Reminiscing Childhood

I was talking to my sister Grace from South Carolina and Lany from Tennessee and we had so much fun reminiscing our childhood days back in Mandaue City. We were talking about how we take turns in buying “frances bread” at the late Yaya Caring’s bakeshop early morning before we go to school. All of the goodies Yaya Caring’s bakeshop had were all yummy. We missed the chichay bread (w/ sugar and cheese in the middle), the cinnamon bread (yummy icing on top), the bake siopao (w/ egg and bake potato), the ube ensaimada (very sofy and w/ sprinkled sugar on top), the fresh lumpia, the marble, custard and cassava cake and a lot more.


During summer vacation we worked for our neighbor who has a hanging rice (puso) business. Puso means cooked rice wrapp in weave palm leaves. We weaved the palm leaves and back then we were paid 10 cents per 100’s and it rose up to Php1.00 per 100’s. That was our summer job, we were paid every week. Friday and Saturday were busy days we can weaved 5,000 palm leaves. We saved our pay for the opening of classes for June.

We have a Chico tree in the front of our house and we used to climb on top and we have designated places on the branches. We had so much fun and when our Nanay who owns the tree saw us from her house she will come down bringing the whipping stick, oh boy, we had to hurry to avoid the whipping stick. My sister was the one left on top she couldn’t come down.

Those were the days of our childhood. If we could go back the times and be kids again.