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Yet, having both spent our youth there, albeit two decades and a half apart, we still share many of the same memories growing up in this extraordinary place we both deep in our hearts shall forever know as home. | Yet, having both spent our youth there, albeit two decades and a half apart, we still share many of the same memories growing up in this extraordinary place we both deep in our hearts shall forever know as home. | ||
The places Ñor Cesar reminisces about, the [https://www.zamboanga.com/arts_and_culture/IcelleARTicle_remembering_old_Burleigh_school.htm Burleigh School] (Central School to me), the pantalan (pier), [[Fort Pilar]], [[Rio Hondo Zamboanga City Philippines|Rio Hondo]], Moret Field (as the old airport road where we used to live and I spent the greater part of my young life used to be called) and especially his ancestral home in Magay street, I imagine were pretty much the way they were for my generation, though perhaps [[Magay]] would forever remind me billiards, because that's where our high school gang would walk to (to save on the 25 centavo jeepney fare) from the Normal School (already renamed State College during our time) so we can have more mesadas or games of pool at the Olympic Billiard Hall. | The places Ñor Cesar reminisces about, the <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.zamboanga.com/arts_and_culture/IcelleARTicle_remembering_old_Burleigh_school.htm Burleigh School]</span> (Central School to me), the pantalan (pier), [[Fort Pilar]], [[Rio Hondo Zamboanga City Philippines|Rio Hondo]], Moret Field (as the old airport road where we used to live and I spent the greater part of my young life used to be called) and especially his ancestral home in Magay street, I imagine were pretty much the way they were for my generation, though perhaps [[Magay]] would forever remind me billiards, because that's where our high school gang would walk to (to save on the 25 centavo jeepney fare) from the Normal School (already renamed State College during our time) so we can have more mesadas or games of pool at the Olympic Billiard Hall. | ||
Very much like Ñor Cesar, our family had Chinese blood on both sides of our family. Although my ''Lolo'' [[Pantaleon Lorenzo Baños|Pantaleon Baños]], who was appointed deputy provincial governor of Basilan province shortly after the Liberation, was three-quarters Castellano (Spanish, his father [[Julian Baños]] was a surveyor for the Spanish Army from Seville, Spain while his mother Felipa Lorenzo was a mestiza), my ''Lola'' Maling's father Jose Espinosa, better known as ''Que Kiala'' of Isabela, Basilan was from Amoy, in present-day Fujian province in China. My Maternal Lolo Lorenzo Jr.'s father was also obviously Chinese (Maximino Lee Desembrana of Mauban, Quezon) while my Nanay Ester's Maternal Great Grandfather Quentin Hee Yong Ko (later hispanized to Jiongco) of Navotas, Rizal was also from Amoy). | Very much like Ñor Cesar, our family had Chinese blood on both sides of our family. Although my ''Lolo'' [[Pantaleon Lorenzo Baños|Pantaleon Baños]], who was appointed deputy provincial governor of Basilan province shortly after the Liberation, was three-quarters Castellano (Spanish, his father [[Julian Baños]] was a surveyor for the Spanish Army from Seville, Spain while his mother Felipa Lorenzo was a mestiza), my ''Lola'' Maling's father Jose Espinosa, better known as ''Que Kiala'' of Isabela, Basilan was from Amoy, in present-day Fujian province in China. My Maternal Lolo Lorenzo Jr.'s father was also obviously Chinese (Maximino Lee Desembrana of Mauban, Quezon) while my Nanay Ester's Maternal Great Grandfather Quentin Hee Yong Ko (later hispanized to Jiongco) of Navotas, Rizal was also from Amoy). | ||