Purple Ati-Atihan at Kalibo Aklan

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Purple Ati-Atihan at Kalibo Aklan

Monday, January 19, 2009

This weekend I went to Kalibo, Aklan to witness the celebration of their Ati-Atihan festival for the feast of Sr. Sto. Nino. It’s a 4-hour bus ride from Iloilo City to Kalibo. For your information, Kalibo’s Ati-atihan festival is the mother of all festivals. Imagine, it’s already their 797th celebration!
I know it’s a bit shocking to some of you, you might not even heard of it even if your from the Philippines because Sinulog (Cebu) and Dinagyang (Iloilo) is more famous than Ati-atihan. As a proof, I watched Rated K (local tv show in the Phils.) last night, one of their topic is about festivals, they mentioned Sinulog and Dinagyang and what about Ati-atihan?? Nada! But that’s just Rated K.
Guess what?! I’ve seen Kat, Uma, Jason, the host of Trip na Trip (another local tv show) joining in on the celebration. I think they’ll feature this festival in one of their episodes. Just stay tuned!

Ok, for some of you, you already know that my blog is all about PURPLE! Well Ati-atihan festival is not about purple. What I did while I was in Kalibo is I took pictures of purple things. Hehehe!

Feast yourselves…

From the streets

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From the Exhibit

Pencil Case

Fan

Handbag

Shawl

Butterfly - For decoration

Pouch

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Notebook

From my BDAY!

Oh another cake..not from my bday though! hehe! This should be included in my previous post about PURPLE CAKES =)

Next stop… ILOILO DINAGYANG!!!
Come and celebrate wtih us this weekend, January 24-25. Just let me know if some of you is going to visit. =)

HALA BIRA ILOILO!!

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Previous Comments

Bongga! kuhang kuha mo sis! hehehehe..

purple is indeed, everywhere!

Posted by Rashid at January 20, 2009, 8:10 pm

sa akin ka sana sumama sa cebu for the sinulog festival.. mas maraming purple don ahaha.

Posted by glennj at January 21, 2009, 3:34 am

@Rashid, alert ang mata ko! Bsta may nkita akong purple, go, lingon agad! haha!

@glennj, akala ko nga nauna ung Sinulog eh, usually kasi hindi sila sabay na tatlo. Sayang sana npuntahan ko rin pra 3 sila present ako! hehe..

Posted by purpleworm at January 21, 2009, 1:19 pm

Hey, thanks for the comment and for dropping by, i hope i could visit that place too, nice shots by the way. pro?

Posted by Marlon at January 21, 2009, 3:25 pm

Nice purple things you captured. Pag nagpunta ba ako sa Dinagyang, pwede bang makitira sa inyo. J/k.

Posted by Tom at January 21, 2009, 4:37 pm

you are passing off some of the non-purple stuff as being purple. But as always very beautiful stuff.

Posted by lvs at January 21, 2009, 5:54 pm

@Marlon, pro? no! noob pa lng and wla pko slr na camera. hehe… Thanks for the comment as well. =)

@Tom, hanapan nlng kita ng hotel. hehe.. maliit lng bahay nmin eh. wehehe..

@Ivs, according to my eyes they are purple. hehe.. Purple have different shades anyway, it’s really hard to pin point what the real purple shade is. Anyways, thanks Ivs!

Posted by purpleworm at January 21, 2009, 10:15 pm

i wish na may ngeexist na purple city hehehe cute ng purplee waaaaaaa nice pics u got sis i went to kalibo may of last year hehehe kalibo airport lang

Posted by yeine at January 22, 2009, 10:35 pm

@Yeine, thanks sis! yeah me too hope there’s a purple city. hehehe… Dumeretso ka ng bora noh?

Posted by purpleworm at January 23, 2009, 8:08 pm

Grabe toh! Baka color blind ka na ha? Puro purple na lang ang nakikita mo, hehe..

Posted by ark at January 23, 2009, 9:28 pm

@ark, hindi pa nmn. haha! alert lng pg may nkitang purple. Notice agad! loL!

Posted by purpleworm at January 24, 2009, 2:20 pm

wow, it’s a really old festival! that’s what I was amazed about the Philippines = you’ve got sooo many festivals! great!

Posted by nenoneno at January 26, 2009, 11:16 pm

wew!
late na q ah..
:D
cei, why won’t you compose a song like this?

Eiffel 65 Station

Blue Lyrics

yo listen up here’s a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and his self
and everybody around
cos he ain’t got nobody to listen to

i’m blue da ba dee da ba die…

i have a blue house with a blue window.
blue is the colour of all that i wear.
blue are the streets and all the trees are blue.
i have a girlfriend and she is so blue.
blue are the people here that walk around,
blue like my corvette, it’s standing outside.
blue are the words i say and what i think.
blue are the feelings that live inside me.

i’m blue da ba dee da ba die…

inside and outside blue his house
with the blue little window and blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hiss elf
and everybody around cause he aint got
nobody to listen to

i’m blue da ba dee da ba die…

I’m blue (if I was green I would die)

———
ahahaha
a purple version for you
:D

Posted by Laurence at January 30, 2009, 1:48 pm

@laurence, hahaha… nice idea! why don’t you compose it for me? hehe.. thanks lau!

Posted by purpleworm at January 30, 2009, 2:42 pm

you know i’m not good at composing..i’ll ask tito ogie to do it for me..ahahaha

Posted by Laurence at February 1, 2009, 2:36 pm

THANKS FOR THIS… BUT YOU DID NOT GET A SHOT OF THE PURPLE TRICYCLE OF KALIBO. ITS ACTUALLY THE OFFICIAL COLOR OF THE TOWN.

VIVA! MAAYAD-AYAD NGA AGTO!

Posted by IRIS at February 10, 2009, 1:22 pm

@iris, yeah i agree. I missed that one! Maybe I’m just too overwhelmed about the purple tricycle that I forgot to take a picture of it since its already everywhere. hehe.. Thanks for the comment iris!

Posted by purpleworm at February 10, 2009, 3:17 pm

hello. is there such a purple ati-atihan?

Posted by Dane at June 8, 2009, 10:56 am

@dane, ah no, wla. I just took pictures of purple things I saw at the festival.

Posted by purpleworm at June 8, 2009, 8:07 pm

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