MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Have you ever seen how a candle is lit? That from a small spark can make the brightest flame in the dark, and as it burns slowly through time it usually leaves its mark. Just as that flame on a candle left its mark, I too strive to leave my mark.

My small flame began when the clock struck exactly at 7:30 _PM on the 14^th, 2005 in San Mateo, Isabela. After my baptism I was told that I were immediately taken to where the hustle and bustle of high energy. Most of my infant years I was in Manila, but we did usually/often come to the province and stayed as much as we could.

Growing up I really felt loved but life wouldn't **stand** still, it would take a whole month of planning before all of us can manage to be together for a single meal, given the distance to take.

My early school years was in Manila, however I was told that they came to realize that a child should be able to roam free and be a child, so I was moved back into San Mateo. Honestly back then school was really not my priority, because my family did lack into the term "Education", however as time passed by I came to love it, I found something into this concept that I really enjoy going to school and learning. I just remembered a funny story, and a sudden hint is why I really am fond of cows. It was a morning recess and the back gate of our school is connected to the Oval ground which is quadruple the size of our school which is usually used as a grazing field where the cows eat grass for free. I wandered into the open field when I saw countless of humongous cows, and all that I remember from that was I came home with a cow. I was a pretty hard-headed child I begged, literally to own that very same cow and maybe I would still be with Joy (the cow) even up until now but life had different story in mind. As years grew, so did I. I found friendships that lasts up even up **’til** this day.

It’s true what they say you’ll "learn" through time, in my junior high school years I learned quite a lot, both good and bad things. In high school I learned to do fashion, and I discovered that I really love doing creatives, may it be in dancing, singing (I admit, I do not please the note but regardless I love songs/music), drawing, coloring, and designing - this is where I found my interest in fashion, in runway and ultimately becoming an engaged person in designing. At this time, I was also being honed on my culture, and literary of the Arts side. I came to love books, especially those of history, of Charles Darwin, the theories and trinkets of Shakespeare, I loved this phase.

Honestly, I grew quite a lot on my junior years, inasmuch because of the countless, ongoing and multifaceted pieces of work everyday was a journey to something. By the time I was at grade 10, I have already learned almost half of what I know and can do now. January 10, 2020, I can still vividly remember when my sister and her children was abandoned by her ungrateful husband, she was devastated, we were all devastated. In hopes of leaving that chapter she chose to come back into the place of opportunity in Manila. She and her children were bound to go in, in my good conscience (but I didn’t want her to be all alone) so we went back into Manila.

Amidst the COVID-19 PANDEMIC, it was restless and a bit taken aback of what has been happening at those times. During those struggling times, we were once again, called to come home, and from cycle and some odd bit times yet another painful phase where we lost our second mother, the person who took care of us [sister and I] when our parents was busy, she was mostly the person we’ve been with, then came after our mother, who was threatened and had one of the most severe type of COVID. It was those grueling months when I saw at first hand the boundary between life **&** death; it was heart-shattering. At those moments, all that I can do was to pray, not knowing what tomorrow may bring. Alas, by my same birthdate of year 2023, our mother was released after battling COVID-19, finally got to be discharged, it was like prayers answered. I was the happiest.