Our First Born
August 20, 2002, God blessed us with a healthy baby girl. Rose May is now 10, a daughter any parent would like to have and wanted. Our pianist, a fulfillment to his father's frustration of being a musician, our joy and pride. She maybe a tiny one but an achiever herself. A consistent honor pupil. Never will she settle for a second best, struggles at her best always.
Raven Joy
Raven Joy, as highly intelligent just like the bird raven where her name was derived is indeed witty but naughty. A lovable kid herself seems to get what she wants through her charms is also a promising pianist and singer. A full blooded Denila is loyal and defender of her sister, will not think twice to jab and bite her sister's aggressor. A promising model maybe, would always pose her hands on her face!
“Excuse me, are the names of those who qualified for the Summer Job posted? I asked him. “I don’t know, I still have my exam!” he annoyingly answered and turned his back to me.
I was left standing for seconds with clinched fist. How could this man so rude! Before my irritation turned to anger and my clinched fist landed on him I hurried to my feet off that study area.
Several years passed, I continued with my studies.
At third Year College, we became classmates in CS 161- one of the hardest subject for me but seems to be the easiest for him. Nothing unusual happened on those encounters except that one time, on my way to my seat he stopped me to see one of his programs, well, maybe to brag! I stopped and nod as an agreement to his perfectly running program. The days went on so fast and that before everyone knew it, the semester ended.
On the first semester on our fifth year in school, we became classmates again. On one of our groupings, one my group mates insisted that we chose him to be our leader. With a protest in my mind I agreed with the group and asked who is Roderick? Annie answered, he is absent right now, Don’t you know him?, He is very good in programming. He is also good in circuit designing. He has all the skill we need to pass on this subject! And so I said to myself, this man must be popular and intelligent. The next meeting, I’ve met him again.
The group decided to rent a place for us to meet every time we will have to put into reality the theories we’ve been discussing behind the creation of a SAP Microprocessor (Simple As Possible). As a working student I am almost always absent in our scheduled session since I have work to do. On one of our sessions where I was present I promised myself to really help. As punishment to my absence, I was tasked to assist him on the scheduled activity that night while the rest of the group went asleep. True to what I promised, I did all what he requested without complain. He asked me to hand him the LED, switch on or off the soldering iron, look for a resistor, gave him the soldering paste, etc…
As we continue with our SAP project he would request me to assist him whenever I was present. In return I would graciously assist him until we became close and comfortable with each other. At times we would took a break and talk about anything, my life, and his life and eventually agreed on certain things laughing then got back to work. We successfully finished our SAP project with flying colors.
On the last semester of our stay in school we ended on the same group despite disapproval of our special someone who noticed our closeness.
As graduation was fast approaching, the more we became close to each other. We were like magnets to each other trying to pull one another closer. Our days together were always full of happiness. But along with this happiness was the feeling of uncertainty in our hearts. Uncertainty on where this feeling brought us, of the thought that we are hurting people. People who we knew dearly loved us more than anything else in the world.
We gather our senses and we both decided to end our relationship- a relationship we both do not know what to call but sure it was pure and sincere. He decide to mend his relationship to a girl he had committed with. I myself broke off to the man I once loved.
But fate brought us together again. We were both accepted in an institution we applied before graduation. Our being together in work eased my pain of losing him. I continued to silently love him. One day another opportunity knocks his door. He passed the examination conducted by one of the government agencies and was ask to report on its headquarters for formal training. He went to the training while I continued to teach.
After a year of teaching I quit my job. I pursued my plan in going abroad. While my application abroad is on processed I decided to work to support the expenses of my application. Maybe it was destiny’s work, I happened to work an hour ride to where he was trained and indoctrinated to become an honorable military officer. I thought our romance would be bed of roses until he was given a month break to go home before going to Spain to pursue a month training.
But what pain can equal a pain of lowly heart left behind with the reason that what they have shared together was nothing but a coincidence. But a heart that truly loves is a forgiving heart.
I set him free. I prayed for his decisions. I prayed for myself. I prayed for wisdom for both of us. I prayed for strength.
And so when he texted me to fetch him in the airport from Spain, and in our embrace we both know that what happened to us were not coincidence at all but meant to be.
On April 3, 2002 we finally tied the knots!
August 20, 2002, God blessed us with a healthy baby girl. Rose May is now 10, a daughter any parent would like to have and wanted. Our pianist, a fulfillment to his father's frustration of being a musician, our joy and pride. She maybe a tiny one but an achiever herself. A consistent honor pupil. Never will she settle for a second best, struggles at her best always.
Raven Joy
Raven Joy, as highly intelligent just like the bird raven where her name was derived is indeed witty but naughty. A lovable kid herself seems to get what she wants through her charms is also a promising pianist and singer. A full blooded Denila is loyal and defender of her sister, will not think twice to jab and bite her sister's aggressor. A promising model maybe, would always pose her hands on her face!
