Aggie Wants to Know! # 4

For this week’s AWTK:

Anyway, for this week, I want to SEE you. Post your most recent pictures. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t look great. I want to see more than what is a normal avatar. Take note that it needs to be RECENT. Can you believe I can use an avatar dated 2 years ago? Time for things to change

Secondly, I want to KNOW you. Just YOU. Sans kids, the husband, just YOU. I have a lot of ME tags in my blog – you can use that. What do I want to read: You – Now. It can be as simple as “I love Coke.” or as complex as “I am the crossroads of my life.”

Here is mine:

I am Abie, or Joy or Abeng. My family and friends at home call me Joy. I am the eldest of three kids and I am the first apo and niece in the family. Maybe that is the reason why they say I was a spoiled brat when I was a kid. They even gave me a pet name of “toyo” because as the name implies, I always throw “toyo” (tantrums) when I did not get what I want. I am not one of the best students when I was in elementary. I even got failing marks as I was so lazy to study. But things turned 360 degrees when I entered High School as I became so obsessed with always getting a high mark and it continued until college.

I was able to get a job as soon as I graduated from college. I worked as a Network Engineer for Smart Communications for a year. Then I got hired as a Network Specialist at DLSU-CSB. During this time, my dad’s business went bankrupt and so being the eldest, I took the responsibility of helping my parents raise my siblings. Maybe, this is one of the ways I was able to outgrew my bratinela attitude. I think I became more responsible and I was able to help my parents as I sent my two siblings to school.

I am scared of almost anything – heights, insects, the future, ghosts. Name it and I bet I am scared of it. I love to travel. If I am rich, I would stop working and I will just travel to my hearts delight (just like what Becky Bloomwood did when she married Luke). My dream destination – Paris and Africa. I am a shopaholic but I can say that I know when to stop when I already reached my limit. I am talkative and I think I can easily make a conversation even to a stranger. LOL. I have lots of friends. I love blogging and online shopping. I love the color purple.

I got married at age 27 to Howell who is my schoolmate (but I had a few boyfriends and heartbreaks before I finally found my destiny). I got pregnant as soon as I got married. I now have a beautiful daughter (syempre love your own) who will be turning three this November.

I love my family, my husband and my daughter. I love my life and there is truly nothing more I could ever ask for.