11TH POST

092908

Ang POST na ito ay katugma ng POST ko sa BLOG ko na

http://the-conspiracy-of-one.blogspot.com

kung saan tinatalakay ko ang hinggil sa BATALAN, isang parte ng mga bahay noong araw na hindi na matatagpuan sa mga bahay sa kasalukuyan. Ang BATALAN ay binanggit ng mga sinaunang dayuhang manunulat tulad nina MORGA, JAGOR , ATBP na nakakita at nakapansin sa naturang bahagi ng arkitektura o pagkakagawa ng mga bahay ng mga katutubo. Mayroon ditong tatlong (3) larawan na nagpapakita ng tinatawag na "BATALAN":

BATANGAS 1952-1953 "LULU"

Sa harap ng ancestral home namin sa Alitagtag. Ito ang mataas na bahay sa kanan na may mga bumbilya sa harap. Ang bahay sa kaliwa ay kina Ka Simeon na nagsasaka/naglilinang ng lupa namin sa likod-parang o "Ibaba". Masdan ang BATALAN sa harap ng bahay na ito. Ang BATALAN ay walang bubong at may sala-salang kawayan na dingding. Ang BANGGERAHAN naman na hugasan ng mga plato ay nasa dakong likod na may dalawang tukod/poste at may mga kawayan o kahoy na tulos? na maaring pagsabitan ng mga baso... Aling LULU (R.I.P.) is/was a distant relative of a FORMER MAYOR OF QUEZON CITY... Now, don't ask me why/how this happened to be the case

BATANGAS, 1952+
Ang nanay ko ang nasa kaliwa at ang tiya ko na nakakita ng lumulutang na kamay ang naka-salamin at nakapamay-awang sa kanan. Ang matandang lalaki ay "si Ka Atong na ama ng Mariang Erning na taga-Dalipit" at matagal nang namatay. (Hindi ko siya inabot.) Masdan ang tsinelas ng matanda. Ganito ang mga suot noon ng matatandang kalalakihan. Kitang-kita ang BATALAN ng bahay ni Ka Simeon na nakapamintana sa dakong gitnang-itaas ng larawan. Ang BATALAN ay medyo natatakpan ng nakasampay na bagay at dito paakyat ang hagdan.

OLONGAPO, ZAMBALES OR BATANGAS (UNSURE)
Ito naman ay larawan ng isang "NELY" na hindi ko kilala. Ang BATALAN ay nasa bandang gitnang-kaliwa sa tabi ng nakabukas na bintana at meyo nadaanan ng kahoy na hawak ng tau. Simple lang ang isang ito nguni't may bubong pero ito ang tinatawag nga na BATALAN.
Patungkol ang PHOTO sa aking namatay na tiya at may petsang "12/7/46". Nasusulat sa likod: "For get me not For get me never For get this picture But not the owner" COMMENT ko: Saan ka man naroroon Aling Nely, huwag kang mag-ala-ala dahil you will go down in history... Dahilan ito sa BATALAN na nasa may likuran mo sa larawan! (Ang problema lang eh baka dumating din ang panahon kung saan aalisin ang tau sa gitna at ang pananatilihin ay ang bahay at BATALAN na lang...

E-2-2-LOY ko na lang later ang BATALAN este BATANGAN studies ko...

TMNP

10th POST

091508

I should title each set of photographs so that there is an underlying theme...
But I only follow what fascinates me at the moment...

Back to TOYS - I wanted to describe all the memorable toys I had...
But I only need mention that toys are important HISTORICAL ARTEFACTS that reflect the technology, ways & mores, whatever of a bygone ERA or PERIOD... Now I'm wondering what toys our leaders/heroes/great figures (and even heels!) of the past played with during their childhood... What did the child Magellan, Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, Lapu-Lapu, Rajah Sulayman, Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, MacSak etc etc play with? One might retort that the genuinely heroic ones were too poor to play & had to feel/experience the full brunt of REAL-LIFE oppressive existence...

ADDITIONAL PHOTOs

I was extremely familiar with /unawed by white foreigners even as a child... Shown during my 6th birthday is a really blonde-blue-eyed All-American boy whose name I have already forgotten... Again if he is still alive today I am very sure he would be a lot smellier now!

