And yeah i said i'd be sleeping by now, but i just can resist writing this down after listening to my dad reminisce. :D
okaayy. i few facts before anything else -- i live in gueventville II, brgy. Mauway, Mand. city.
TRIVIA: According to my dad... Mauway was the most feared barangay in Mandaluyong because.. maraming siga dito! XDD hahahha. another one, GueventII used to be a volkswagen factory. :] hahahaha..
okay. we were like eating at home, when i asked my dad if ghosts were real, and suddenly he got to this nostalgic mood and he was going on and on about his old days.... how he used to beat up the other kids XD hahaha. tagalugin ko na nga para mas maintindihan...
grabe pala tatay ko dati... dati daw, may bata, crackling his knuckles in front of him, sabi ng tatay ko., "Ano problema mo?"... umalis ung isang bata, nagdala ng kasama... Pagtingin daw sa tatay koo... "Si jojo pala yan oh.." alis sila eh., XD hahahhaha.
mandaluyong before rather where we are right now a few decades before, it was mad. that's what he said. guys fighting each other, my dad even saw a dead guy stuffed up somewhere where they threw garbage.. [roughly infront of the gate of guevent]. Ang barangay mauway ay isang lugar, kapag nagpakita ka ng konting yabang, bugbog ka. -that's what my dad said. there were fights everywhere, dead guys? there were trees too [which i find quite unimaginable right now]. i mean, it was full of action and as my dad was telling stories, i was feeling the adrenaline myself. natawa ako eh, sumuntok daw ng pulis tatay ko eh. XDD hahahha. i wish i was like that. XD
basketball before was a physical sport. you could smack your opponent and not get thrown off the game. XD hahahhaha. what's funny is that they beat up some guys during a game and they stayed in front of the gate and those guys were too scared to try to leave. hahahha.
i liked how he described those fights. isang time daw, they entered another territory tapos naiwan un kasama nila, tapos tinali daw sa puno ng mangga. XD hahaaha. i mean whoah. and then my dad was left in a fight tapos umuwi ung kapatid nia [tito ko] para daw kumuha ng kutsilyo. XD hahahha.
okay. bottomline. i love the adrenaline, those were after the martial law days. it seemed sooo cool. it was like an action movie everyday. i even got a cool quote from my dad, it's what his father told him. "Makipagsuntukan ka, wag ka lang uuwi ng umiiyak." it's pretty cool 'cause i never met my grandfather. i like the thought too. :]
the stories my father shared me tonight. only instilled to me one thing: Weak people won't survive in a world like this.
now i know why my mom married dad. :] pareho kami.
