"Why are you so Quiet?"
I am used to receiving questions as to why I am so quiet and recently I just thought of it. I have this routine in which early in the morning I roam around the house and yell random things in the rooms of my siblings just to wake them up and one time while I was doing that, my little sister yelled “nag ngalawngaw ka!” and that’s how I realized I am not really that quiet. I grew up (well not literally) in La Trinidad wherein we used to catch “small fishes” in the canal and get home with our dirty clothes while our mother would be waiting outside our home holding the stick broom ready to whip our butts. This was when I am in grade school, my mom likes us to join different activities, and you can see that I am very happy in this picture (LOL). I remember every time there was a parade, my face would be full of foundation and my lips and cheeks wou...