The sweet fields of bacolod

Sugarcane fields around the Talisay-Bacolod border

One of my favorite places to hang around is some small communities of sugar workers at the neighboring fields around the subdivision as you know the dacha sits between the border of the cities of bacolod and talisay, people living here make a living by working in the sugarcane fields lying around the subdivision. the place where i'm going now is a small quarters of sacadas or sugar field workers working for the fields of the lacson family.

the subdivision where I live is formerly in this state after the down of the sugar industry in the 80's one of the lacson family members decided to make his property into a real estate area,  that's what created the subdivision(where I live now), but he retained a few hectares from being developed into a subdivision to continue profiting in the sugar industry.

I lent this 100cc Kawasaki XE motard (actually is a 100cc Kawaski KE 100 enduro modified to motard spec )  for this travel, the sugarcane during this season is still in the maturing stage and at around 4ft in length.

To reach my destination, I used the motorcycle above which is one of the motorcycles lying around the dacha, it was going 5pm when I got to the dirt road, the sun was going down and it was a good time to go there, not too hot and no too dark, when I arrived my appointee was not around but her chichi-san was around to tell me she was doing some chores and was going to the neighboring houses to buy some packed ice (which is very popular here in bacolod and sells from 50 cents to P2.)

This is the worker's main quarters, it is a quadruplex of 4 divisions which 4 families share.

the one who comes around and hangs around with me in that places is a 12 year old tween who is now in her grade 5(going grade 6), she is known in their place as veron.

This kawaii little tween is the one who lets me come to their place time to time, she is known as veron

she is known around the place as "veron(beron)" which is the nickname of her late mother, as she has retained all the qualities of her late mother. she lives off helping her father around chores while she has no classes yet.  

One of the filipino madlang people's favorite pastime basketball.

while the sun was setting the sacadas were having a follow-thru game of basketball after a hard days work in the nearby fields, by these following days the topics being discussed around was about politics during this tallying of who will be proclaimed the so-called bringer of new hope for the nation.

The cabo's carabao Arrives and drinks water from the drainage.. 

The Cabo (Ka-bo) is a person in charge of the sugar field workers and is responsible for issues in the quarters and also is one of the few persons who have active contact with the farm owners or the hacienderos. cabos are also the ones who handle the salaries of the cane field workers.

A corral for the carabao, here the carabao is kept and also given food, the carabao will eat any vegetation it can see i front of it, from cane leaves, to weeds to grasses..

 as the evening approaches some people in the small area comes out their quarters and cools down from the hot weather by dozing off  at a sarisa tree where benches have been put up so that they can sit and doze off, well so much for this I will post more pics if you want about this place.

well we hope some of you guys know more about the slice of life here in Bacolod