Sep 21 - Day 11 to 50
My maternal great-grandparents are Mauricio Jardeleza and
Circumcision Belleza (yes, Circumcision!).
We called them Tatang Iciong and Lola Budo (glottal stop at the
end).
Tatang Iciong died young but Lola Budo lived until the ripe
age of 92. She lived with her sons, tio
Julio was the eldest who married tia Muni (Filomena); tio Efren and tio
Pido. Her only daughter, my nanay Concing,
she’d visit from time to time.
When my brother Alvin was born, both my Lola Budo and Nanay
Concing lived with us in Sta. Mesa, Manila.
I will never forget the funny scene, myself just turned 4, my Lola Budo
was playing with Alvin, raising him high with her arms calling him a good,
handsome baby when he suddenly peed straight into her mouth! Good thing she did not drop the baby, putting
him safely back in his crib as she ran to gargle and clean her mouth in the
kitchen sink, my nanay Concing laughing so hard, she was in tears.
Lola Budo was very fair, so white she said it was from the
Chinese side of her ancestry. She’d been
a petite lady but when she grew older, her back started to bow, that by the
time she was in her 70’s she looked like a walking question mark.
She was playful and told funny stories usually about her
youth or about the war (1940’s) or about the troubles my grandmother got
to. She died in 1993 just before I left
for the UAE.
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