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“LAB-AS!” Literally means fresh. This is the word the fish vendors would cry as they walk along the streets almost every dawn to make their presence known. To the people inside their homes, when they hear the word “lab-as” it means fresh fish.
This is what it used to be in my youth. Mostly women, these vendors would walk the streets before the break of dawn. Carrying with them fish, freshly caught – perhaps by their fisherman husbands, to sell to the households along their way. Crying “LAB-AAAAAAAS!”
These days, I no longer hear the usual cry in the morning. Though I still see some fish vendors plying the streets but it’s no longer at dawn; and often times they are now riding a bicycle or a motorcycle and they no longer cry out “LAB-AS!”
Lab-as : oil pastel on paper
Also uploaded on Deviant Art
Very nice
Lovely art work nice and fresh
Wonderful!
Thank you
Interesting Tes!
Thanks
You’re welcome Tes!
Very interesting to learn about other parts of the world.
Thanks, Carol
Times have changed. We’re getting old … But your painting is very interesting.
Thanks, Albert. Indeed times has changed and sadly some cultures fades in time as well…
Yes, very unfortunate indeed. It has so many changed until this day. But that’s how the world move. You’re very much welcome, my friend
Great post!
Thanks