Showing posts with label poor kid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poor kid. Show all posts

November 11, 2010

Toyo Ko



We've all encountered some kind of hardships and troubles in our lives...mine was something about money.

I remember when I was in grade school, when dad quit his job abroad and stayed with us since, mom forced herself to work to get something on our plate every day. Its a moment in our lives that will always stay with me. I cannot forget how tired my mom was like during those days...

She was a food vendor in front of the school gate (like isaw, hotdogs etc.)
She even put up a small eatery at a tricycle terminal with a capital borrowed from 5-6.
She wake up so early in the morning and sleep very late at night.

I usually gets very emotional when I think about it till now. My mom did everything she could for us to survive.

I remember having only one pair of shoe for school. It was very old and torn down. My mom cannot get me a new one and she would stitch it up and glued it together so that I could use it again. But I'll cry and asked her to get me a new one.

Yeah, I was a brat.

How many school outings and excursion did I missed? How many school projects did I struggle to pass due to lack of fundings?

Jollibee was just a dream for us during those days.
Our television set was terrible, you have to kick it first before I could watch my fave show.

I don't wanna go back there again. I just dont.
Now that I'm earning enough for myself here in Doha, I have to stop spending so much on unnecessary stuffs.

Its funny when I was working way back in our country, my ten thousand pesos salary was not enough, and now that I get paid many times over that, its still not enough!

Maybe its true, you get higher pay, you also get a higher lifestyle.

I've been a material "girl" for a while now. (Girl daw talaga e noh!LOL)

bakit kasi naimbento pa yang shopping!hahaha
More than a year na ko dito la pa ko ipon.

This have to stop.

Anywayz,

Today as I was getting a bottle of soy sauce from the grocery store,

I smiled and thought to myself:
I used to eat rice with just soy sauce in it for dinner...