One day upon arriving home, I found three young men talking with my mother. I soon learned that they wanted to board with us. My mother accepted them because they were all employed and had better chances of being good payers. She told them to come back three days later as we had to look […]

III.The following days were blank ones for me. I even became lax in my studies as all sorts of things came into my mind. First it was Vestre then Siniong. And added to this was our very serious financial condition. I contemplated to tell my mother about Siniong’s revelation of his love but I was […]

We went back to Bayombong just in time for me to enroll for the next school year. We had new classmates and new teachers. Among my teachers was Miss Natividad Inocentes who was our Home Economics and English Instructor. We struck such a nice friendship with one another and when later that year she was […]

“Nanay”By Patricia Enrile Sibayan “Of all the music that reached farthest into Heaven,It is the beating of a loving heart.”– Jose B. Sibayan Pat, my lovely darling, sublimated her personal ambitions into the caring of her family. She sacrificed her life for the love of her children and her husband. “Nanay” is truly a saint!– […]