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If I were to answer the question raised by Baldwin to Miss Raj, this is what I am going to say: Thank you for that wonderful question sir. Good evening ladies and gentlemen! Good evening Las Vegas! You know what sir, in my 22 years of existence I cannot figure out a very big mistake I’ve done. I am confident with the love my family gives me. But if hopelessness is a great mistake, I must say I felt it because I grew up impoverished. Hopelessness is when we don’t have strong faith in God. And it is through faith which could best explain why I am here. Thank you…

I am hungry reader – in more ways than one. I gobbled up stories and never had my fill. At the same time (while I am reading), I wanted a real taste of whatever food the people in the stories were eating. In time (just recently), I lost the habit of eating what I read about, but never my hunger for reading. I think the stories we love when we were kids stay with us, somewhere in our hearts, to feed our imaginations. We never outgrow our need for them, anymore than we outgrow our need for food. But to me, the books I love are better than a feast.

This was my written exam when I was screened at MSU-Buug this school year. The question was: If you were given the chance to handle subjects in the college, would you be willing to render service as a faculty with or without compensation? Explain comprehensively. And I answered: "I would be very grateful if ever I will be given a chance to handle some subjects. Teaching has become part of me. Compensation is the last thing I am going to think about. The most important thing is that I can contribute to the success of the students. My efforts in my graduate and undergraduate course will be put to waste if I cannot share it to the students who need the knowledge I have learned. Through teaching, I can fulfill my passion of touching lives. I can be of great help to others, while I am giving /providing myself the chance to improve, to grow and to develop as a better person." Owwwsss? Don’t I deserve a clap clap?

You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long. You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are the total package - suave, sexy, smart, and strong. You have the whole world under your spell, and you can influence almost everyone you know. You don't always resist your urges to crush the weak. Just remember, they don't have as much going for them as you do. You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic “Type A” personality. You are full of energy. You are spirited and boisterous. You are bold and daring. You are willing to do some pretty outrageous things. Your high energy sometimes gets you in trouble. You can have a pretty bad temper at times. You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone. You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together. At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together. You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow. You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily. Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is. You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life. You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone. Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don't appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs. You are well rounded, with a complete perspective on life. You are solid and dependable. You are loyal, and people can count on you. At times, you can be a bit too serious. You tend to put too much pressure on yourself. You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You're always up to something. You have a ton of energy, and most people can't handle you. You're very intense. You definitely are a handful, and you're likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun. You are very open. You communicate well, and you connect with other people easily. You are a naturally creative person. Ideas just flow from your mind. A true chameleon, you are many things at different points in your life. You are very adaptable. You are confident, self assured, and capable. You are not easily intimidated. You master any and all skills easily. You don't have to work hard for what you want. You make your life out to be exactly how you want it. And you'll knock down anyone who gets in your way! People see you as a complete enigma, and only you truly understand who you are. You spend most of your time introspecting and seeking truth. You're a very interesting person... but not many people know you enough to realize it. You are a very lucky person. Things just always seem to go your way. And because you're so lucky, you don't really have a lot of worries. You just hope for the best in life. You're sometimes a little guilty of being greedy. Spread your luck around a little to people who need it.

Hi there notebook! You missed me, I bet. It’s not that I don’t love you anymore because I got only two blogs stored in you and that was still last year! How many times I have tried blogging and even attempted to post for you a new blog but I am so sorry I have to prioritize my parenting yet than blogging…I am kind of sorry for that but that doesn’t mean I am going to consider you as my last priority. You do understand that, don’t you? In fact, you are the best listener I have had because you can listen without restrictions and questions to what I am blurting out. But I would appreciate it much if you could also interact to what my opinions would be, it’s kind of entertaining rather than talking to someone who gossips a lot…Yes, talking another people’s lives…And that is what I am about to blog… Sometimes, oh no!…not sometimes but oftentimes I regret I met these persons in my life. Do I have an escape? I simply don’t have. They are my neighbors. Gosh! And that’s why I met them because they mess around the neighborhood spreading gossips…They are a kind of women who are most and often bored of their lives that they really mind someone else’s business…including meddling up some family’s affairs…in fact, they are like inspectors who visit households. It’s not that I am Americanize, I haven’t gone to the US yet, but I am condemning their acts of visiting a household especially in our vicinity because they evade privacy, right? And nobody is sick where they would have to visit every now and then and console the sick for instance…Is it ethical you have to be in a particular household everyday, morning and afternoon? Can’t they mind their own households? Oh! What am I talking about? You simply said Isabelle that they are bored housewives! Yeah! That was it…and they got no households, too…huh!!! Well, I should be grateful if once I became their victim. That simply means, I am somebody who catches their attention. Blame my parents if they consciously or subconsciously raise me a stunning entity of this messy neighborhood. I felt like I am a celebrity whom they can’t simply ignore (excuse me, ahem..Isabelle, no one escapes from “chismosas”). Let’s put it this way, I am someone who rocks their senses. It’s a cliché, I must have something they don’t have! Gracious!!! That’s not my fault if I am a stunning, dignified, freak, headstrong, intellectual. Blame my brilliance…See? I am getting exceedingly confident already. That’s how brilliance does to anybody, positively you shine even in your most humiliating circumstances, right? Is that really what typical housewives should be, I mean typical bored housewives? Can’t they find something to venture about improving their intellect and lifestyles? Or it’s just the way they are, it’s a helpless case that such kind of persons exist. Nobody can’t undo it because they are accustomed to gossip, it became their character already. It is too sad to think about that they will produce children of their kind and leave to them their gossip legacy, isn’t it? I am really fearful that this dilemma would infect me. I am too educated to dwell with “chismis”, but it affects me somehow because they are in and out of my parents’ place…It’s like an infection which can’t be cured without an antibiotic. Is there someone who knows the antibiotic for this infection so I may give them a shot before they can ruin many lives? SOS!

