Tracing the Ancestors

The story that i could always remember when we were still young was all about how my father's dad came here in the Philippines and how simple life were. My father will always tell us the story how his Papa (pronounced like those of a Spanish) arrived here in the Philippines. I do not know what is the real name of that Chinese boat that was used when my grandfather went here in the Philippines. All i knew was that the tip of the boat had an engraved of the dragon face, which was in front of  the ship ,and my grandpa would always go here in the Philippines for trading, until he decided to stay here in the Philippines together with his cousins. My grandpa had a wife and two sons left in Canton,China. My dad used to tell me that his older brother still have the picture of their brothers from China, but they were way older than them. Like what can be seen in most of the Chinese movies, my uncles in China, which i did not see at all, had these very clean frontal head and long hair which was tightly locked by a pin, i do not know if what they call it. To continue, my grandpa married my grandmother who had a mixed blood of an Italian and Filipino. I think they (my grandma and grandpa) used to live in Leyte and her (grandma) family name was Rosales, until she married my grandpa, who owned a small business in there place, which was a tailor shop. My grandma was only 16 when she was tied  or  got married to my grandpa and by the way his name was Jacinto Chan Seng (or Sing, i really forgot) and I believe his family name is not Seng, since in Chinese, the last name is not the family name but the first name is. So our family name was Chan, and i think Jacinto was the Filipino name of my grandpa. My dad also told me that my grandma with the real name Eustaquia Rosales had siblings left in Leyte, and she had a brother who was a priest. However, my grandpa together with his family decided to transfer to Cebu and had business in there and also here in Bacolod City where we live, during the height of world war 2. In addition, our family name should not be Ching, it should be Chan, since during the reign of other presidents before Marcos, those Filipino-Chinese that was not registered in the Philippines will be deported, so my grandpa decided to register his family name, however, our so called nice Civil registry, made some topographical error, and instead of Chang from Chan, it was made to Ching. Moreover, the other family name of my aunties and uncles were not Ching, it was Rosales which was taken from their mother's last name since Rosales was a Filipino last name and no once will question them if they will have a Filipino last name. That was how awful Philippine government before to those who had Chinese blood here. There was also a point that my grandpa asked his wife that he will bring half of his children back to China and manage some businesses in there and there land as well, but according to my dad, their mother told their father that, he can go to China whenever he wants, as long as he will not bring the children with him. Since then, my grandfather never left Philippines and decided to live here for good. My grandpa and his wife started a business here in Bacolod and Cebu.

My dad would always tell me that when they had Bakeshop before, there were plenty of eggs and flour in the shop and they (his brother) would even play inside and threw some eggs.  Until there was  this tragedy that happened in Bacolod City, where the fire took their business which was a bakeshop. From then, they had another business in Shopping area, shopping area is part of the capitol subdivision now, and that place was know to be the China town of Bacolod City, even until now. Most of the old Filipino-Chinese business men or women still have their own businesses in there.

My dad married my mom who was studying in University of Negros Occidental Recolletos at the age of 19, while my dad was 27 at that time. My mom would always tell us that even though my dad was a way to older than him, since he did not had any vices in life at all, he was attracted to him. But at first my mom told me that she thought everything was a joke. My dad used to run their own family business, which was a tailoring as well and i think it was Manila tailoring, since i still have the badges of their business. However, their business did not last, until we went to different regions in the Philippines just to find a right spot for a wonderful life. But they say, no matter what, you will always go back to the place where you belong. And here we are in Bacolod, living here and we do not have any businesses at all, since my dad already crossed over. I love having ideas of having a business but after a day, i do not like it anymore. I do not like risking myself in a business that i think will not last. Like what i said before, I love giving and making ideas on what do in a business, but i never made a business of my own. Soon, i will have a business of my own, i am just thinking what business it is. I want to start from my own money, even though it is so little, it will become big soon. Since everything starts from a dust until that dust become a brick.

I really want to see my long lost relatives from China and from leyte, however, it would be to difficult to do it, since most of the oldies were already dead and the younger generations has no totally idea of who were their relatives are. For now, i just want to share this, and somewhere, i think there will be a way that i can meet my relatives.



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The Event that Horrified the World

It has been more than 5 days now, since that hostage crisis in the Philippines happened. At first, i thought it was a hostage problem that took place in Thailand, since i never read the entire article, all i just saw online was the picture of an old Chinese guy held by this armed guy in uniform.

As the day started to turn into a dark area, lit by human made lights. While my family and I were having dinner in resto-grill, my big brother opened this topic that our cousin sent him an sms that there was a hostage crisis happening in Manila, so i told my brother that it was the same thing that happened in Thailand,but later I found out that it was not in Thailand, but in Manila.

