Why a life without TEARDROPS is meaningless.

Life is unfair, lack in justice, and people are evil. My childhood stories have full of tears. I was raise in the farm, no TV, no electricity, no means of transportation and lack of money. I used to walk 3 km every morning for school and another 3 km going home every afternoon with a broken pair of slippers for 10 years. Imagine a six year old kid is walking alone down the street for school everyday.

These situation was increasingly aggravated when my mom got an operation of her appendicitis. At age of 10, I used to do all the laundry, and all the kitchen chore.

It won't stop there, during sundays and saturday, during the instead of playing around with other kids, I go out to the farm and help my parent's in cultivating. We planted rice, vegetables, raised animals (such as cow, carabao, goat, sheep, chicken) and variety of fish.

During the night time, a blurry kerosene lamp lit the room as I read books and doing my homework. This scene continues until my 2nd year in high school. In my 3rd year, electricity has introduced to our community. It was a game changer, life become more lively, there was an entertainment system, and studying is not the same.

College days, is more complicated as I expected. During this time I need to relocate myself far from home. Rent a room and look for part time job to sustain my needs in the college. Tuition fee's is not a problem during my college day's. I am a few lucky student who awarded a full scholarship from the local government. Besides, I also work as student assistant in the University I am into plus a service screw in the fast food. Schedule are tight, life is hard.

All these teardrops and all these hardship humble me. All I can say now is, those sad stories in the past are blessing in disguised. With those hardship in life, God granted me a gift afterwards. I graduated computer engineering in 2004, master degree in 2008. Currently, I work full time as system administrator.