First, call me Isabel. I was born in a humble nipa hut, inside Pagadian City. The year was 1978, a year of the horse. The house which I was born into still remain standing up to the present but with little modifications and revisions, it looks larger today. When I was four, my parents decided to transfer from the city proper to a distant barangay, still in this city. Maybe because, Mamang earned a little and perhaps fulfilling her dream of having our own house, too. Papang was also working at that time but I guess Mamang was earning high then than father. I could still recall we were so abundant then. I was pampered with all the things I needed and one thing I could never forget; I was sitting on my father’s lap together with my two younger brothers, in front of the façade of our new house, eating a dessert prepared by my mother; a picturesque of a happy family then. But things didn’t stay the same when our eldest sister suffered an incurable ailment, a brain cancer. The usual happy atmosphere I was born into changed rapidly. The usual sweetness of my parents turned to fade, and was replaced with sadness, depression and temper. And since we were too small then to understand the things that were happening, all we can do is to abide by the words of my threatening father. The usual father whom I have known was no more. And things even get worst when my sister died. I have experienced the drastic changes of our lives right after my sister’s burial. If such a phrase “from rags to riches” is for fairy tales alone, then I must have experienced it for real. Emotionally, we were greatly affected the way my father’s behavior was corrupted. His voice was always angry and thundering whenever he would start to talk. He turned like a monster every child would be scared of. For years, I viewed father that way that is why when I finally graduated from my secondary, I decided firmly not to stay near to them when I will be in college. t was in my college days that I experienced how it is to be free. I didn’t waste my time enjoying myself to the utmost. Parties here….Parties there….Overnights….Beaches….Billiards…., and Bars, where young boys and girls are taught to be proper alcoholics. To make this long, messy story short, I grew up with no control over my college life. But despite of that, I could sometimes foresee events in the real world – teenage pregnancies, unwed young mothers, unemployment, poverty, drug addiction, and rape; to mention just a few. And these may be the possibilities I would be into if I wouldn’t refrain from being so vulnerable. I had my first taste of success though I have not graduated yet when I was employed as a service crew in a newly established prominent fast food chain sometime in 1999. But it did not take me long to be working there because my father came into the scene. He forbade me from working because he intend to suffocate me and he brought me back here in Pagadian. Of course, it took me quite long to adjust to a life that I was not accustomed anymore. I am imprisoned by too much protection of my parents then. Luckily, I graduated. Perhaps with the help of an inspired heart……It was so overwhelming……At long last, I can be free from now on. Geared up with the state of mind that I can now be free, I will be living my own life; I went away from our home to seek the independence I have been longing for and to be with the person, dear to my heart. At first it was fantastic, as if it was a dream that I would not want to wake up; afraid that the moment would end…but life is really cruel. I had my first experience of a tremendous heartache when I was betrayed by the person whom I loved most and the friend whom I shared with my intimate secrets…It really sucks…as if I can’t breathe and I felt the intense helplessness. I experienced how Cinderella felt sleeping in a pantry. That was the time I realized that I do need my parents well much more than I need the person whom I almost traded-off for my parents. After a couple of months away from home, I finally went back. I felt a little relief somehow. It took me many months to get rid of the memories I had with the person who deeply hurt me. I focused myself in searching for a job and I found one, where I am now connected. Having the feeling that I have lost my self-confidence because of the pain of betrayal and rejection, it came to me that I need to lift myself and fight the struggles I had, which led me to pursue a higher education for myself’s improvement as well as to bring me prestige. A sort of a preparation maybe, anticipating the possibility that in time our ways will cross again. Being busy with my work and studies, I successfully may have forgiven the persons who caused me sufferings and pain. Until it came that a new door was opened for me. At first, I hesitated to enter for I know that the newly-opened door was tricky. I just didn’t know what opted me to be in that threshold, perhaps due to my adventure-natured personality. Though the moment was just short, I enjoyed it more than I ever know. I began to fall in-love again, this time a little different because the man I almost fall for is no longer free. And since things were not meant to be as it was from the very start, the short journey ended. Accordingly, things will never be the same again. So, I continued to live my life normally again. As if things didn’t happen. Sometimes, I would wonder if this life I had is a destiny or fate. Maybe, things really happen with reasons behind it or else I wasn’t born this way at all, and something must have happened in life itself, to make me this way.