. my friendster status is screaming single! were the members destined to meet and become good friends in college so they can form the singles club? hehe is it just me or is Its Raining men a staple in every karaoke session? well, "pohon..pohon".(soon..soon).
*you know, pohon is another way of breaking a curse. example: you want to go to davao to visit a relative, you say "i will visit manong in davao, pohon." the logic behind this, if there really is any, is that we do not know what will happen in the future. we only know that it could either be good or bad. pohon when added to the sentence kinda wards off the evil forces or negative events that might prevent the trip to davao from happening as it wishes for good health, good weather, etc. because when you say, "i will visit manong in davao" only, it's as if you are sure that this will really happen, as if youre sure of the future. pohon, in my opinion, is a way of humbling ourselves, submitting ourselves to a higher power and asking for blessing. this is "tuo-tuo" or superstition.
*written 3:30am, now it's 6:13am. cant sleep. ngrrrr..
posted by turtlepace at 2:37 PM
2 Comments:
lol!
the kili-kili curse must be a penchant thing that attracted manong driver's sense of smell, but a sense of commodity. wahahahhaha
and yes, maka-receive kog text nmu gwaps. diri lang ko reply kay wa koi load. heheh! kapuyan naman kog paminaw anang issues ni gma oi... magwait na lng ko mapresident na si clang2x and maghimo dayn tag FSI Scandal. :p
OMG! now im cursed!
sigeg kog enter2x ug wrong letter. wahahahah
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