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It’s the day of eggs, rabbits, and most specially for us Christians, we celebrate today the resurrection of the Lord, Jesus Christ. However, this year Easter is celebrated on different dates. March 23 western countries and April 27 on eastern countries. But even if our country is located on the east, we still celebrate Easter today, since it marks the end of this weeks’ holy week.

In predominantly Roman Catholic Philippines, the morning of Easter (known in the national language as “Pasko ng Muling Pagkabuhay” or the Pasch of the Resurrection) is marked with joyous celebration, the first being the dawn “Salubong,” wherein large statues of Jesus and Mary are brought together to meet, imagining the first reunion of Jesus and his mother Mary after Jesus’ Resurrection. This is followed by the joyous Easter Mass. [wiki]

Easter Eggs, after the break.
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Category: Anime Nation, Net Escape, Real World by Ryman
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White Day (ホワイトデー, howaito dē?, a Japanese pseudo-anglicism; Korean: 화이트데이 Hwaiteudei; Chinese: 白色情人節) is a holiday created in Japan (1980) in response to the holiday exactly one month ago, which is Valentines Day. It is celebrated on March 14. Japan, South Korea and Taiwan observe this holiday.

In Japan, Valentine’s Day is observed by members of the female gender who present chocolate gifts (either store-bought or handmade), usually to a member of the male gender, as an expression of love. On White Day, men who received a honmei-choco chocolate on Valentine’s Day are expected to return the favor by giving gifts, usually more expensive. Sometimes the term sanbai kaeshi (三倍返し, sanbai kaeshi? literally, “thrice the return”) is used to describe the generally recited rule that the return gift should be two- to three-times the cost of the Valentine’s gift.

There are many theories about the origins of White Day. According to one, the holiday began in 1965 when a marshmallow maker started marketing to men on the grounds that they should pay back the women who gave them chocolate and other gifts with marshmallows. [wiki]

I notice this tradition in some anime/j-dorama videos I watch. I wonder why most of the males try hard not to get a gift from a girl. Then I realized that, it is because, if they receive (specially if they are popular) too many gifts from the opposite gender, they will end up repaying all of them on White Day.

Category: J Culture, Real World by Ryman
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