I decided to spend my Holy Thursday morning on the streets of Brgy Poblacion. The streets of Poblacion are quite popular -- e.g. the girlie bars of Burgos St, Kalayaan Avenue (this is the road that would lead you to Rockwell), and of course Makati Avenue. But unbeknownst to many, during Holy Week, the various Samahans, in this old part of Makati City, change the landscape of what used to be marked by the earthly, if not the profane. They put up religious tableaus or kalbaryos to mark the Lord's Paschal Mystery. Kalbaryos are mounted in the various streets of Poblacion and the residents would gather to chant the Pasyong Mahal or the Pabasa. It is, and I am borrowing the words of Dr. Jaime Laya, "touching how, in the 21st century and just a stone's throw away from the skyscrapers of the central business district, the original residents of Makati continue in the practice of their faith, unheeding of and unnoticed..."