As with marbles, so we also gambled with rubber bands (lastics), washers (tarkas) used by carpenters to nail G.I. roofing, or gogo (biay), the fruit of a vine used for rinsing the hair, round and shiny, in the shape of a round kidney, or bittaog, a fruit of trees growing in the plaza, round in […]
1994 Memoir – 44. Bangued Memories – Marbles
Our next craze was gambling with marbles. We had no marbles made of glass then. We gathered lime stone pieces from Casamata and polished them round, into marbles. We drew a circle on the ground, placed marbles inside, one or two or three each bettor, then would fling our remaining marble with our thumb until […]
1994 Memoir – 43. Bangued Memories – Kite Flying
My favorite pastime was flying a kite. We made our kites with bamboo sticks as frames and newspapers or silk paper as the main body. I had a friend and neighbor, Pastor Benedito, who taught me how to makes kites, fly them, and fight other kites in the air. We had a stone grinder where […]
1994 Memoir – 42. Bangued Memories – Passenger Buses
With the construction of the TANGADAN road linking Abra and Ilocos Sur, buses started plying between Bangued and Vigan. The first buses were the SANTIAGO SAMBRANO of Vigan, the VALERA TRANSPORTATION, the BENEDITO BUS, the bus owned by one from SINAPANGAN called Moriana Favorite, all competing against each other for passengers. Buses were parked in […]
1994 Memoir – 69. How Pat And I Fell In Love
One day while visiting Pat and her mother in a boarding house opened by them in Azcarraga near U.E. (University of the East), I asked if she had already enrolled in school. She said, “Not yet, because Mother has not yet sold her sewing machine.” I asked for her report card. She had just finished […]
1994 Memoir – 41. Bangued Memories – Road Asphalting
The first road to be asphalted was the one in front of the church, starting at the foot of Casamata. It was a great event for all people of Bangued, especially the young ones who had never seen a road roller that was fed by firewood, leaving a trail of burning embers behind. Despite the […]
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