Created Saturday, June 16, 2007 2:24:03 PM
Modified Saturday, June 16, 2007 3:04:50 PM
Childhood by Maw
Elementary
Sis ume aida
Swing at river
Take everything out
Broken plates white ones
Put and drop into water
Go down and pick few.
Aida ate pashing
Mom only got few. Too small.
Take out panty out
Arrive home,
Granny spanks due to showing at river
Dark skinned meaning burned under sun from playing
Swim under water and go up when young
Even senyong
Dry coconut
Skiun the skin and tie shells together
Under arms with clothes to learn how to swm
Father bath in the river.
Grandpa throws kids into the water
Mom’s shallow water with her feet touching bottom of water
Gloating with head above water
School rainy season
When mud, Mom makes putty stove with caldero and water and mug
Dried like clay. Mom made those.
Grandpa made house, square house little taller
On top of the roof. Banana tree.
Cut string it’s curve
One up one down
Something in front
Selling dried fish with dried leaves
Line like straw
Buyers are out playmates
Pay broken glass in exchange for leaves (like fish)
Jell-O hibiscus leaves
Why? Toy! And sell like jell Jell-O
Ulam
Calaymay binbingka – hibiscus leaves
During recess time
Invite friends in school
Balimbing with ridges around
Eat during not greedy
Eat on or two stop don’t steal baon one penny five cents a week
Tamarind around school
Drop down on the flour
Pick it up and snack
Sometimes
Around fence big round brown fruit ripe when yellow
Green young then go back to eaten by kids
Satisfied… buy two candy for one penny
Every day good for one week from Mon. to Fri. spend it all nothing left
See to spend and pick up dropping from ground
Big sweets sweet on the outside
During mango season
Wind blow hard it breaks
Crispy and yellow good to eat exp. In the early morning
Guava on sat. sun ate nit sister, and nita
Go to town to gather just to eat not to gather
Site on the rock and watch the rice field grow wind blow
Sweet wind blow. Smell and waving rice stalks
She remembers
Waterfall picnics in Kalayaan
Senyong gather green jackfruit
Uste and coconut milk in it
Plate eating is banana leaves
Senyong but leaves and divide as plates
Mother makes ice cream in factory
Ice maker crunch of ice
In container put something there and ice become ice cream
Carnation mile, young coconut milk and sugar
Ume sister good at crooked water falls drop down there — too deep
Senyong drop her go he will catch her
Senyong not Florene not.
Uste nit does. Picnic eat with hands Swim
People pick more and bring more no more no thinking about more.
One time went to mountain to gather certain nuts
Palm tree have a long vertical surrounding full of fruits clusters plenty
Cut the end and get inside soak inside
Suddenly turned black, night dark eclipse
In the middle of the day
Hear the bird screaming. Down Kalayaan
Chicken are crawling all over pig around running
Chicken sitting and sleeping thought it nighttime
Suddenly birds wake up.
Middle of the day
All animals settle down to sleep
Scary old people are praying and wondering why night. Don’t know what to do.
Sun comes up and innocent as if nothing happen.
Hang around even though she did do anything and learned skills by looking
Appreciate tell story. not Jr. has to tell it if other’s don’t experience it
Mom complaining about telling story and Jr. continues to ask too many questions and mom thought he was intellectuals
In our very old house before. Only have one room upstairs
Cover of our house is the leaves of the coconut leaves
Father put them together. When it rains
And then our door is cover in the half. You can look over and no one get into the house
Rain some waters go in the house.
Remember the chair was a broken canoe and made into ad bench
By grandpa.
Eat on this long curved bench due to curve of boat
Kids sat on the long bench
One tuyo fish squeeze into the vinegars and rice
For the whole family and the taste of vinegar is all they ate with rice.
When father has rice one egg mix like with his hand and measure with grandpas hands and everyone has an equal share
Granma each have a banana share.
Mom fight because she got the small ends to their siblings
People plant rice mom and dad senyong plant rice
Water is up to waist line and muddy
But they plant rice
Rice go up and land is dry and during harvest season
Planting season is flooded and into the ground
So that’s what happened to Mom
Grandpa harvest 30 coconuts grind with hand 123
Finish everything squeeze little water until sauce come out
Boil cause until coconut disappear then only oil content is left
Sap from coconut squeeze is not wasted, make to candy
By crowning sugar like binbingka
Shell is to be burned as used as charcoal
Whole in back of house things there dried leave burnt it soil
Fire it until everything is burned cover it banana leaves
After the boiling underneath
Charcoal used to cooking and ironing
Make some flour have rock
Inherited big round rock with canal around
In the middle with ridges outward
On top with hold in middle located on tope
Put rice into middle hole and manually rotate clockwise
Canal goes out with liquid and catcher
Bebingagng
Found the half of the house during remodeling
Cant find top half of grinding stone as big as fruit basket
Something wood connected to top tock
Coconut tree everything one tree all parts useful
Fruit – milk and oil
Sap = dessert
Cover = fuel
Leaves = cover rood of house
Tingting = walis booming
Nothing wasted
All know these things watch her dad
Palaklak
Dried falls to ground
Chopped to small cooking fuel
Nothing wasted
Wine on eo fht palm tree.
Cut into trunk of palm and a long bamboo have ridges
Make it arm length and tie around palm tree
To catch sap from palm tree
Next day to check for any liquid
And drink as sweet but stay in jar and sour turn into wine
Young palm trunk mom and dad beat them until flour comes out.
Trunk = flour!
Young bamboo sprout – selling in store and that is good
Imagine go to school without anything on feet
Big banana leaves or Gabi leaves is umbrella
Mom mot society girl.
Hurts my head
Told Jr.. not interested
Mom told him have headache
Told them don’t too much TV.
Mother’s intuition knows if the other is good for them or not.
Can’t change attitude
Come from the person
Like parish Hilton 26; jail will change her.
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