What I remember well is that he gifted me with one of my cherished toys - a cream-colored toy metal JEEP similar to the real one below. Of course, it was MADE IN U.S.A., made of metal & hard plastic & very durable unlike the Made in Hong Kong or Made in Japan "LOCAL" toys. It was not really a case of MENTAL COLONY but even as a child I could perceive the inherent superiority of white/Western/American goods & products...
At left, with her hands on her chin, is Mary Lou the adopted daughter of a DUTCH-American civilian employee in the former U.S. Naval Base at Subic... My best friend Rey & my sister at right.

MY MOTHER, ANOTHER'S MOTHER, & THE MOTHER OF ALL JEEPNEYS
My mother at left & an original U.S. Gov.t Issue (G.I.) JEEP (Willy's or what or just plain Jeep???)

My mother with Janet's mother who married an IRISH-American U.S. Marine.
Note the details of the JEEP similar to my toy...

The face of an ASTHMA SUFFERER
My late LOLA with my distant cousin Ate Julieta (also R.I.P.)
who married a HUNGARIAN-American. She died of cancer in the U.S.A. & had a daughter.
See how MULTI-NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL my personal links are!!!
This is the 2nd floor SALA of our ancestral home in Alitagtag, Batangas in the 1950's.
Note the fixtures & rattan furniture (bought from BASCO's in Batangas City according to my mother & aunt.)

Batangas - My late father with my brother & my TATAY's pet rooster.
We called our parents "Tatay & Inay". Should be "Tatay & Nanay" or "Itay & Inay"...
If you call your parents "DADDY & MOMMY" or "MOM & DAD", then you are AMERICANIZED.
If you call them "PAPA & MAMA", then you are HISPANIZED.
My old Tausug friends call theirs "AMA & INA" which I believe is TRULY native.

1966, Batangas - My sister & I with our first family (not my rich aunt's) car, a Ford TAUNUS.

TMNP

911

091108

When was my last posting?...
New PIX about me & my Life

KANO = ILO_ OR AMERI_???
U.S.A. - Frankie with his Filipina mom & American dad (who passed away a few years back).
Since his mother is the full sister of my (late) father, then he is my 1st cousin, Correct?
Of course, Frankie is much much older, bigger & definitely smellier now...
His father MIGHT have had DUTCH blood but I'm quite sure he was not a WHITE POLICEMAN...


Six-Foot-Four with two shorties
My father on his first trip to the U.S. visited my mother's cousin
who was married to a GERMAN-American POLICEMAN...
Note that my father would fit inside his pants!...


TOYS & a Stuffed LAWIN
Am not sure if that boy with striped shirt in the middle is ME... I was NOT fond of parties
with lots of children/people & I usually hid myself from the crowd...
Toys (mostly my brother's) include the white WHIRLYBIRD, a TONKA road grader,
a WHITE MP (Military Policeman) on a Jeep, and at top left, two FLYING SAUCERS!!!
- my sister's & my brother's which will not fall off a tabletop. I just inherited their toys...
My brother usually asked for & got what he wanted...
I was too shy to ask my aunt & parents to buy me anything - EXCEPT for...


1964/1965 - 5 HORSEMEN in front of U.P. COLLEGE BAGUIO
I was too small my horse thought it was empty/barebacked!


Now, this is much better... 1967 with Janet (a half-IRISH-American),
my (late) cousin Rody, & my brod & sis


I could ride a horse all by myself

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Biyernes, Hunyo 06, 2008

Mga karagdagang lumang larawan ng aking masayang kababataan...

ANG KAUNA-UNAHAN KONG PHOTO
(Hindi ko ito natatandaan : )
Dagdag 092308
Ang pinakauna kong natatandaan (the oldest "memory trace" I have) ay karga-karga aku at nasa isang karnabal (carnival) na maraming ilaw at may roller-coaster at merry-go-round. Maaaring sa malawak na grounds ng "Pag-Asa" sa Law St. (= Gordon Ave.) sa Olongapo, Zambales ito. Pero ang merry-go-round ay tulad ng mga nasa U.S. na may carousel at may mga kabayo. Marahil ay sa loob ng U.S. Naval Base o sa may Gate nito ito ginanap. Kailangan ng historical records para matanto ko kung ano itong karrnibal na ito na unang-una kong natatandaan. Kaya naman pala mahilig aku sa patawa o comic clowning eh! Baka ipinaglihi aku sa payaso HAR!

BUNSONG SANGGOL
Kasama ko ang aking dalawang kapatid
at ang tiyahin (pinsan ng nanay ko) kong
nakapag-asawa ng Canadian.
Namatay na siya at nakalibing sa Canada.
Siya ang naghahatid sa akin sa paaralan.


