To enter the compound, all we had to do was honk and 2 guards would open the gate with a salute. All the adults who lived in the compound were uncles or aunts or my grandparents (unless their were household help or drivers) and all the children there were cousins. We counted the sweet santol trees and the swimming pool that was part of the Big House as part of compound amenities (although we had to be quiet while our grandparents were having their siesta).
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Outsiders thought we all lived in the mansion but each family had spacious grounds for a house and a yard with trees and plants galore plus there was and still is a large park complete with a basketball court, tennis court, and a children'splayground in the center. Before even more of the past becomes history, also before I become too old to remember, this is how my list of ten goes:ġ.We lived on Lizares Avenue so imagine being ten and receiving mail from half way around the world with a mailing address as elegantly brief and personal as:Ģ.Our house was in an exclusive compound, really a small subdivision hidden behind the Lizares Mansion. That I had to write about what these perks were when I was ten or so (The pretty girl with the shy smile in thepicture above is me when I was ten), indicates that things changed as I grew up and many of what we took for granted are no longer ours to enjoy. Given these influences, my experience of life as a Lizares was not exactly what you'd expect of the life of someone who belonged to our province's version of aristocracy.īut we who were children of wealthy grandparents did enjoy a lot of perks. In addition, God gifted me with parents, Heriberto and Aida Lizares, who saw absolutely no value in putting on airs or spending for what we did not need. Her children were therefore less extravagant than their peers.
Lola Dicang, Enrica Alunan Lizares (I'm posing with her bust in the picture above) seems to have been more austere and less inclined to frivolity than other grand matriarchs, however.
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I have a feeling that children of the other big clans that made their wealth from sugar may have had similar experiences. Antonio Lizares, a Centralista (family owned sugar centrals), civic leader, educator (founder of the University ofNegros Occidental), one-time governor of the province, generous benefactor of the Church and the community, and not to forget, a son of one of the grand matriarchs of Negrense society, Enrica Alunan Lizares.īasically, I've written about life as it was when my grandfather was still alive (he died 1966 when I was 10) and for a few years after while I was still what you would call a child. This in mind, I have ventured to write about the things which I thought nothing about but which, on hindsight, I know were possible only because I was the granddaughter of Dr. Many things about our lives, we take for granted and yet every life is unique.
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