Friday, March 9, 2007

…The Life I Have…

Tik-tak-tik-tak, the clock went on. “Dodong” was dripping wet with perspiration. Suddenly, the doctor said, “It’s a boy.” Dodong went into the delivery room, and there I was held upside down, crying and blood covered my whole body. “Rarry” was born!
Hi! I am Gerardo Ray P. Abatol. Born on September 7, 1993, at the Perpetual Succor Hospital, Tuesday-10 pm (specific gyud na ha!). I’m just 13, cute and my best asset………being………SMALL! Well many say I’m small but TERRIBLE!
If you want to know me better, specifically and properly, here’s my PROFILE!

Name: Gerardo Ray P. Abatol
N-Name: Rarry, Rarrybut, Butan, Lucio, Rarrypotter, Rarrylicious, Gerry (as in Jerry)
Address: St. Therese Drive, A.S Fortuna St., Banilad, Mandaue City
Contact#: 345-3439, 0916168700
E-mail Add:
rarriepotter@yahoo.com, rarrylicious_dep@yahoo.com
Country: Philippines!
Hometown: Cebu

…More/Other Information…
Favorites:
Food: Pizza
Color: Blue
Book: Harry Potter
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Movie: The Pink Panther
Director: Steven Spielberg
Singer: Leejee Moody Zamora
Actor: Daniel Radcliffe, AKO!
Actress: Leejee Moody Zamora
Band: MYMP
Word: Chuvalerns 2x!, r u dep?, ano ba?!
Motto: “A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength,
but by the strength of his heart” –Hercules (Disney)_

Crush: 125510 131515425

I am the 3rd child of Crisaldo C. Abatol, my father, and Cecilia M. Pangilinan-Abatol, my mother. I have 3 siblings and they are, Audrey Criscille P. Abatol, the eldest, Kenneth Gerrad P. Abatol, my elder brother, and Glycel Therese P. Abatol, my younger sister.
Let me tell you about the history of our names…..My sister’s 2nd name, Criscille, is the combination of Crisaldo, my father, and Cecille, my mother. The second name of my brother, Gerrad, is the combination of my grandfather’s name, Gerardo, and my father’s name, Conrad. My name comes from my grandfather, Gerardo E. Pangilinan. And my baby sister’s first name is the combination of my grandmother’s name, Glyceria, and my mother’s name Cecilia. And her second name comes from St. Therese w/c is our Patron Saint here in Banilad, Mandaue. What a HISTORY!

I would now like to tell you about our life then in the past.
My Father was previously a very successful businessman. So, we had a great life. Nice things and very great schools. We enrolled in school like Forum (which is a very expensive and good school), Maria Montessori Children’s House (MMCH) and many more. We could ask anything we wanted. We would go on outings anywhere. Go to Glico’s (twice a day!), go to Mindanao every summer (‘cause my grandmother lives there) and even go to Daan Bantayan Island wherein there’s a very big mansion of my Father’s best friend! We stayed there for a week!
My parents were hand-in-hand with the business. But suddenly, my Mother asked my Father to stop the business because she was so sick and tired of the people who were even the ones who get angry if my parents (specifically my mom) would collect money from these people’s “utangs”. Then and there, our whole world turned upside down. My Father got unemployed and we also got no money left at all.
Thanks to my grandfather (who was also running a chicken business) he let my Father help him at the “ihawan” or help him deliver the chickens to different stores/restaurants with a salary of Php300/day. Not a bad salary for a small family.
Then, the three of us, my brother and sister (at that time my baby sister wasn’t born yet) enrolled in this small but good school, LAHUG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!
I think it was a blessing in disguise for our my parents to let go of their successful business, because if not, I wouldn’t be able to meet my friends that led me to influential attitudes that improved my life. I wouldn’t have met my favorite teachers in LES that led me to the better of my grades and academic achievements. And I wouldn’t be able to study in U.P because by then we would still be “rich” and I wouldn’t pass the income category or whatsoever that involves money!
So, thank you Lord for this blessing and may you still shower these “unexpected” blessings to our family and to other families here in the world!

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