Passengers caught stunned and frightened. Negative ideas rule on everyone's head.They might be an orchestrated syndicate victimizing commuters.Robbers looking for preys. Juvenile deliquents on the streets still in hangovers. They could be the negative elements of our society.
Everybody wants to step down from the vehicle, anticipating an unusual event could happen anytime.But when these people hanging on the jeepneys start chanting the hymns of the holidays. Sigh of relief for all.
They are the jeepney carolers. Adolescents trying to feel the spirit of the season through their songs. They run after the moving vehicles. Cling like spiders. Complete with paraphernalias specifically bottle crowns strung in wires. It served as their caracas and chimes. They sing a couple of songs to entertain the passengers hoping the kind-hearted ones would draw out coins from their pockets. "Daygon" as what we call it, done on a broad daylight.
If my memory would not fail me, people do the "daygon" only during the evening, days upcoming Christmas Day.They move from one house to another to spread the holiday spirit in the form of songs. The owners of the house in turn,give something in kind or in cash. The children carolers usually get candies and biscuits.I never see jeepney carolers before.
Do the carolers now more innovative compared to the past years? Does it come with development that they practice at par with it?
So commuters, always prepare coins for the carolers who anytime will cross your path.
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