Habang pinaaarawan sa likod bahay.
Kinagat ko ang daliri ng aking kapatid.
Masdan ang naka-sombrerong mag-bobote sa likuran
at ang kahon ng "Liberty Milk" at basurahan noong
araw na yari sa kawayan yata...


WHAT'Z UP? WHY AM I HERE? WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?
Sigurado kong aku nga ang sanggol sa larawan...
Ang mga sanggol/baby ay nakatutuwa.
Malinis at mabango pa sila at hindi pa napapasok ng
bacteria o viruses o parasites ang kanilang katawan...
at higit sa lahat ay INNOCENT pa sila...
Maputi aku noong bata pa. Aku nga ang pinaka-maputi sa amin sa pamilya.
Marahil ay galing ito sa either Spanish o Chinese blood o both na nananalytay sa ugat ko at tulad din nang marami sa aking mga kababayan... Op kors, Malay nose aku (SOCRATIC NOSE)


Natututong maglakad...
Ang mga unang nilalang sa Olongapo (sa lugar namin) ay hindi ang mga Aeta o ang mga Tsino
(Mga tumakas sa Komunistang Tsina) kundi mga talangka! Tabun o reclaimed land lang talaga ang malaking bahaging kinatitirikan ng mga bahayan kaya parang buhangin ang lupa...


Heto na... Simula na ng mga PROBLEMA ko sa BUHAY!
Pasakayin ba naman aku sa matigas na kahoy na kalabaw!
Susmaryosep! Sana man lang eh kabayo para may "CLASS" a la KNIGHT O COWBOY!
Kung sa ngayon nga at anak ko ang kukuhaan ko ng ganitong litrato eh sa
mini-motorbike na BMW o HARLEY-DAVIDSON ko ito isasakay!
Kita nyo ang ginagawa ng matatanda sa mga bata!
Sa harap ito ng tindahan (SOUVENIR SHOP) ng tiyahin ko.


HETO PA! SULIRANIN sa ibang TAU naman!
Aku at ang aking matalik na kaibigan at kababatang si REY
sa harap ng kanilang tindahan/kapitbahay
HIndi naman kami nag-away. Tila/Para lang...


THE TWIN TOWERS OF MAGSAYSAY DRIVE, OLONGAPO
Aku at ang aking BEST FRIEND karga-karga ng aming GUARDIAN "Angel(es)"
Nasa likuran ang tindahang pag-aari ng nanay ng kaibigan ko. Batanguena rin ito. Siya ay mukhang CAUCASIAN dahil malakas ang Hispanic/Iberian "Portuguese" blood niya mula sa ama.




Tatlong larawan ng "katipunerong" naka-salakot:
Mula sa itaas kasama ang aking ina, lola at tiya.
Sa ibabang photo makikita ang mga souvenir wooodcarvings
na itinitinda ng aking tiya, kabilang na ang "Spoon & Fork", Flower Holder, Painting ni Propetang Hesukristo sa Gethsemane... Kabilang sa mga sigarilyo ang BATAAN MATAMIS, LUCKY STRIKE, CHESTERFIELD, KING'S CUP atbp...


Mahilig talaga akong mag-paa noong bata pa aku. Malamig sa paa.
Ang larawang ito ay tandang-tanda ko pa. Malakas sa memorya ko nang kuhaan ito.



Isa pa itong tandang-tanda ko pa. Suot-suot ko ang pabotiro kong cover-all.
Nasa likuran ang isa na namang mag-bobote! (Ngayon nga dito sa amin sa QC eh dumarami pa nga ang mag-bobote! Ang "SEA HORSE" ay isa noong parang mini-restaurant/bar lang at hindi pa talaga nightclub. Nagsisimula na ang pagpapalit anyo ng Magsaysay Drive. Magiging itong "Red-light District" at ang Olongapo at Angeles, Pampanga ay magiging "Sin Cities". Simula ito ng paglala ng VIETNAM WAR at ng pagdami ng mga tropang Amerikanong nag-"R&R" (Rest & Recreation) sa dalawng siyudad.
[ADDED: April 09, 2009 ("Maundy Thursday" to Catholics here) The lot or building at the rightmost edge of the picture is PHILIPPINE? OR INTERNATIONAL? RED CROSS... After SEA HORSE is SALIBA property if I am not mistaken or another property and the fourth? or fifth? property is RED CROSS office. This was in the 1960's. Fronting all properties on our side is a whole block-length, the DEL ROSARIO property.]


