Sunday, November 1, 2009

All Saints Day



Nov 1st was the all saints day where we celebrate the day to remember our relatives and family members that crossed over and had their peaceful life in the other side of the world.

My mom cooked spaghetti, green rice, and that's all i can remember.Furthermore,before, we used to go to the cemetery in early afternoon, but this days, we go to the graveyard, during night time. We left home at around 7.20 pm and headed to the gas station. I thought that, that night would be a peaceful road, less traffic and no more people in the street. But i was wrong, 3 minutes ahead of us, or i can say, 500 meters away, i can see lights that were not moving, and i say to my mom and bro, that this was it. The beginning of an hour traffic. And i was not wrong, our car or everybody moved so slow, and we were stocked at around 7.54 pm in the traffic jam and before we reached the cemetery there were so many events.

What i saw was good and bad cars were stranded beside the road, maybe, just an assumption that their cars were not starting anymore. And what funny was that, there was a much older car than ours in front of us, where it moves so slow. It was another 500 meters near the Rolling Hills (cemetery) , it stopped at the middle of the traffic, and i wondered why it was not moving since there were no more cars ahead of him. Then i saw this man, he came out of the car while the rest of the family members maybe has this shyness feeling, they stayed inside the car, while that man was pushing the car beside the road. We were laughing, because i said that maybe this time, our car will be the next to pull over.

But luckily we did not had any engine trouble. While we were on our way to the cemetery gate, we saw and heard this big explosion, then a fireball in the sky, the size of the fireball would be approximately 2 yards, more or less. Then my twin brother stepped out of the car, and told us that he will be texting us once he knew what happened in that area. So i drove slowly, since i was hesitant to go near that area, we thought it was a car explosion. But later on, i saw i post with fire, then i received my brother message that it was just the power transformer that blew up. So i drive a little faster than before, going inside the cemetery.

We stayed there until, 11.00 in the evening and then left home. There were many people in there, but unlike before, we do not have a chance to find any parking space, but last night, there were so many parking spaces. My mom was busy talking to here known relative in the cemetery, while i was busy sitting on the grass for almost 2 hours.

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