FIRST TRIP 5: Ay, T! Part2
When promdis come to the big, wicked city, they are almost always the object of ridicule by supposedly more sophisticated city rats. So it is so much fun to turn the table around when our Manileno cousins come to visit Aklan for the summer. The ancestral house is in an island-barrio with no electricity and – to them – it’s like living in another planet.
One fine day, a horde of us were strolling with our cousins around the neighborhood when suddenly, Dwayne (a high school senior who was exiled by my aunt to Aklan due to early experimentation with drugs) started yelling “Sunooooog!!! Sunooooog!!!!” at the top of his lungs.
Alarmed, we asked him “Where???”
It turned out what he was seeing was the neighbor’s kitchen, thick smoke billowing out of its nipa roof. It was only Manang Lacion cooking with firewood, stupid!
posted by Miki at
1:20 PM
4 Comments:
lovely sight. is that haus still standing there? but a fire hazard indeed. i rememb similar farm house
of arbularyo tossed up 4 by chicken feet like posts. cool and airy inside made of bamboo slats floor and crushed bamboo walls. a pad like set up inside where everything is within reach.
exp i would not want to forget
fire hazard, yes, but easy and cheap enough to replace just in case, bwehehehe
our house in the province still has a portion that's made of nipa. my mother prefers it because it's cooler.
by the way, that's an authentic "payag", in case you don't know ;p
it was a good side trip for me. i like your blog, makalingaw! nice art, too.
daghang salamat kidA! :)
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