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The Siquijor community center was a true community center. I played basketball and ping pong there, watched people pay their electricity bills, watched graduation ceremonies, the police office was upstairs, etc. and then there was this event:
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Free circumcision! Come one, come all!
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The setup
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Excitement! "I´m next! I´m next!"
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Ping pong in the same place
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Ping pong boys
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I had plenty of time and opportunity to take circumcision photos, but I was so nauseated by this that I just shot a few pix and got out of there.
I asked someone why there was such a crowd and they said it was too expensive to have it done normally. People came from all over and they waited in line for hours.
(On a tangential note, this is a very big difference between Philippines and a place like Thailand, for example. It is virtually impossible to just ask a random person a question like that and have a conversation due to the language barrier.
I need to interact with locals, even if the subject is circumcision.)
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Notice the cringing toes on the boy
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Cockfighting. This is the national pastime of the Philippines, it seems. The birds are in cages or tethered everywhere. (Accordingly, no one gets any sleep in the Philippines.) People were really into it. Some had imported birds from America where supposedly the fiercest fighters are bred. (Who knew?) I went to a couple of fights. Lots of drunk people gambling, and yet no one minded me taking photos.
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The briefcase of the cockfighter
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A sharp blade is attached to the cock
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Near the end the man brings the birds together to see
if they both have some fight in them.
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Bloody, losing bird
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Bloody, losing bird
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Winning bird
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Sometimes I think the whole point is to bet
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Whoever runs the place is making major coin
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Lechon baboy (Roasted pig)
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Lechon baboy
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School transport
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If anything other than corruption and natural disasters represent classic Philippines, then it is these cars. I dumbly kept telling myself I would wait until my last day in Cebu to get the best jeepney photos I wanted, but I was rushed and only have these.
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Philippines
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