Chapter One

Ten years after I graduated from college I married MKT, my classmate and a Chinese businessman with a succesful gulayan business.  Then, we have three kids- 2 girls and 1 boy.  Our eldest is 6 years old named Salve.  She is a premature baby. Her speech is not yet full developed but she is a still a dariling little girl.  Sometimes, she helped me doing household chores.  At her age, she knows how to cook rice, sweep the floor, and wipe the furnitures and stuffs.  She proved to us that she can be a dependable child even though she is underdeveloped.  All things that she had done to me is her way of showing her love to me.  Of course, she has undergone in a speech therapy and we spent so much money to the therapist.  Even though she is a slow learner, she really work hard for improvement of herself.  When MKT is not very busy with his gulayan business, he teaches little Salve how to write.  Little Salve is now a Kinder Two this coming school year in her special school.  We tried our best to prepare her in the next phase.

Our second child is 5 years old named Little Darius.  He is not a premature baby unlike Little Salve.  He is a remarkable boy because at his age he can read fairy tale books on his own.  Sometimes he is very lazy in his studdies and he has low score in Chinese writing.  We have to pay for a tutor to help us in disciplining Darius in his studies.  Darius is a playful child. He is also a brave child who always defend his sisters from other naughty kids who make fun of them.

Our youngest child is 4 years old named Little Prea.  She is a very adorable little baby.  She really loves to play.  When I am tutoring her in some of her subjects in school, she taught that it is just a game.  She loves drawing and coloring. I bought some activity books for her age to develop her mental capabilities.  And, she really loves them. She is far different from Little Salve.  Sometimes, she is very stubborn, and she did not follow.  Same situation with MKT, she also did not follow the instructions of her daddy. And, MKT is disciplinarian.  He is the one who do the spanking and scolding when my children are doing something wrong.