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Then there was a harmless-looking middleaged man in green camisa de chino with rolled
sleeves who must have entered asleep. When I
noticed him he was already snugly entrenched
in a corner seat, with his slippered feet
comfortably planted on the opposite seat, all the
while his head danced and dangled with the
motion of the train. I could not, for the love of
me, imagine how he would look if he were
awake.
Siesta
Leopoldo Serrano
When I was a boy, one of the rules at home that
I did not like at all was to be made to lie on the
bare floor of our sala after lunch. I usually lay
side by side with two other children in the
family. We were forced to sleep by my mother.
She watched us as we darned old dresses,
read an awit, or hammed a cradle song in
Tagalog.
She always reminded us that sleeping at noon
enables children to grow fast like the grass in
our yard. In this way, in most Filipino homes
many years ago, children made to understand
what the siesta was. Very often I had to pretend
to be asleep by closing my eyes.
Once while my mother was away, I tries to
sneak out of the house during the siesta hour. I
had not gone far when I felt something hit me
My Home
Dr. Jose Rizal
I have nine sisters and one brother. My father, a
model of fathers, had given us and education in
proportion to our modest means. By dint of
frugality, he was able to build a stone house, to
buy another, and to raise a small nipa hut in the
midst of a groove we had, under the shade of
the banana and other trees.
There the delicious atis displayed its delicate
fruit and lowered its branches as if to save me
from trouble of reaching out for them. The
sweet santol, the scented and mellow tampoy,
the pink makopa vie for my favor. Farther away,
the plum tree, the harsh but flavorous casuy,
the beautiful tamarind pleases the eye as much