Kuha sa may "backyard" ng aming bahay kasama ang aking kapatid at dalawang tiyahin (mga pinsan ng aking ina) - yung namatay na at nailibing sa Canada at ang kapatid niya na nasa U.S.A.



Ang tiyahin kong nasa U.S.A. na ngayon at ang aking dalawang kapatid...
Umiiyak na naman yata aku dito... Sa lugar na ito sa may di kalayuan ay mayroon kaming balong sunugan ng basura. Isang araw sinusundan ko ang aking kapatid na lalaki palakad-lakad sa paligid ng balon. Naka-paa aku noon. Tumulay siya sa isang mahabang kahoy . Ginaya ko. Kaso, may baga pala ito. Naging "FIREWALKER" aku na wala sa plano at "practice". Hindi ko na matandaan ang mga "events" partikular ang pagkakapaso ng paa ko. (Dapat naka-baon ito dahil PAINFUL experience eh!) Simula noon eh nag-tsitsinelas na aku. YOU LEARN IN LIFE FROM/THROUGH YOUR EXPERIENCES...

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Martes, Marso 04, 2008

Time really flies!
(Lumilipad talaga ang oras!?)
Ang bilis talaga ng panahon!

Chamba o Conspiracy?
Kaninang bandang 11:30-12:00 habang naglalakad aku pauwi
sa karaniwang ruta ko eh may na-daanan akong isang barahang nakataob...
Sinipa ko para ito ay bumaligtad.
Ang baraha ay "JOKER" na ang hitsura ay "court jester" -
/\/\/\ ang suot sa ulo...

Alam ko na alam nila...
Pero alam ba nila na alam ko
na alam rin nyo na alam nila?
At alam ko na alam ni...

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Circa 1966?-1968?
St. Columban Elementary School
Olongapo, Zambales
I'm the shortest of the four

Hindi aku magtataka kung lahat ng mga nasa
larawan (maliban sa akin) ay pawang nasa bansang Amerika na ngayon...
Ang nasa kanan ko na batang naka-pantalon ay si "John James' na isa na noong American Citizen
at American accent mag-salita... "American Sixty-Cents". Nasa kaliwa ko naman ay isang malinaw na mestisong Amerikano. Ang matangkad na batang nasa kanan ay anak (yata!) ng Hapon sa Pilipina na naging adopted child ng isang puting Amerikano na descendant ng isang kilala/tanyag na imbentor... Nasa likuran ang isang batang naka-suot ng "dunce cap". Pantay-na pantay ang aking mga medyas... nguni't asar aku sa aking shorts na tila baga may buntot sa likod... Hindi talaga aku ma-kuntento sa aking sarili o mga gamit... Parang may hindi tama o kulang... sa buhay, sa sarili o sa paligid ko... Ang St. Columban ay pinatatakbo noon ng mga Irish Catholic priests & nuns... Marami akong mga naging kalarong purong puting Amerikano... Naglalangoy kami sa loob ng base militar sa swimming pool ng mga anak ng U.S. servicemen kung saan karaniwan ay kami lang o iilan lang ang kayumanggi... May ilan na racists na ang turing sa mga natibo ay "monkees" nguni't kakaunti lang talaga ang mga ito... Sino ang talagang racists sa mga puti?

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I ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO CREATE A BLOG
TITLED "I WILL TELL ON ME"
OR "TELL ME WHO I AM"...
BUT AS ALWAYS LOST THE INTEREST &
ENERGY TO DO SO...

JUST READ WHAT FOLLOWS...
I WILL TELL ON ME SO TELL ME WHO I AM...

CHANCE? COINCIDENCE? CONSPIRACY? DESTINY?

Just searched for the name "Rear Admiral Arthur F. Spring"...
My late aunt knew the top-brass of the Subic Naval Base in the 1950's.
Spring was a U.S. Navy Admiral who headed Subic Naval Base in the late 1950's
and was a personal friend of my late aunt...
He died in an airplane crash together with his wife
a "CLARE MURPHY" on November 10, 1960 - less than a month after my birth...

Was his death connected to the 1957 death in another airplane crash in Cebu of
President Ramon Magsaysay of Zambales? His airplane was
"Mt. Pinatubo" - the name of the volcano in Zambales which later erupted...
Coincidence... Chance...???
Sample: I live near CLAREt...
Had some relatives who lived in MURPHY, Q.C...
CLARE... CLARET... CLAIRE... SINCLAIR(?)... ST. CLAIR... CLEAR (Unilever shampoo)

PLEASE, TELL ME WHO I AM!...

