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We did not have electricity until 1976 or so. We had a poso that gave the sweetest water (our town's water has that reputation), we would store some of it in a banga that had a faucet. Natural cooling.
No running water means one of my chores as a kid was pumping the poso while my
No running water means one of my chores as a kid was pumping the poso while my
mother was doing the laundry. During the rinse, the water had to constantly overflow to carry away the bubbles. And my mother is [still] Terminator-like when it comes to bubbles in laundry, she wants them dead. So she rinsed the clothes 4 times.
We had 3 Indian mango trees,
We had 3 Indian mango trees,
2 santol, 1 kasoy (balubad). We raised chickens. You know what's for dinner at Christmas and New Year's Eve. In my youth, it was still normal to eat pork less than 10 times a year. When your elders catch you climbing a tree or a high wall, they would say "do you want to fall down
and die so we can eat pork?" or something that would sound insensitive today. But yes, a funeral is one of those occasions where our folks ate pork. Or beef. Others would be Christmas, New Year, a wedding, babang-luksa (lukas-paldas) and the barrio fiesta.
Today of course, we
Today of course, we
have pork almost everyday at work, unless you cook and bring your own lunch and maybe have a choice.
We had 2 appliances that used electricity, the flat iron and the radio, and the latter used batteries so it didn't count. Naturally we drifted close to DZRH with its serial
We had 2 appliances that used electricity, the flat iron and the radio, and the latter used batteries so it didn't count. Naturally we drifted close to DZRH with its serial
dramas like Magnon, Lawin, Shimatar, Amor seco, Matudnila, etc. and its 1-episode shows like Ito Ang Palad Ko. Heavy Tagalog stuff. No wonder we ran out of Capampangans.
I still think about those wonderful radio talents of my youth, especially when I watch these dubbed Japanese
I still think about those wonderful radio talents of my youth, especially when I watch these dubbed Japanese
animes, K-dramas and Mexican telenovelas on TV, where the voice "talents" seem to be just one person changing the pitch of his voice with every character. DZRH radio talents (some of them also worked for Radio Veritas) refined their craft over years and thousands of episodes.
Even Susan Roces was a graduate of DZRH, back then young and raw actors were sent by their studios to DZRH to polish their delivery. There's no better training for actors, they had to put emotion on their lines on the fly, and without the aid of facial expression, they had to
sound believable. And yes, the ultimate "test" for acting for Filipinos, cry on demand (radio talents, the best ones, did cry).
Think about what a stint on radio would have done to Kris A. Or Gerald or Sam or any one of those bulol balikbayan actors.
Too much time on my hands.
Think about what a stint on radio would have done to Kris A. Or Gerald or Sam or any one of those bulol balikbayan actors.
Too much time on my hands.
