Looking at a box of tea while preparing myself a cup of one, I can’t help but recall when a tea-bag is a luxury my mother used to prepare for me when I was a kid, when I am sick.
A feeling of nostalgia is inevitable whenever memories of good old days flashes back. Life is simple. Luxury is everything available at Aling Tinay’s sari-sari store. Happiness is playing hide-and-seek.
A day wouldn’t pass without having a game played. Patintero under the moonlight will conclude our day or reading Pinoy comics under the faltering light of a gas-lamp when it's drizzling outside.
I had been away so long from home more than half of my life. “You can get the boy out of the province but you cannot get the province out of the boy”. The song “Home” adds to my longing for home!
Down… down memory lane, Mirinda, Royal and Lem-o-lime is Pepsi; toothpaste is Colgate; shampoo is Sunsilk; cornik is Timbura; bubble gum is Texas; and cheesecurl is Okey.
Lucky I was. I was born when a tea-bag is a luxury. Now I have more reasons to appreciate a box of one!
10:30 AM 27March2012
"The author is a certified promdi, born and raised in the far-flung Bicol province. A nature lover."
