My Sinulog Experience

 Sinulog is one of the most popular festival here in the Philippines.There are many foreigners came here to witness the event.The main feature is a street parade with participants in bright coloured costumes dancing to the rhythm of drums,trumpets and native gongs.Smaller versions of the festival are held in various parts of the province, also to celebrate and honor the Santo Niño. There is also a "Sinulog sa Kabataan" performed by the youths of Cebu a week before the parade.

   

  People pushed forward. “Akong tiil! Ayaw kuno mo panukmod diha! (My feet! No pushing!)” a woman lashed out expletives at the crowd behind her. Inch by inch, the grand parade’s lane got narrower.

“Atras! Atras! (Move backward! Backward!)” someone would shout.  But the crowd often dismissed the futile attempts. It necessitated a figure of authority mounting a gigantic motorbike equipped with a wangwang to send the crowd backward.

Every time a gust passed through, the banderitas fluttered. From the gaps of the waving banderitas, dots of cumulus clouds meandered over the horizon. The shy showers that punctuated the third Sunday of January in the past years blurred my memory.

Four million visitors were expected at this year’s Sinulog. And the police officer on his humungous ride was one of the 10,000 police personnel and crowd control staff manning and guarding the grand event.

 

  I and my friends went in the Abellana to witness the contest in different corners of Cebu.We rejoice because of watching various custome of their queen contestant.I ask my friend this words "Pit Señor" and she answer was this why we say Pit Senyor when we greet people during the Sinulog Festival? - it is actually a Cebuano word called “Sampit” which means, “I will ask” the Senyor Sto. Niño.

  These is my first time to celebrate Sinulog here in Cebu and hopefully these is not the last time I here.