Gone but never Forgotten

This is an über late post, I'm sorry but I didn't have the time since I was too busy finishing my requirements. So here it goes..

While everybody is celebrating halloween on the other side of the world, we are celebrating UNDAS. Undas is where we go to the cemeteries to visit our loved ones grave. 

So expect that every Nov.1 or even as early as the last week of October all the cemeteries are jam packed.

Last October 31 and November 1, I stayed at the Rios to join them in remembering their loved ones since all our relatives who passed away were laid in our provinces. :[

Tinee told me that the schedule of visiting their relatives would be on October 31 for Tinee's Dad and on November 01 for Tinee's Mom.

Woke up around 6 A.M. on October 31 then went to the Rios since they will go to the cemetery at around 9 A.M.

Reached Holy Cross - Manila Memorial Park in Novaliches to visit the grave of the Lolo (Grandfather), Lola (Grandmother), Aunt and two Uncles of Tinee on her Dad's side

The Rios :] (w/o Papa & Mama)

Lola Bening's Grave ( she just passed away :[ )

This is how Filipinos celebrate Undas.
Sometimes, they even camp out in the cemeteries.

We offered flowers, lighted them candles & prayed for them, then went to Trinoma for lunch (maybe on a separate post).

The next day, we went to Loyola Memorial Park in Marikina to visit Tinee's Lolo on her Mother's side. We were late, because when we arrived her relatives were already praying the rosary.

I took pictures of the tomb stone of Tinee's Lolo because the letters which spelled his name were already gone missing. What kind of a human being steals from a dead person?

Only the D.O.B. is left :[ screw you stealers

Flowers to offer..

Such pretty flowers.. :]

Did the same thing, offered flowers and lighted Lolo Felicing candles. Ate lunch with Tinee's reatives, then went again to Trinoma for our monthsary date :].

Whenever someone passed away, whether they are close to me or not, I always tell myself that "life is too short, to be damn boring.. so make the most out of it." LOL! :]

Toodles..

When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.  ~ Author Unknown