Not so holy ...

Holy week. That one spiritual week in a year when Filipino Catholics / Christians reflect upon their actions, if I'm correct this is also the period of the year when crime rates are at it's lowest (hey, thieves got to reflect to you know).

Every year our family usually joins traditional meaningful activities like visita iglesias, processions and stuff ... it was not different this year. We had our visita iglesia on Maundry Thursday, and attended a 7 last words mass on Good Friday.

Before the holy week started I bought a huge number of DVDs to watch, as we don't have fast internet at home (in fact I'm typing at a net cafe at a mall right now, because I can't stand the slowness of dial up). It seems like the devil had a different idea for us that day, as we've mistakenly chosen the movie Lust / Caution as an action flick. I've heard the movie to be controversial, and had received a number of awards ... I should have taken the title literally! and heeded the word "caution" on the movie title. Because instead of being treated to what we expected to be either an action flick or a re-enacment of significant cultural history, I watched what can be described as a X-rated porn flick with my parents on a Good Friday!!!! :S

Was it a good movie? Yeah, I thought it was ... but the timing and the company I had watching it couldn't have been worse. Cripes! what was I thinking? It felt like everyone just waited for someone to kill the dvd player or suggest to watch another movie, but it would just make the situation more awkward so no one did so. It was my own "penitensya" this year, as I cringed when the full frontal sex scenes started (and oh there was more than 2 lasting for 5 minutes or so each ... yaaargh!!!!).

I'm just glad that's over.

Anyway, Happy Easter everyone!!! :D