Hi, I am pleased to meet each creative mind, generous heart, and beautiful soul here. I am RoseAlign, 26, from the rocky mountain of the northern part of the oldest city of the Philippines. I am recently connected with the Department of Education, and I have been religiously working my best to catch my students' attention so they can learn. Though they have lots of imperfections and a lot of differentiated instruction to be made, yet, I still love to teach them and transform their lives by unleashing the great perspective within them.
This photo was taken in Basilica Sto Niño De Cebu after thanking God for helping me strive and survive the challenges of the recent school year.
I have been teaching public school students for four years now and I cannot contain the happiness I have felt, and the blessings I have gained personally, socially, and professionally. I have the chance to buy my own needs and cravings at times, just sometimes, because our "wants" eventually to waste our pockets. Socially, specifically to my family, I can provide rice, viand, and drinks they need and can even extend to serve violet, yellow, or even a combo of colors for them to enjoy. Professionally, I have grown skillfully; got to re-echo a seminar in a crowd of a hundred plus (an experience that unlocked the influential voice in me) which I thought beforehand was impossible to happen in my life. But I have always wished to become one though. Indeed, we can only cross the river when we get there.
This photo was all about the orientation of students about the National Book Week Activity in school.
Things that keep my eye on them include cooking, planting, watching movies or drama series, traveling, investing, and dreaming.
Cooking interests me because my siblings and parents want me to do so; they have trusted my skills and my taste. But sometimes, my taste differed according to my mood. One time, I was too busy at work and got home with no cooked viand. So, I immediately got the pan and cooked my favorite pancit canton. Unfortunately, out of anger and hunger, I spooned salt into the boiling water as if I were making the noodles soup. When everybody asked what the viand was and how it tasted, I told them the truth and my father put his spoon down, got the dried fish, and grilled it. What a reaction.
The piggyhead lechon was handfully marinated by our eldest on the left and patiently rolled on the bamboo stick by me, my nephew in the center, and my older brother on the right.
Planting also captivates my attention whenever I feel stressed and declined by my elders what I want. One time, when I was in college, I was invited by my friends to ride various Carnival fiesta rides in Bogo City. I have never tried doing so, and I wanted to try them with friends because I imagined how fun it would be as what I have seen those moments on TV or any blue screens, and in magazines. But both my older sister and mother stopped me from heading to Bogo due to some reasons: risky ride, no family visibly beside, waste of money, and many more raggy words depriving my inner child’s love of unlocking something new myself. And guess what, after hearing those smoky words, I got the digging bar and went straight to the banana farm to dig up the banana pups. I got three pups and planted them in front of our house. That moment was the day my mind could not forget because that was the premiere winning decision I have ever made after being hurt, which has inspired me until now. After all, at least I have made a productive decision behind my frustrated heart. It just means that my heart was wounded but my mind remains unweakened.
The “Gmelina Arborea” locally known as gemelina in the picture has already grown. I planted these in mid-2019 when I went home from city work.
Recently, I have decided to splash the “River Tamarind” locally known ipil-ipil seeds in the hill for them to divide more since the lot has already been barren for corn to grow productively.
Moreover, in rainy seasons and evening moments, I found myself healed from stress from watching movies or GMA TV drama series. As of this year, I was really into Abot-Kamay na Pangarap and Black Rider. These two telenovelas captivated my serotonin because they tackled life lessons that I can learn about friendship, family, opposite-sex relationships, societal norms and issues, and many more. I have also started to like “Expecially For You” -a noontime show on the same channel I have grown up with since TV came home from my uncle. Guess why? Because that is how the light of the family-my precious mother passionately loved, love and will always love to press on the remote, which seemed to be like no other number she could see on it. And yeah, perhaps, I have been so loyal and faithful with this channel, anyway.
Getting in contact with nature apart from the screen of work is the most satisfying feeling I can always get every time I stroll down with my niece and nephew in the hills near home or get to step another city or region away from the north. The most unforgettable flight I have ever experienced was witnessing Bulkang Taal in Tagaytay. It was the most unbelievable trip I have made in my whole life so far. I will tell you more about it in my next blog.
This is the mesmerizing view from our home- a place where I used to get some fodders for the cows and goats to eat. Recently, a resting place and a place to exhale the bad vibes and inhale the fresh breeze of trees.
This photo summarizes our short vacation in Tagaytay during the wedding ceremony of my elder brother.
Apart from those money-needing interests and entertainment, I also have a passion for investing in something worthwhile with my effort and money. Recently, I have started to raise a sow and monthly installed a lot. Aside from family’s environmental influence, these decisions have been made because I realized how difficult it is when a one-legged veteran loses his stand. Everything will abruptly fall apart; nothing will be left on hand; families left rooting for your rice and viand will also eventually seek them from the ground or somewhere else- somewhere that can make our tears fall. So, going into financial business, or any other worthwhile business cannot just benefit us personally in standing still but also can get us anywhere.
These pictures show that my eyes wanted to sleep more because the piglets needed two more bright-sight days to be attended to for them to be independent.
Nonetheless, I still have more passion to discover sections in singing, dancing, hosting, and research. I am still hopeful to become skillful in those areas, but time and self just denied though, lol. Kidding aside, I have already tried these things, but the reality is that what I have consistently made are eating and sleeping only due to stress and the hustle and bustle of work. Enumerated passions have been just a dream, but we are all free of dreaming. We will never know how our wheels roll today and when will they stop tomorrow. Yet, all dreams will never come true if we will only stop in there. Plan-start and act-start will always beget results and I am still in an unfinished foundation.
And how did I know about this incredible blogging spot? My brother’s classmate who graduated from the same school as mine in high school and college, Mam N. Malinao posted her marvelous experience on the platform, and it captured my interest. She invited me to a formal orientation last year, but I failed to attend due to personal reasons. She has also given me a preview of what Hive is all about. Finally, this June 2024, Mam Malinao’s friend @callmesmile conducted a virtual orientation among newbies and it truly favored my convenience. She discussed Hive thoroughly, from its nature and characteristics to policies and procedures. She has also engaged in a friendly conversation among newbies and answered the questions in clear detail.
This is the Hive virtual room of aspiring writers I attended a week ago, with the trainer @callmesmile.
In conclusion, I would love to be able to interact with the soul of writers here across regions and I would love to share with you as well my journey about life, how to taste life, how life sees me, and how I hear life. That would be all for now. Thank you for taking the time to read this life. I hope all is well with you.