· streets are blocked and traffic rerouted for kasalan reception, other punsyon, or katapusan (lamayan).   

· where tricycles are operated 24 hours. Who knows, maybe the cure for “sleep Morong.”   

· where people gather firewood sinisilo from the bridge during a big flood.   

· where the usual greeting when you meet someone on the street starts is, "Hoy, ano ba? Saan ka pupunta?"   

· where the old folks treatment for babies nagsisinok is placing a wet (with laway)  piece of thread on the center of the baby’s forehead.    

· where a tummy ache is cured (really?) by some old woman's chewed "nga-nga" betel nut, ikmo, apog and massage on one's aching tummy.   

· if  an infant develops tummy ache (na-usog) the last person who had seen and kalong the infant is the cause. That person has to massage the infant’s tummy with his/her laway.   

· where high fever is diagnosed by throwing tawas to embers (baga) and whatever shape it takes—usually in the shape of animals, etc., will be read by the “Mangtatawas”. His diagnosis usually is, “Kow ay pinaglalaruan iyan ng inkantada.”    

· where old practice of taking out  boils (pigsa) is by placing the opening of the empty coke bottle on top of it and pushing it downward with one big thump to get the "eye" out. Aray!   

· where sprained ankle (sug-ok) or sprained muscles are massage by a manghihilot with blessed oil taken from the lamp at the church.   

· where fish bone caught in one’s throat could only be taken out by someone who was born "suwi"—feet first!    

· where Ninongs, Ninangs and parents race to go out of the church soon as the baptism is over—to bring luck to the babies.   

· where young kids after hearing the bell (iskalada) during Easter Mass jump continuously, believing they will grow faster.    

· completing simbang gabi will bring you luck all year. Zzzzzzz.