Most kids like to eat spaghetti, ice cream, candies, and mostly sweet food. I was surprised to see josh josh today. I served fresh mustard leaves, dadee and I dip it in vinegar with chopped garlic. My son joined in and to my amazement asked for more. This was not the first time my little boy ate unusual food he particularly like radish salad with tomatoes. This started when he was stating to have his first teeth. I gave him fresh cut cucumbers to give relief to his aching gums to my surprise he really liked it. Even now he loves cucumbers plus take note, spices like ginger, garlic and onions although he dislikes black pepper but adores spicy food even though he drinks a lot of water after every mouthful of food.
I grew up all over Luzon because of the nature of my father’s work. I can remember Dagupan City, it has helped a lot in shaping my childhood, we stayed there for about 5 years. Then in one of the islands in Hundred Islands, I couldn’t remember how long. Then there was Los BaƱos Laguna, 7 colorful years there. And of course Mandaluyong City. Then from Luzon I came to Cotabato City where I experienced my first “culture shock”. But I later learned to love the people and the place and stayed there for two years. Now I’m here in General Santos City (the Pacquiao town) where I met my destined lifetime partner who is a Visayan who could speak Tagalog, English, and some Ilonggdo.
My father is Ilocano, my mother Ilonga, but I grew up speaking Tagalog because that was what my family use at home. I have a 3 year old gwapong long haired son named Joshua Daniel and for now my world and joy is almost inside my family lang, wife and mother muna. I studied in UPLB (Communication Arts Major in Theater Arts for Children) and Mass Communication at Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Colleges where I met my husband. He was teaching there part-time and I was in one of his Essay Writing classes. He encourages me to write and to blog. He majored in English but is so enamored with the language of computers. He takes care of the technical side of this blog and as much as possible does not get his hands wet with painting my emotions in my posts.
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