I don't believe this. I've been living here for so long now. I can't remember the last time I had to introduce myself around. I don't think that times have really changed that hard so far. We only have gotten used to having too many familiar faces around, that we didn't have to greet and dared taking time to notice some of our own hometown folk anymore. Like school perhaps. Sure, we have more paved roads. We have more villages and subdivisions, villas, and what have we here. Well, let's see.
We live in a city where it's supposed to have been a province first before it came to have been called a city. But our place called "Lungsod ng Dabaw" or "City of Davao" is supposedly in the middle of two provinces. Or should I say four provinces? But that's not exactly always true. Because we somehow or still do refer our city to belong to Davao del Sur (the south) rather than Davao del Norte (the north) . And we also now have the Occident and the Oriental. Oriental meaning the East, the Occidental meaning the West. But here comes another which seems to want to squeeze in. Yes, here comes "Davao de Oro." Will we have "Davao de Occo" soon enough?
Yes, I understand that every Province is composed of a municipality (a munisipyo). And a Municipality (a munisipyo) grows out to become a City (a lungsod). A City that belongs to numbered Region and somehow belonged to a State. States that form a Country.
If you Zoom in geographically, the smallest basic unit is supposed to be a family with a desired lot. A lot of around say a hundred to three hundred square meters area. A lot of only around a hundred square meters can not really suffice in the long run when a family grows to stay and remain in their own premises. Unless, you know. The Unlesses. One child, several children?
Okay, say we have a street of around 14 LOTS. And these 14 LOTS will face a street which is named or will eventually be named after something. Say a street that is named after a planet. And these lots will have lots at the back of each of them. The same area. 14 lots and 14 lots are equal to 28 lots. These 28 lots of and or almost the same area will have to form a BLOCK. Yes, we now have a block of 28 lots. So the BLOCK would sure look like a rectangle with streets around, four streets if you simply draw it on your mind. There will also be 4 corner lots. These corner lots will have two streets across them of course. And so basically, we will have more lots that would face the same street, 24 if we count them, and we have four lots that will have to face two streets. Get the picture? Well, yeah. It means that lots will almost or will belong to the same block but not the same street. Get it?
Okay, now we have a BLOCK of 28 lots. And so if we make four to even six BLOCKS of the same size, we can eventually call it a DIVISION or a SUBDIVISION. The more accepted term is a VILLAGE since these lots will eventually have VILLAS formed or constructed on them. So, these lots will have to be identified to have numbers on them. I understand that we call it HOUSE NUMBERS. And they will have STREET NAMES. In some places, they will have to identify them by BLOCK NUMBERS and LOT NUMBERS instead of just STREET. And beyond how we identify them, we will never even know how our lots have been numbered or named after by other obscurities.
But this is how I simply understood it. A VILLAGE, a row of houses, of blocks and streets, along with other VILLAGES, a group of VILLAGES that form a barrio, called a BARANGAY. A BARANGAY, along with other BARANGAYS that form a DISTRICT. And a DISTRICT, along with other DISTRICTS that form a CITY.
And somehow we have another way of naming them. A SITIO, A PUROK. Clearly, it's troubling, by how this has come to be. Well, I'd like to think of it as simply an IDENTIFICATION between the FARMERS and the BUILDERS. And we're not talking about the FISHERFOLK yet, who are closer to the seas and the LIVESTOCK producing folk. Well, as I understood it, that a group of VILLAGES that are closer to the FARMS, is called A SITIO, And a group of VILLAGES that are paved and are closer to the CITY is called a PUROK. And so we could have several PUROKS and several SITIOS that form a BARRIO or the BARANGAY. But then again, this could all get mixed up. And how we name them will have to depend on the PURPOSE of who and why we had to name, label, or identify them that way.
For what PURPOSE? Is there a CRISIS? Economic, Medical, Spiritual, Financial, Physical? An IDENTITY CRISIS still? Funny, how we sometimes get to identify people by where and how they live. SLUM AREAS, DEPRESSED AREAS, RED LIGHT DISTRICTS, MIDDLE CLASS, LUXURY HOMES, LOW-COST HOUSING, APARTMENTS, AUTONOMOUS REGIONS, HOUSING AUTHORITIES, RELOCATION, TEACHERS VILLAGE, WAR ZONES, HAUNTED, ABANDONED, UNOCCUPIED HOUSES.
Well, we have another way of naming areas in our CITIES too. The INSTITUTIONAL ZONES, THE RESIDENTIAL ZONES, THE COMMERCIAL ZONES, THE AGRICULTURAL, and THE INDUSTRIAL ZONES. And of course, we can always name them HALF AND HALF of this ZONES, SEMI? Basically, it's just PUBLIC and PRIVATE ZONES and our ACCESSES. We have leaders and workers, elected officials for our ways of living. It's still funny how we still do not get along quite well enough. Politics, in the name of progress. Hoaxes, fake news, deception, the media war, and theatrical operations. Sororities and fraternities. Old gangs and tribulations. Ethnic diversities and Medical Emergencies. Foreign affairs and tourism operations. Half breeds and alienated folk. Poor and rich, elites, sub elites, and lawyers. Law enforcement agencies, law-abiding citizens.
Occupants. Occupants of Inter-Galaxy and ExtraPulmonaryCoronary craft. Haha
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