My late father (surnamed JAVIER originally of Agoo, La Union
ILOCANO NOT VISAYAN (e.g. EVELIO JAVIER of Antique,
NOR TAGALOG (UP CHANCELLOR EMIL Q, JAVIER) Even Edgardo JAVIER Angara...
My paternal grandfather, Jose Javier was a Spanish-speaking employee of the
American-owned MERALCO who used to reside in a MANOTOC-owned land in
Gagalangin, Tondo. The actor Rodolfo Quizon (DOLPHY) was their neighbor
(that's why he was a mah-jong playmate of an aunt - the wife of an
engineer uncle... JAVIER Perez de Cuellar... JAVIER Solana... Chance?

NOTE THAT I HAVE SOME "LINKS" TO WELL-KNOWN PERSONALITIES:

My classmate at the ATENEO was NINOY AQUINO'S SON
So were scions of well-known rich & powerful families - my schoolmates
I KNOW (GOT ACQUAINTED WITH) THREE NEPHEWS of GEN. FIDEL V. RAMOS
Even IMELDA'S DAUGHTER IMEE was known to a friend of mine...

JAVIER
GONZALVO... GONZALES (Norberto - Nur's "friend" & Raul)... Ginsalgun...
GUTIERREZ - How many well-known Gutierrezes in the gov't.
My maternal LOLA's middle name was Gutierrez
My maternal LOLO's middle name was Coronel
Ask the Spaniards what is the "meaning' of these surnames...

I remember in the 1970's in Camp John Hay Golf Course
Actor Eddie Gutierrez (Ruffa/) was playing golf while we were at "19th Tee"...

RUFFa Gutierrez
RUFFa Mae Quinto
Major RUFF of Loakan & Baguio whose "white house" near Baguio cathedral & Lutheran church
was bought by my aunt... & later was bank foreclosed... now owned by a 'LOPEZ'
RUFF was Dutch? or French?
"White House"... MNLF "white house" I visited in SAUDI ARABIA...

LOPEZ Salvador ex-UP prez fronting us...
LOPEZ of ILO-ILO.. CH.2, Meralco...
my aunt's eye-doctor LOPEZ...

W.W.II General LIM...
General Danilo LIM...
A neighbor once surnamed LIM...
Ferdinand Marcos's doctor's son a LIM (who was very nice to me) was a high-schoolmate
My mother's college friend TAN, a 1950's neighbor TAN... a resident of LOPEZ, QUEZON relative TAN
school colleague SY, SM Sy...
CHUA, brother's classmate CHUA, schoolmates CHUA...

German-American relatives in Wisconsin...
Albrecht... Albright(?) former Zionist American official
German Catholic relatives in Mannheim... German POPE Benedict
My maternal great-grandfather was BENEDICTO...

Only the ZOBEL/AYALAS I'm very sure has no 'link" to us...
Maybe these Spaniards (Jews?) are "too exclusive"

NOTE: I, MY FAMILY, WE NEVER REALLY SEEK/SOUGHT CONNECTION/FAVORS WITH "BIGSHOTS"
(EXCEPT ONCE - to an RP CHIEF JUSTICE - on my aunt's case against her own cousin)
IT IS NOT MY NATURE TO BE "AWED" BY FELLOW HUMANS...

I have a friend who told me once that I was like Forrest Gump (movie)
I remember my aunt used to relate... The Americans asked her
what she wanted... they told her if it was humanly possible they would give
it to her!!! Can you imagine the world's Superpower people offering to give you
whatever you wish/want! I cannot understand why my aunt did not ask for
the sun, moon & stars!... She could have asked the Americans to just give us a nice place
to live in & good education & jobs in the U.S. Of course, my father had a chance to migrate
as Special Immigrant to the U.S. in the early 70's but turned this rare opportunity down.
He had visited the U.S. thrice & saw the grind/pace & lifestyle there...
He probably realized he would have ended up in a home-for-the-aged!...
Everyone in my core family EXCEPT ME had been to the U.S.A.!...
Most if not all of my gradeschool friends have migrated to the LAND OF MILK & HONEY...
But toward the end of her life, especially when the Subic naval base
was about to close, my aunt told me that the latter-day Americans
were no longer the same Americans she once knew...
That they were no longer the 'tall & good-looking/beautiful ones'
I wonder now what she meant... FAKE Americans???...
WHO are the REAL or TRUE AMERICANS - i.e. among the WHITES...

