Kimchi

Once upon a time in Baguio, more specifically in our neighborhood in New Lucban, in front of the house of retired city fiscal Benny Carantes, there was a chapel ministered by a Korean couple. This was a time when you can count the number of Koreans in Baguio in less than a minute. Most of this Christian Korean couple’s parishioners then came from Bayabas in La Trinidad. One time, they decided that one particular October night is the end of the world. So they were all praying and crying so loud that Fiscal Carantes came out in his pajamas maybe saying, WTF? It was the eve of the end of the world, I told him. Then the next day, there was no end of the world. The parishioners from Bayabas were so angry that they took whatever they can from the chapel (which is now a billiard den) and destroyed what they could not. Read more