Our Greatest Fortune
“Excuse me, are the names of those who qualified for the Summer Job posted? I asked him. “I don’t know, I still have my exam!” he annoyingly answered and turned his back to me.
I was left standing for seconds with clinched fist. How could this man so rude! Before my irritation turned to anger and my clinched fist landed on him I hurried to my feet off that study area.
Several years passed, I continued with my studies.
At third Year College, we became classmates in CS 161- one of the hardest subject for me but seems to be the easiest for him. Nothing unusual happened on those encounters except that one time, on my way to my seat he stopped me to see one of his programs, well, maybe to brag! I stopped and nod as an agreement to his perfectly running program. The days went on so fast and that before everyone knew it, the semester ended.
On the first semester on our fifth year in school, we became classmates again. On one of our groupings, one my group mates insisted that we chose him to be our leader. With a protest in my mind I agreed with the group and asked who is Roderick? Annie answered, he is absent right now, Don’t you know him?, He is very good in programming. He is also good in circuit designing. He has all the skill we need to pass on this subject! And so I said to myself, this man must be popular and intelligent. The next meeting, I’ve met him again.
The group decided to rent a place for us to meet every time we will have to put into reality the theories we’ve been discussing behind the creation of a SAP Microprocessor (Simple As Possible). As a working student I am almost always absent in our scheduled session since I have work to do. On one of our sessions where I was present I promised myself to really help. As punishment to my absence, I was tasked to assist him on the scheduled activity that night while the rest of the group went asleep. True to what I promised, I did all what he requested without complain. He asked me to hand him the LED, switch on or off the soldering iron, look for a resistor, gave him the soldering paste, etc…
As we continue with our SAP project he would request me to assist him whenever I was present. In return I would graciously assist him until we became close and comfortable with each other. At times we would took a break and talk about anything, my life, and his life and eventually agreed on certain things laughing then got back to work. We successfully finished our SAP project with flying colors.
On the last semester of our stay in school we ended on the same group despite disapproval of our special someone who noticed our closeness.
As graduation was fast approaching, the more we became close to each other. We were like magnets to each other trying to pull one another closer. Our days together were always full of happiness. But along with this happiness was the feeling of uncertainty in our hearts. Uncertainty on where this feeling brought us, of the thought that we are hurting people. People who we knew dearly loved us more than anything else in the world.
We gather our senses and we both decided to end our relationship- a relationship we both do not know what to call but sure it was pure and sincere. He decide to mend his relationship to a girl he had committed with. I myself broke off to the man I once loved.
But fate brought us together again. We were both accepted in an institution we applied before graduation. Our being together in work eased my pain of losing him. I continued to silently love him. One day another opportunity knocks his door. He passed the examination conducted by one of the government agencies and was ask to report on its headquarters for formal training. He went to the training while I continued to teach.
After a year of teaching I quit my job. I pursued my plan in going abroad. While my application abroad is on processed I decided to work to support the expenses of my application. Maybe it was destiny’s work, I happened to work an hour ride to where he was trained and indoctrinated to become an honorable military officer. I thought our romance would be bed of roses until he was given a month break to go home before going to Spain to pursue a month training.
But what pain can equal a pain of lowly heart left behind with the reason that what they have shared together was nothing but a coincidence. But a heart that truly loves is a forgiving heart.
I set him free. I prayed for his decisions. I prayed for myself. I prayed for wisdom for both of us. I prayed for strength.
And so when he texted me to fetch him in the airport from Spain, and in our embrace we both know that what happened to us were not coincidence at all but meant to be.
On April 3, 2002 we finally tied the knots!
The Author
I was born on May 1, 1977 at Tacurong City. I grew up in a small barrio faraway from school. I was six years old then when my interest in going to school was awakened. My parents were very hesitant to send me to school because that school was quite far from our house. As far as I can reminisce I was crying the whole night because I was so excited to go to school then.
Times flew fast. I graduated from high school and was so excited to pursue a business course in college to fulfill my dream of becoming a Certified Public Accountant. But I was so disappointed when my aunt told me to pursue education. I strongly disagreed but still she chose B.S. Computer Engineering for me. After graduation, I was hired as an Information Technology instructress at Systems Technology Institute (STI) where I handled programming subjects. After one school year, I resigned. I want to be in my field of specialization. I decided to apply in an industrial setting and was hired as a Production Engineer I. After eight months of working in the company I realized it was not a right job for me. I felt tired of doing the same thing everyday. There was no challenge at all.
I got married an am blessed with an adorable daughter and a good husband. My first pregnancy was a delicate one. I was advised to quit from work. After I gave birth I decided to go back to work and was luckily hired as Quality Engineer for one month and then I resigned, as a Production and Planning Control in another company. I don't find contentment with those jobs. Finally, I decided to go back to teaching. I was connected to Atheneum School for almost six years.
At present I am a full time mother of two kids and a successful Home based business owner.
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