Dressed down and nowhere to go

What’s on your fridge? That’s what Toni asked in The Ref Door Project. There's even a first installment of people who want to show off their doors (hahaha, mundane?)

My take: “What type of fridge are you?” Hey, a title for a meme!

Souvenir magnets, check. Kiddie art, check. Bills, calendar, grocery list, check, check, check.

Verdict: You are a fashionably old-fashioned fridge. You like to dress up even if you merely stay in at home. You cannot bear to part with some articles of clothing for sentimental reasons. But you also have your coasters firmly planted on the marble floor as you can’t deny the practical streak in you.

That being said, here’s what fridgy looks like at the moment. No gussying up before the big photo shoot; I ‘yam what I ‘yam!

I’m not really a souvenir magnetty type of fridge. There’s the Hello Kitty clip from one of our Japanese friends (on the front, look for pink). Then there’s an orange Palawan fishy, the last of its school. It’s companions dropped off me one by one, separating magnet from fish, because some people have the nerve to slam the fridge door.

My front door is quite homely, with mostly practical stuff – Dui’s school notes, her sked and a bundle of papers from her school. Throw in an old birthday party invitation, flyers and whatnot. School’s been out for ages. Just goes to show that some people are really lazy to help clean me up.

There is an itty bitty photosticker of the family (can you see it?). It was the first time we’d had one of those taken and Dui was only 3 at the time.

My left side (right on your screens) isn’t any different. D designated it as Kim Possible's mission to guard her masterpiece art storybook entitled “THE (unintelligible) KATRPLAR” made when she was about 3. Kim lost her feet in a scuffle, so her feet have scattered but continue to be useful even after amputation, holding up a Valentine piece of art and … yeah you guessed it, more boring papers.

My crown tells another story. It's where the three little piggies run all the way home. Oh, and a squirrel too. These wood carvings depict animals native of Palawan (yes, we have native squirrels in the Philippines). Y personally knows who carved the piggies and I picked up the squirrel when I went for a visit. To be technically correct, the pigs are wild boars or baboy damo. Pigs like to eat, so do we! Oh, by the way, baboy damo tastes really good too.

You say my hat is too small. That’s a tingkop, a native Palawan basket. The Pala’wan and Tagbanua tribes make bigger versions to store grain and other perishables. Its ingenious design keeps out the rats and insects. Bought for a song, this one is an antique and is dark because it was colored with soot. We know an antique when we see one.

There’s also a calendar with fit-looking women – something to aspire for (and a pen), an old plastic bag, and a brown paper bag containing a cone of mahandi for henna tattoos.

The grocery list is on the other side. Including a photo magnet of my niece. Among other things. That’s my mysterious side (sly smile).

So, join in!