May 8, 1918 - January 25, 2011
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]