I was walking at KDCA today with @gideongys for food hunting and to take some street photos around this area. But we got lucky by becoming witnesses to the first Mr. Gondoing event for this year's harvest festival, known as "Kaamatan" .
Hello everyone, I hope you have an awesome day today that is better than yesterday.
I posted some photos a year ago about the Kaamatan festival. It was a month-long festival in our place where every state will celebrate this festival, and the peak of this festival will be celebrated at KDCA Hall. You'll realise that some real-life friends in the HIVE community that come from my place will post an identical post that will mention this festival.
MR. GONDOHING
Usually there will be "Unduk Ngadau", the beauty pageant for the girls, "Sungadoi" , the singing contest, and "MRK," for Mr. Kaamatan, for the younger men. But this year, they include "Mr. Gondohing" for the state contest.
Those who win these titles every year will be listed in state history, which means your legacy will continue forever in this state. That's why everyone wants to win the title, so their name will be remembered forever.
We didn't know that Mr. Gondohing was being held in a small hall at KDCA. Yeah, we did hear about it from "Mr. Gondohing" or something about the proposal a few months ago, but we didn't know that it was being held this year.
We consider it lucky that we come to that place when they just want to announce the winner. We try to take some photos, but we know that we cannot come near the stage because they have their official photographer taking their photo.
This is the closest photo that we can take , hope you gonna love it .
The first runner up getting his prize from the organizer :
The winner of the event , too bad i can only take from his back .
The winner , 1st and 2nd runner up .
Just for everyone's information, those who join Mr. Gondohing are those who are over 50 (if I am not mistaken). Some of them were old and reflected the old times of our culture. For me, they were the people who deserved to be known as the warriors who had fought the enemy a long time ago.
I hope the state will appreciate them because I believe they deserve it. More budget to get to know the history is slowly being lost because they are getting older.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoy this series. See you in another post. Cheers.