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SOME OF MY LATE AUNT'S AMERICAN FRIENDS

FRAMED PHOTOS IN MY LATE AUNT'S GIFT SHOP
ALONG MAGSAYSAY DRIVE IN OLONGAPO CITY
JUST AS THE NAVAL BASE WAS ABOUT TO CLOSE

TOP PORTRAIT IS OF A CERTAIN "LT. CMDR. DR. ESCAJEDA",
A HISPANIC (MEXICAN?) AMERICAN U.S. NAVY OFFICER FRIEND
BIG TOP PHOTO IN THE LOWER PICTURE FRAME
SHOWS HER BETWEEN TWO AMERICAN COUPLES.
THE WHITE-CLOTHED COUPLE ON THE RIGHT ARE
REAR ADMIRAL ARTHUR F. SPRING & MRS. SPRING (NEE "CLARE MURPHY")
THE COUPLE ON THE LEFT ARE OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVES OF
PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER'S "PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE PROGRAM"
THEY BOUGHT PHILIPPINE SOUVENIRS FROM HER GIFT SHOP.
THE LAND ON WHICH IT STOOD WAS GIVEN TO HER BY THE AMERICANS.
NOTE THE WHITE "AMERICAN LEGION" BUILDING IN THE BACKGROUND.
BEHIND ADM. SPRING'S HEAD IS "WEAPONS OF MOROLANDIA"

LOWER SMALL PHOTO SHOWS THREE PERSONALITIES RIDING A CARABAO-DRAWN CART:
GOV. DIZON OF BATAAN, ADM. SPRING & GOV. BARRETTO OF ZAMBALES
DURING OLONGAPO TOWN FIESTA, RIZAL DAY DECEMBER 31 (?)

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1963/64
HALF-MOON BEACH, SUBIC BAY
OLONGAPO, ZAMBALES
(NOTE IN THE BACKGROUND: BANGKA & TWO U.S. NAVY SHIPS
AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER AT LEFT)

PLAYING WITH A PAIR OF (THEN) HIGH-TECH RUBBER SLIPPERS...

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MGA LARAWAN NG NAKARAAN

Sabida sa wikang Inggles, "A picture is worth a thousand words."

Sa tutoo lang, HINDI KATUMBAS ng salita ang larawan...
Ang wika ay naka-ugat sa tunog, sa bibig. labi at dila, samantalang ang mga imahe ay nakasalalay sa mata, sa paningin at liwanag at dilim... [Ang hirap palang managalog!]

"Twin Towers of Alitagtag"

Ito ang larawan ng "ancestral home" bahay namin sa Alitagtag, Batangas. Yung nasa kaliwa/kiri ang sa amin o pamilya Pagsuyuin-Gonzalvo. Yung sa kanan ay sa Calingasan-Gonzalvo. Itinayo ang sa amin noong 1952. Ang plano ng bahay ay ginaya sa isang bahay sa Pampanga na nagustuhan ng tiyahin ko. (Nag-aahente siya noon ng P&G products.)

Procter&Gamble PMC Circa 1936-1938

Ang tiyahin ko ang naka-upo sa dulong kanan. Sa dulong-kaliwa naman ay isang nag-ngangalang "Miss Cera o Sera MARTIN". Nakatayo sa dulong kaliwa ang isang nag-ngangalang "Maring o Maria BONIFACIO" na kilala ni FPJ o ni Fernando Poe Senior(?)...

Masdan ang mga produktong P&G sa paanan nila. Nasa kaliwa ang "CAMAY beauty soap" at nasa kanan ang sabong "IVORY". Nasa gitna ang "STAR margarine"( De-lata tulad ng Danish "BRUN" at ng isang brand ng de-latang New Zealand butter na mabibili sa mga supermarket). Ang mga produktong ito ay gawa mula sa langis ng niyog.

Nginat-ngat ng daga o ipis
Batangas 1963/64(?)
Aku at ang aking Lola
(Ang mga lalaking nakapaligid ay mga tsuper ng U.S. Navy Special Services)

Pinalaking bahagi ng larawan
[Nakahawak sa kanyang saya habang nilalaro ng aking mga paa ang nakakikiliting "Bermuda Grass". Ipinapakita nito ang aking "attachment" sa kanya. Masdan na nakapaa rin ang matanda.

"EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT"
Fort Mckinley/Fort Bonifacio
Circa 1964

Naka-bandana at baro't-saya