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Randy's posts with tag: davao
|  | Bits and pieces of our family's ancestral house/museum/farm, Handumanan, in Davao.
Photos were taken when I visited Davao last June 2008. It is called "Handumanan" by its owner and my uncle, Art Aportadera, the regional director of the defunct Ministry of Human Settlements and now a sought-after development consultant.
He explained that seven years ago while constructing the house in a land in Barangay Lacson that he inherited from his parents (my great grandparents), Magdaleno and Josefa Aportadera, an old lady passed by and inquired what he was doing. He said he was building a house to keep the relics of his parents. The old woman retorted, "Aha! Handumanan." Indeed it is.
All over the place, from the ceiling to the floor are mementos, junks and debris from the old family residence on Suazo St., which was torn down after his mother died. Each item has a story to tell of the family's journey from Dingle, Iloilo to Davao City in the land of promise to search for a life of bliss.
Like other Davao migrants' stories, the family's tale of success for which Uncle Art credited his father (my great grandfather) for three important values: hard work, simplicity and efficiency.
In its simply unpretentious structures of ordinary materials, the desire not to waste resources was strongly evident. Old doors, windows and balustrades from the old house were salvaged and imaginatively translocated. Worn tables, non-operational stove and even a ravaged toilet bowl were recycled for new and different purpose.
Idle equipment, languid furniture, quaint clothes, faded photographs and many other old items found new meaning in a new abode. Handumanan is also home for their creative outputs.
Handumanan is our heritage home, a reminder of the migrants who came to Davao and made it what it is today. It is Davao's Migrant Museum with a heart and soul that allows a rediscovery of the past and appreciation of the values of our forebears. A must-see, I should say, to Dabawenyos and visitors. Only if Uncle Art opens it to the public. Then, it can be Davao's answer to Thailand's M.R. Kukrit Pramoj Heritage Home.
Reference: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/dav/2006/11/27/feat/davao.s.migrant.museum.html
Check out my Davao vacation photos
http://randyvitales.multiply.com/photos/album/52/Destination_Davao |
| | I have always heard stories of how beautiful Davao is but I have never thought it was that beautiful! Escaping metropolitan Manila and touring paradise Davao has given me a huge relief.
The view filled with colors of green, the people beautiful and ready to flash a smile, and the air so clean and crisp!
With my grandma, auntie, and cousin (my auntie's first Davao visit in 16 years and my cousin's first visit - they both live in California). They visited to be part of my grandparent's 50th wedding celebration last June 13, 2008. I have never thought home would exist outside of Manila. I have always prided myself with Manila as my "only" home - but it all changed. I was 9 when I last visited Davao, I was young and ignorant to the fact that family existed here.
Hearing the stories of my heritage opened my eyes that I have a family here and a genuine heritage that I am proud of. I will post photos of our ancestral house Handumanan soon. (June 20-22, 2008)
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| Start: | Jun 20, '08 08:00a | | End: | Jun 22, '08 10:00p | | Location: | Kalinan and Davao City |
A special weekend treasuring my "davao" heritage! yahoo!! im soooo excited!! Seeya there!! ^_^
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