During the early years of my childhood we had no radio or TV or movies. To celebrate the town fiesta, which was held on Washington’s Birthday, February 20th, the townsfolk of the eastside area of Bangued (TAGADAYDAYA) organized a colorful, action-packed show called MORO MORO (ISLAM-ISLAM). It is a program that lasted a week, every […]
Sixth Anniversary of Jose Sibayan, Sr’s Death
My grandfather fulfilled his final life goal six years ago and went to heaven. He was a small man, but a towering figure in my life and I miss him every day. This blog keeps him close to me and I love seeing his life through his eyes. It reminds me of his sense of humor […]
1994 Memoir – 33. Bangued Memories – Mysterious Fire
One night we were rudely awakened by loud shouts of ORAM! ORAM! (Fire! Fire!), accompanied by the ringing of church bells and beating of drums. I saw Father carry our one-legged heavy table and run away downstairs with it, while Mother bundled Elix and me with blankets, as both of us were shivering with cold […]
1994 Memoir – 32. Bangued Memories – Nita
One time I climbed the mansanita tree of Tata Benid, our neighbor, while Nita, his young daughter, was up there, and I kissed her! Nita was the only girl in Bangued I courted and wrote love letters, which I placed inside her geometry book after solving her homework when she was second year and I […]
1994 Memoir – 31. Bangued Memories – Garden & Plants
Father was fond of planting fruit-bearing plants, while Mother was fond of flowering plants. We had bananas, papayas, coconut, cacao, otia, guanaba, tomatoes, kamian, and arimas in our small yard. The use of fertilizer was unknown then except for those who went to school like me and learned gardening. Father used to pour ashes around […]
1994 Memoir – 29. Bangued Memories – Pigs
There were two uses of pigs in Bangued when I was a small kid. One is for “lechon” and another is to clean up waste matter, especially human waste after we moved our bowels under the trees. At that time the pigs were free to roam about town, leaving their feces or waste on the […]
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