After the mess brought by the incredibly high floods, it’s time for us to clean our house and bring everything back to order. It was very hard and tiring because it’s not just any ordinary house cleaning. We have to remove everything to get rid of the mud and its smell in our house. It was general cleaning to the nth level as my mom exclaimed.
However, our tiredness was occasionally diminished by the little treasures we found hidden in the deepest parts of cabinets and other storage areas. My parents thought we’ve lost or we never had these things before. Here are some of them:
1. A One-Peso coin minted in 1907, the early years of the American occupation in the Philippines.
2. Antique silverwares from my great-grandparents.
3. Antique Chinaware dating back to the Spanish, American, and Japanese eras.
4. Gold-plated “peinetas” or combs from my grandmother.
5. The cord and coins or “aras” used in my parents wedding.
wow, those are real treasures! i particularly like the one-peso coin and the comb.
the typhoon also forced my family to clean up the house, but unlike you, we only found so many things to throw away
By: barrycade on October 6, 2009
at 3:18 pm
i thought you found an antique gun?! or did i hear it wrong? haha. cooool.
By: jesschika on October 12, 2009
at 9:59 am