Comments on: Colored Glass from the 1940′s onwards http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/colored-glass-from-the-1940s-onwards A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:52:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: greasemonkey http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/colored-glass-from-the-1940s-onwards/comment-page-1#comment-148029 greasemonkey Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:29:05 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=708#comment-148029 =) we may be generations apart (okay, 1 or 2?), MM, but we have so many things in common. this strikes a particularly melancholy chord in me that i would never have thought someone i've never met would be able to pluck. i grew up in my lola's house in Marikina in the late 70s - early 80s so i totally get the whole living in an adams family-esque setting (at least, on stormy nights with the electricity down). i hope i can have the old house restored in the next couple of years... =) we may be generations apart (okay, 1 or 2?), MM, but we have so many things in common. this strikes a particularly melancholy chord in me that i would never have thought someone i’ve never met would be able to pluck. i grew up in my lola’s house in Marikina in the late 70s – early 80s so i totally get the whole living in an adams family-esque setting (at least, on stormy nights with the electricity down). i hope i can have the old house restored in the next couple of years…

]]> By: Mary-Ann http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/colored-glass-from-the-1940s-onwards/comment-page-1#comment-17907 Mary-Ann Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:51:59 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=708#comment-17907 MM, sometimes while reading through your posts, i felt you're the brother we never had. Your memories about kulambo, ghost-stories, spooky 'tuko' sounds, swaying langka and tambis trees were so similar with ours. Except our grandma's house made of cement with pawid roofs. It was a special place! I'll always remember Bicol... Your story made me laugh! Thanks! MM, sometimes while reading through your posts, i felt you’re the brother we never had. Your memories about kulambo, ghost-stories, spooky ‘tuko’ sounds, swaying langka and tambis trees were so similar with ours. Except our grandma’s house made of cement with pawid roofs. It was a special place! I’ll always remember Bicol… Your story made me laugh! Thanks!

]]> By: Patricia http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/colored-glass-from-the-1940s-onwards/comment-page-1#comment-12931 Patricia Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:51:53 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=708#comment-12931 The way you described your lola's house is a lot like going through my lola's house in Cebu, complete with the ghekos. As a kid, I didn't like going to the living room at night by myself because she had a huge collection of masks from all over, one even had something like teeth for a necklace. But she also had a lot of those cyrstals too, like your blue fruit bowl (which went to my mom). I saw similar ones in Greenhills last year and it cost something like P3K. The way you described your lola’s house is a lot like going through my lola’s house in Cebu, complete with the ghekos. As a kid, I didn’t like going to the living room at night by myself because she had a huge collection of masks from all over, one even had something like teeth for a necklace. But she also had a lot of those cyrstals too, like your blue fruit bowl (which went to my mom). I saw similar ones in Greenhills last year and it cost something like P3K.

]]> By: corrrine http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/colored-glass-from-the-1940s-onwards/comment-page-1#comment-12814 corrrine Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:43:56 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=708#comment-12814 I agree with Kulasa...more than the price in terms of pesos are the memories that go with these glass and china wares. Frustrated by the quality of baking pan and measuring glass in a Makati department store, I went to Laguna and rummaged through my mother's cabinets. Lo and behold, I found her yellow and red mixing bowls and aluminum baking pan for upside-down cake. My brother beat me to the glass measuring cup. I marvel that the quality has not changed through the years. Simple stuff but they sure are treasures to me! My mom and I used them since I was 10 years old! I agree with Kulasa…more than the price in terms of pesos are the memories that go with these glass and china wares. Frustrated by the quality of baking pan and measuring glass in a Makati department store, I went to Laguna and rummaged through my mother’s cabinets. Lo and behold, I found her yellow and red mixing bowls and aluminum baking pan for upside-down cake. My brother beat me to the glass measuring cup. I marvel that the quality has not changed through the years. Simple stuff but they sure are treasures to me! My mom and I used them since I was 10 years old!

]]> By: mita http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/colored-glass-from-the-1940s-onwards/comment-page-1#comment-12811 mita Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:42:53 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=708#comment-12811 Carnival glass..my grandmother seemed to have a preference for the pink ones...but she had the blue, the colorless and green ones too...or maybe that was from the other lola. Speaking of inherited china...my mother was showing off her china to my very young nieces years ago and said it would go to them when she passed. After a brief silence, the youngest asks, "Lola, when are you going to die?" Carnival glass..my grandmother seemed to have a preference for the pink ones…but she had the blue, the colorless and green ones too…or maybe that was from the other lola.

Speaking of inherited china…my mother was showing off her china to my very young nieces years ago and said it would go to them when she passed. After a brief silence, the youngest asks, “Lola, when are you going to die?”

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