HI Prof,
Resending again my defining moment since I sent it previously as an attachment.
My Defining Moments
There are numerous defining moments that I can consider in my life starting from my childhood. I was born from a poor family wherein my father has no permanent job and my mother did different type of odd jobs to earn for living. Aside from this, my father is the typical character from a drama series with vices like heavy smoker, heavy drinker, womanizer and gambler. I can still remember a day wherein my mother did not stop finding ways to provide us food for lunch until 3 pm. I can't remember how she made it but this experience stuck in my mind and I consider it as one of my defining moments at an early age bearing your hunger without any assurance when to satisfy your empty stomach. This pushed me to earn for a living at an early age to help my mother. That time, my father was taken out of the picture since he was not really responsible enough to earn for a living. I did selling vegetables in the market, going house to house to sell banana cue, camote cue and ice candy. During weekends, I worked in a restaurant owned by my aunt as dishwasher and doing the errands. On summer time, we are selling 'halo-halo' everyday which preoccupied my vacation days while seeing other children going to the beach and playing in the streets the whole day. My childhood days are different from the normal one but I can't say that I did not enjoy it. Yes, I enjoyed it simply because my objective then was to help my mother for an additional income in my own little way. This experience taught me to be stronger at an early age and that poverty is not an excuse not to pursue your visions in life.
