boxfuls of yesterday

It rained hard here in Davao last night. It even made the news. Pumasok yung tubig sa 'bodega room' namin and nabasa yung mga boxes and other stuff. Buti na lang hindi nabasa yung shelves ng books. Phew! Anyway, kanina, naglinis ng bahay si nanay and she gave me two boxes to look through.

One box was marked Jacinth's and the other,Jacinth's stuffed toys. These boxes were from Manila and brought here about 7 years ago when we first came to Davao. They've been stocked in some out-of-the-way corner in six houses since. (Yeah, we're nomads... six houses in seven years! Buti nga Davao City lang yan paikot-ikot. Nung nasa Luzon kami... But that's another story.) Minsan, nililipat ung laman sa ibang box, minsan dinadagdagan yung laman. Pero ngayon ko lang ulit nakita yung laman ng mga boxes na yun. And the opening of those boxes was a first-class ride to yesterday. I didn't shed tears. Hehe, andun kase si nanay e. Haha! But I was very glad to go through all that stuff and the memories that accompanied them.

I found the moose given by a friend in Grade 3 and the bear in pink and pearls given by Honey for my 18th birthday. There were cards and letters from grade school til college. May gulay, ang drama nung iba, ang nonsense naman nung iba. Pero lahat sila nakakatuwa basahin. Andun pa yung red bear na binigay ng Ninang ko who knows when. Andun pa rin yung autograph book ko, sticker albums, stationeries, ballpens, tickets, notebooks in highschool (on trigo, math, physics, and chem!) bookmarks, CAT patch, wrapper ng candy, id (nung elementary) at kung anu-ano pa. I found my high school diploma and the program during that graduation (2000). Andun din yung acceptance letters ko sa UPMindanao, course outlines, grades for the first year, and the program during my college graduation (2004). Wow! Oh, the pillow with the clowns on it in the foreground of the 7th pic *points up* was my pillow when I was about 3 years old and the green house with four little toys in front was my favorite when I was 5! ^_^ The gray, cross-eyed rabbit was manong jd's when he was really small. Katuwa noh. =) We could not find Monkeyhinito - our favorite stuffed monkey na may velcro ung mga kamay tapos pwede mo i-wrap sa leeg mo ung arms nya because of it. Sayang, we really loved that monkey. Asan na kaya siya? I think naitapon ko na rin ung mga valentine cards ko nung grade 2 so hindi ko na rin sila nakita dun sa box.

Syempre, hindi ko na binalik yung lahat ng gamit na nakita ko sa loob ng box. I learned long ago, dahil sa nomadic namin na buhay na hindi matalinong gawain ang mag-ipon ng gamit na hindi mo naman kailangan. So tinapon ko na yung iba. Ipapamigay naman namin yung iba. Yung iba, yung mga hindi ko pa kaya pakawalan at masyado maraming memories na maganda na connected sa kanila, itinago ko na ulit. Dun na muna sila ulit sa box. =) Malay mo, maibigay ko pa sila sa mga anak nila manong... or sa anak ko!