Expensive Preparation For His Coming?

If Paris is the City of Lights ... Ilonggos hope they don't mind if Iloilo City borrows this sobriquet only this Christmas - for how else could you describe a city whose ostentatious display of lights exceeded one's expectations.  A friend who has a penchant for hyperbole and exaggeration fired back to him the preparation had reached a blasphemous degree ... (or was it sacrilegious?)  To him, it was almost disrespectful and obscene because it was not in synch with humbleness ... the very first teaching Jesus wants us to imbibe this Christmas.

I don't blame his rhetorics ... because of his viewpoint and mindset that Jesus was teaching humanity humility and modesty... why Jesus Christ had to be born in a manger ... why his first visitors were shepherds ... why he was surrounded by lambs and animals, etc.

We just let him ... but the lights and sounds were just so breathless ... it is plain idiocy to ignore what was going around ... whether the NOW generation chooses extravagance over being economical ... wasteful and indulgent over frugality ... is beside the point.

Here are the photos: