my own shack

Last Sunday, I went to a rural town in our province. Lola asked me to take her to the wake of her brother-in-law’s wife. I’ve never actually met Insong Adela, as Lola called her, and I barely knew the people there. So, while Lola was talking to our relatives, I, along with cousins Ian and Eduard and a friend, decided to walk around the area. Generally, the area was quiet, with simple (and sometimes barely finished) concrete houses lining the streets. There were small sari-sari stores in the area, where the bantay sleepily watches the afternoon showbiz shows in their Samsung televisions while manning the store (for some reason, no one was selling softdrinks). Though it was already afternoon, it was still hot and humid, that is, until I spotted a ricefield.

It was already decided. We were gonna walk into that field. For some reason, I am particularly attracted to a bukid. As a child, whenever we pass by the green fields on our way to Manila, I look dreamily at these fields, especially at those small houses in the center. I want to try to live in there. I’ve dreamt of so many stuff to do there. The most peculiar I thought about was hiding billions of cash in that small lone house in the field. haha. My idea was that nobody knows I am filthy rich. Well, that remains a dream. The house, and the filthy rich. haha.

We were playing/running around as were walking on the pilapil. I didn’t know it was a little hard to not fall out of the pilapil. Then we saw a little shack in the middle of the field. Though it was a little far from the street where we came from, we made it some sort of a quest to make it there. There wasn’t really much of a hurdle, only the grasses and some thorny stuff and the long-distance walk. We managed to get to that little shack, sat down, and enormously enjoyed the air touching our faces. I hope my cousins appreciated the place as much as I did. And I think they did (they took pictures of themselves there). We didn’t notice that we were already gone for hours.

 The place we went to looks like this, even the shack. Photo from the web.