I'm a Baby!

My eldest brother, Kuya Rexel, the our youngest and only sister, Tin-Tin, and I were hanging out at our backyard. Actually hanging out is not the right term because you couldn’t really do that in our backyard. Typical middle-class home kasi na dirty kitchen, at sampayan ang likod-bahay namin. Basta may ginagawa kami ru’n. Naka-squat ako sa sahig katabi ng sister ko while Kuya Rexel was standing, hovering over whatever it is we were doing. Then he scolds me, “Ric-Ric, ang baho mo! May putok ka!” Siguro nagbibinata na’ko nu’n so may posibilidad na ngang putukin ako. But Tin-Tin immediately came to my defense. “Hindi, ‘yung sampayan ng brief ‘yung mabaho.” Sa mga ala-alambre kasi naming sampayan merong nakasabit na plastic foldable sampayan ng mga small items, ‘yung korteng payong. Matangkad ang kuya ko so nakatapat ‘to sa ilong niya. True enough, nang pinaamoy sa kanya ‘to ng sister ko, may putok nga ‘yung sampayan.