one heartfelt memory...the heart shaped background was built by my dearly departed dad and company who always reminds me then to smile in spite of life's hardships. we are poor so i worried about how could i ever go to college but God answered and sent us my virgin mary look alike rich spanish benefactor who sent me to UST to study nursing, a miracle in my life, the first of several. second is me living and working in the most powerful and richest country in the world, the U.S.A. and so on and on. miracles come in small and big packages. the third is when my life was spared in an auto accident...
it was a red cross contest for our fiesta celebration. the one who could raise the most funds will be king and queen and the funds will be used to build our school gate. so we won the honor to build the gate, named percy-aida gate as it stands today. i had renovated it once already and it's time again to do it one more time. when our barrio chapel's roof was blown away by a typhoon about 2 years ago, i spent 30 grand in pesos to have the roof replaced. it is not much money but to be of help to your beloved community meant so much to me. i wish i could do more.
and a little disturbing trivia. i graduated valedictorian and the second, her family built on the sides or corner a bigger but cracking gate, according to my brother and our gate is very strongly built only smaller but cute and i designed it...(^&*)... so what is that all about... just to settle a score? what score? in HS, i graduated top in that honor roll and she is not even in the honor roll so... what people do to irritate you, really. they could not accept the reality of who is smarter, laughs. oh well...
they even have the nerve to ask me if our gate could be rebuilt and transferred on the sides aka on the corner and they will be in the middle, the main gate. what? that's an insult. whatever they are planning to build i can also do it... plus in a much more better, nicer and more durable way. now let's turn the table, if they are the one in my shoes will they give consent to this outrageous plan. really now let's get real here. who is out of their mind to make a request of such unsavory proportion. maybe the dumb ;) ...sorry God, but i am just truly disgusted. but such is life. there are people like these who exist in our world. where in our planet can you see 2 school front gates in this universe? in my beloved place in pinas because there is a dark reason for it. now you know ;)... so i guess, the competition will have to go on and is now focused on gates. God, please...
