to our dead sampaguita, may you rest in peace...
Saturday, August 25, 2007
pinagbibintangan ng lola na ni-murder daw ng tatay ang kanyang alagang sampaguita. she doesn't directly say it, pero ganito kasi ang mga banat nya"inaalagan ko naman mabuti, dinidiligan ng maayos, pero bakit namatay? bakit kaya namatay???"
parang gusto nyang sabihin na pinakialaman ni tatay ang halaman nya. for the obvious reason that it's only the two of them in the house who knows how to take care of plants.
so, to appease lola, dahil talaga namang hindi sya mapakali, we went to her suking garden shop to buy a replacement for the sampaguita. at siempre, tatay offered to drive us there. since we have the convenience of the car, lola brought along the dead sampaguita and other pots so that the plant she would by later could already be placed on those pots.
when we reached aling conching's garden, i handed lola my purse, so i can take photos of some of the flowers. while taking picture, i heard tatay talking with one of the gardeners
"pare, paki-autopsy naman itong sampaguita namin. paki-tingin kung ano talaga ang sanhi ng kanyang pagkamatay"
gusto kong gumulong sa kakatawa, kasi after nun, humirit na naman si lola, with the same line
"inaalagan ko naman mabuti, dinidiligan ng maayos, pero bakit namatay? bakit kaya namatay???"
ang pobreng hardinero, mukhang walang maisagot. and perhaps sensing that he is in deep threat (masama na ang tingin ng lola ko - ang kanyang malupit na dagger looks, and my father's facial contortion signaling a heated debate is so much obvious).. he just said
"baka po kasi nagalaw ang ugat, o baka naparami ng dilig"
hhmm. playing safe si manong hardinero.
ang tatay ko, napakamot na lang ng ulo, but my lola, she never stopped complaining. hindi ko na inintindi kung ano na ang mga sinabi ng lola. i just went on on taking photos.
lola had settled with 4 different flowering plants (akala ko sampaguita lang ang bibilihin namin), one is a sampaguita, and the other one is a forget me not. i don't know the names of the other two.
below are photos i took at aling conchings:
