I Landed at the Same Place. Childhood Chronicles Part I
I did not plan to have a long leave for the holy week. It’s just that there’s no one to take care of Baby Sam so I’ve been 10 days out-of-the-office. Cool.
With those 10 days, I just spent 2 days & 1 night in Batangas. But I’m still out-of-the-office, so I didn’t care at all.
When we came to Batangas, I heard that my 2 childhood friends are also there. They both stay in Pasig now but it’s been years that we 3 have been together. I went to my friend’s house since I knew they were there, taking vitamins (having drinking session) under the mango tree, around 1PM. They have a portable DVD, with some other friends. I look around the place and nothing much has changed after so many years.
During my childhood, we were always together in school, after school, during weekends, almost 365 days/year. Name every adventures you know and 99%, we also had those.
- We went mountain climbing.
- We’ve been ‘lagalags’.
- We’ve stolen some crops from someone’s farm.
- We’ve swam to the deepest part of the sea a child like us can (without lifevest). And then back to the shore and do it again until we got tired.
- We’ve been to the farthest ‘barrios’ in the province just to collect bottle crowns.
- We’ve been to many forests just to search for fighter spiders.
- We’ve been to the farthest house that has ABS-CBN channel just to watch ‘Sine sa Dos’ during afternoons and try to imitate what we just saw. I remember we watched ‘Kambal Tuko’ (Richard and Raymond Guttierez) and after watching, we tied ourselves together and stumble down the hill. Though we were hurt a little bit, we still laughed and laughed until we all peed on our pants.
There’s still a lot of funny childhood memories with them. But I just dont know how to describe them.
Batangueño Words
Murâ - Young coconut. Bukó. Magulang (antonym)
Niyog - Coconut.
oh so sweet innocent memories…in the jungle called manila, nothing comes near to those experiences.
i somehow miss to stay in Batangas. if only there’s a better job I can have there.
it’s nice to reminisce once in a while
musta? it’s good that you’ve got more than a week of vacation leave… we only have 5 days maximum and i already consumed it already last january when i went home to bacolod 