I really didn’t know what I wanted to be when I was just a little kid. I remembered back then when I was still in preschool, we had this activity and our teacher told us to draw what we want to be when we grow up. I drew a sketch of a doctor. I can still see that image in my mind, I presented it to my class and I said: “I want to be a doctor so I could treat my lola’s broken leg, and I can treat dad’s arthritis too”. My lola was really happy to hear that very ambitious dream. She really was expecting me to become a doctor when I was still a kid. And I was really confident of becoming one. But there was another thing that I wanted to be.

I also wanted to be a pilot. I don’t really know how that thought went through my head but I really wanted to be one because it’s cool to fly around the world and you’ll get paid with money with 6figures. I told my mom about it and she told me that she will be very proud if I will be a pilot, and also she said that I should let her fly with me. But I guess I’m not going to be a pilot at all, pilot school is so expensive. And I have these homesick issues with my kitty. Ha-ha.

But today, I seriously want to be a computer specialist. I screwed up our PC many times when I was an elementary student. I even busted our hard drive and cd-rom drive when I was tweaking system properties and the like stuff in windows95/98. And I got inspired by my kuya Vicent, he’s a computer specialist and has a master’s degree in computer science. And his salary is pretty good too. I want to be like him, or even be better than him. And I’m enjoying this kind of stuff anyway and that’s why I chose this course. I want to go abroad and get rich with this career so I can help out my mom and dad with our financial problems.

Then I will build my own house - a big house right beside the beach and I’ll call it our home, jet-set’s home. We’ll live there with our kids and we’ll face our everyday problems together there. And we’ll live happily without problems there.