So back to the boy’s story, while he was studying at the Adventist school in Quezon City, his grandparents hired workers in constructing their house in Caloocan. By the time he finished grade 3, their house was almost finished thus his mom decided to look for a school near their house there and with the help from a friend; she found out that there was an Adventist school near their vicinity.

His mom enrolled him at that Adventist school but he didn’t like the idea for he should wake up earlier than before because he’s going to travel that far just to attend school. His grandma was the one who vouches him to school everyday. When the school started, he felt lonely because he couldn’t befriend much of the students there. There was even this annoying female seat mate of his who teases and harasses him frequently but he doesn’t tell that to his teacher or even to his parent. Just recently, he heard that this female classmate of his is now pregnant at the age of 15. The boy somehow felt happy for her current situation. The compensation of hurting me, he said to himself.

By the end of the year, their house was now complete and his mom decided to there just by themselves. Her parents were left in Manila to take care of their sari-sari store while the boy had a hard time coping with their new lifestyle. Everyday, he walks to school while his mom goes to work and arrives up late for dinner in the evening. He got used at being alone waiting for his mom every night.

When summer came, his mom decided to live in Manila again, exchanging houses with her parents. By that time, the boy’s addiction to computers grew more. He was playing Pokemon gameboy advance games using an emulator for he doesn’t have the real thing. The one who pays for his computer bills was his godfather who was always there; buying everything the boy wanted thus making him a spoiled brat.

After summer ended, his mom decided to enroll him again for grade 5 at the Adventist school in Caloocan where the boy had to travel again from Manila just to attend school. One time, when the boy was about to enter the computer room, his classmate slammed the door which injured half of the boy’s body. This traumatized him and after attending school for some days, the boy didn’t go back to that damn school and decided to stop.

What did he do afterwards? He tried attending a public school in Manila but quited it for he felt that the lessons there are too easy but still, he enjoyed it for quite some time because the students there, even though they are less fortunate that him, have a good attitude rather than the ones who are in a private school.

. . .So long and goodnight, so long and goodnight.

Back then, he hadn’t made that much of friends. He was living at the busy streets of Sampaloc, Manila and they have a small sari-sari store but there house were just a few blocks away from the squatters’ area. His grandpa and grandma were very protective over this child because he was their only grandson. Yup, he was an only child and was often left together with his grandparents for his mother goes to work. As for his dad, he has never heard of him for he haven’t met him since was a baby.

Since his family has a definite source of income, they enrolled him at the University of Santo Tomas. He doesn’t like that university for a lot of his classmates often bully him and even some of the teachers tease him. From kinder up to grade 2, he endured every single words or negative things that were thrown to him thus becoming a secretive person up until now. He was transferred to another school by his mom when she heard the terrible things that his classmates and some teachers done to him from his neighbor classmate.

He didn’t like the idea of his mom transferring him to an Adventist school in Quezon City because their school curriculum was very long. He had to wake up by six in the morning and wait for his grandpa to vouch him up until five in the afternoon. Well, he was also thankful in some way that his mom transferred him to another school for he felt that his hidden intelligence were revealed to him and his new classmates were easy to bond with.

Also, it was in that school where he started to go to church again (for it was just above their classrooms). Computer games were popular during his days like Super Marrio, Counter Strike, Diablo, and Red Alert. Among all the persons to whom he is very grateful with, it is his cousin, Mifflin who introduced him to the use of internet and created his very own e-mail account. Without her, maybe he wouldn’t be in front of the monitor right now, typing his own autobiography.

Yes, everything that I wrote here happened in real life but these are just fragments, memories that I still remember during the early stages of my life. It’s good to reminiscence every once in a while but feeling those painful memories? I don’t know because I keep on enduring them all this time. Maybe my heart got used to it and told my brain to stop sending axons to command my eyes to cry.