apropos to aning p’s sagay urban legend

aning p’s urban legend is that house on corner maranon and cueva streets in sagay, where the marble dining table bore witness to innumerable stories and plots of movie and soap-teleserye material.  the house that lolo pidong and lola vacing built…

… where nanay felicing first stayed and was warmly welcomed by her cousin lolo pidong, who invited her to relocate from  iloilo after the war (WWII), while nanay was still struggling to make a new life in negros…

…that with its huge fiesta spread nanay didnt think it necessary that we do our own (because that would mean closing down the store for the day… yawat pa/sayang ang kita), so she’d send us off across the street to bring our contribution of grocery and stuff.  sometimes i’d grumble because i so wanted to invite friends and classmates from out of town to our house …

… with the tambis (macopa) tree that perhaps heard and attested as much as the dining table … the bountiful harvest of tambis fruits sold by tita bebing in what was among her  first commercial forays as a girl, foretelling the business acumen that she’d exercise to the max as an adult …

…. where the san jose ritual is observed every 19th of march,  a quaint practice, a peaen to sagay’s patron saint…

... where i cooked my first lasagna with thirdy, using fresh basil leaves grown in a pot by tita lyn. its actually thirdy’s lasagna and i just sort of kibitzed and pretended as if i’ve been cooking lasagna since forever (hehehe).  the dish turned out to be runny but yummy all the same … 

… home to tito freddie’s and tita lyn’s brood of seven, with beds lined up in two rooms like those of the seven dwarves …  

… and where the cuzins would have wondrous memories of their own.

 d maranon-cueva-sarrosa cuzins with lola vacing