Met my wife when I was reviewing for the CPA exam sa PSBA. One morning, napadaan ako sa chapel and dun ko first nakita si wifey, every morning since then daan ako sa chapel para masilayan sya at makausap sandali. Then something happened in our province so I have no choice but to stop reviewing and go home to help out, di ako nakapag paalam sa kanya.

Came next review season, I enrolled in CPAR and to my surprise, nandun din sya, di pala sya nag exam and she wanted to review again para sure. I don’t know what got into me when I first saw her, bigla ko na lang sya niyakap. From then on inseparable na kami, broke na broke ako that time and what she does every morning is to buy fried maling and pandesal and share it with me kasi alam nya na limited lang money ko. Then during lunch time invite ko sya sa boarding house namin and I cook instant pancit canton for our lunch, ganun ang daily ritual namin.

With God’s blessing sabay kaming pumasa, but we have to wait 8 years bago kami magpakasal kasi I had to send my two younger sisters to college. Then finally last June 2005 we got married. Now may baby girl na kami. Everytime na may tampuhan kami, ipinapaalala ko sa kanya yung mga pandesal, maling at instant pancit canton ok na kami. And when I’m out of the country and I feel lonely to the point na almost matukso ako, I just remember our pandesal and pancit canton times, tangal ang pangungulila ko. Thanks maling and lucky me!