about

I come from the Philippines, in a small city called Ozamiz. Where practically everybody knows anybody. And where there isn’t much to explore. So it seems.

Life WAS a boring routine which started with mustering the will to get out of bed for the daily grind, and then counting the long hours until workday’s end, so I can be home.

Don’t get me wrong. I love what I do. I have a private practice and I teach Dentistry. My work allows me to experience what matter most to me - the constant opportunity to learn and share what I know, to be a medium for healing, without having to be too far away from home- to experience the people around me, who matter most to me, from whom I draw much of what I am.

But I also find comfort and solace from things which leave me to myself and not worry about making errors. Like going online, because it is a way cheaper alternative to travel. And reading the paperback editions of the classics my father brought from a car-boot sale in England. Or listening to my outdated collection of music, mostly given, or hand-me-downs, or downloaded by a devoted friend. Or working out at the local gym, because it relieves me of stress and is a change from my sedentary groove. Or see what Gale Gand is whipping up in her Lifestyle channel show, and dream about doing these in the kitchen myself. I can’t cook, but I do bake. Usually on weekends when I’m most relaxed, and when the urge is strong enough. Otherwise, I sleep.

I do go out occasionally, when friends invite, to the simple pleasures of barhopping (there’s at least two I am most comfortable going to), the movies (only three, but relatively up-to-date), coffee(just for the conversation. I make it better at home). I do love their company and enjoy making new ones. My circumstances have given me the chance to see places as well.

My social life, if there is and if you can call it that, has expanded to people I have known through the internet. People who have introduced me to a plethora of things to try, or at least consider doing. Or going to. Even within the bounds of this crammed city I’m in. Life has changed from it, as has my way of seeing people and things around me, and of myself.

WELCOME to my world.