(Business Mirror) WITH less than a month away from the noche buena festivities, it’s an impossible wish for the rising prices of goods and commodities to be halted or reversed. Still, from most indications, inflation won’t triumph over tradition and family.
Noche buena or “good night” refers to the night of Christmas Eve. Filipinos are known to be lovers of the three F’s: family, food and festivities.
These three words are already been ingrained in the Filipino culture even as the pandemic dimmed the parol—a Filipino lantern displayed during the Christmas season, for two consecutive years.
In the last two years, despite being cooped up in their homes, Filipinos still managed to dress themselves and show up at the noche buena table, while catching up with relatives and friends via video call either by playing online games together or pretending to drink together through “e-numan.”… Read More