My mum and I arrived in our house at around 8.00 pm that same day, and turned on our tv in the lounge area. There it was the event that will exposed to the world how hideously criminal that perpetrator was. I did not stayed focused on the new on tv, but instead i kept on searching online what movies to download for me to watch in the middle of the night.

However, i heard gun shots, and so i hurriedly went outside my room  and seen on tv that police officers were shooting fire on the bus everywhere. I said to myself, that's not right, shooting the body of the Bus would definitely add up to more casualties aside from those being killed by the criminal.

Then after the shooting, there it was, they took the body of the suspect which was already dead and no life at all, since it was described by one of the reporter from one of the biggest News and current affairs company that it was tremendously ugly. Then i saw this Chinese nationality held by men from the bus.

There were many casualties in that event which took 11 hours to negotiate and in the end was a bloody negotiation.

Now, the problem was that, most of the Filipino worried to much of what will the Chinese government and its citizens to do them, which would include stoppage of hiring domestic helpers and being violent to the Filipinos, where there was no any report yet, but some Chinese people asked their helper to go back in the Philippines. Maybe it is being part of patriotism, which sometimes is not good.

Now, the Chinese government blamed the Philippines government for the even that took place. The world sympathize with the victims of this horrible crime of the year, as to my view. However, the Chinese government has no right to blame the government of the other country for the event. The  government has many responsibilities to look for, and even though security of the land is one of its responsibility, it could not control every human beings mental capacity to do the crime, every person is unique, no one can control them. However, there was some lapses in part of the law enforcement, shooting the body of the bus is not right, it could hit some people, since they do have sharp shooter, let this guy handle the situation with the order of course from its boss.

This is not the time for blaming, this is the time for corrections, this is not the time for grudges, this is the time for peace, let us be one. And let no single human entity ruined the relation of the two country.

它已超過 5天，因為這在菲律賓人質危機發生。起初，我以為這是一個人質問題發生在泰國，since我從來不讀了整篇文章，所有剛才我看到online是一個古老的picture中的這個傢伙 held武裝 guy穿軍裝。
由於天開始變成一個暗區，點燃人類作出燈。雖然我的家人和我吃晚飯的resto -烤架，我的大哥哥開這個話題，我們的表兄給他一個短信，有一名人質危機發生在馬尼拉，所以我告訴我的哥哥，這是同樣的事情發生在泰國，但後來我發現這不是在泰國，但在馬尼拉舉行。
我媽媽和我來到我家在晚上8時左右在同一天，並打開我們的電視在休息區。在那裡，它是什麼事件會暴露給世界如何令人髮指的犯罪的行為人。我沒有精力始終集中在新的電視，而是我一直在尋找什麼電影在線下載觀看我在中間的夜晚。
不過，我聽到槍聲，所以我趕緊出去我的房間，看到電視上，警方人員開槍射擊，巴士隨處可見。我對自己說，這是不對的，拍攝人體的巴士將無疑增加了更多的傷亡，除了那些被殺害的犯罪。
然後，槍擊事件後，那裡是，他們把身體的犯罪嫌疑人已經死亡，這是沒有生命的一切，因為它是描述一個記者從其中一個最大的新聞和時事 company，這是極其醜陋。然後，我看到這個中華民族舉行的男子從巴士。
有許多人員傷亡事件發生在這 11個小時的談判，最後是一個血淋淋的談判。
現在的問題是，大部分的菲律賓人擔心到很多東西，將中國政府和它的公民做他們，其中包括僱用家庭傭工的停工和被暴力的菲律賓人，那裡還沒有任何報告，但一些中國人民要求他們的助手回去在菲律賓。也許是生活的一部分愛國，有時是不好的。
現在，我國政府指責菲律賓政府對甚至發生了。世界同情這種可怕罪行的受害者，今年，以我的看法。然而，我國政府無權指責政府對其他國家的事件。政府有很多責任，尋找，即使安全的土地是一種責任，它無法控制每個人的精神能力的人犯罪，每個人都是獨一無二的，沒有人能夠控制它們。不過，有一些失誤，部分執法，拍攝人體的巴士是不對的，它可以擊中一些人，因為他們有敏銳射手，讓這傢伙處理的情況，當然該命令從它的老闆。
這不是責備的時候，這是更正的時候，這不是怨恨的時候，這是一次和平，讓我們一。讓任何一個人的實體破壞了兩個國家的關係。


This is my “Story” © 2010 J.J.L.C (previously known as C.GT)