Manang Ai-ai. She was our cousin who stayed at home during one of her summer vacations and she used the simplest but traumatic way of keeping us inside the house. She would just say that something's waiting for us outside the door: either the ido buang (rabid dog) or worst x10 , Maria Labo.
From that moment on, every time we go outside and play, we would just suddenly...
Saturday, November 12, 2011
4th of Part 1
the other people.
Nene. Not so much. She just threatens to leave us (She's been practically our taga-alaga alongside Nanay). She would padlock the house so that we would sleep during the afternoons. And as if it weren't enough, she would chain the bike as well. The bike---the main reason why we want to go out. It had been so for almost 4 years.
Nene: "Baya-an ta kamo...
3rd of Part 1
the actions of discipline at home.
the parents.
Tatay. My brother and I had been hit by a number of things already ranging from the traditional leather belt (where our parents make us fetch ourselves), its metal buckle as well, the walis tingting not in bundles but in two's or three's (it's stingy), the piece of kawayan which was already cut to be a part of the...
2nd of Part 1
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Are mothers supposed to be more kuripot than fathers?
Where Tatay would buy us rolls of 1 whole, 1/2 crosswise &
lengthwise and 1/4 pads, Nanay would buy as a roll of 1 whole paper and tell us
to "just cut them at school since it still is the same paper."
Where Tatay would give us...
1st of Part 1
...these are actually random musings on how I remember my childhood, the
people in the home I came to know (or the people I came to know in our home) and
the events that happened inside and outside that home....
This is the part where my younger sister, 7 years younger than me to be
exact, is still too young to be involved or simply, wasn't yet born...
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While...
