I was born on the 4th day of January, 1987. When my mother gave birth to me, it was unexpected. My parents were in our province with my grandparents when I finally came out in my mother’s womb. My name Catherine was from the name of the nurse that has been so kind to my mother while she was giving birth to me. They say that I grew up acting like a boy. I have many friends and all of them are boys. I’m always outside our house playing with them on the street. I can remember that time that my father almost hit me with a chair because of playing patintero, but then nobody can stops me in that age. When I want it, I got it. Playing patintero, tumbang preso, agawan base, pog, teks, etc. are the things that I can still remember when I was 7 yrs old. I also remember that I am a lola’s girl. Everywhere and anything that my grandmother’s do, I’m always with her. There are also times that I don’t want to go to school for I want my grandmother be with me and follow her in our province. All of these memories are part of my childhood’s days. But anything can change, when I was in grade 5, I began to act like a woman until I have graduated in Grace Park Elementary School with honors.

        When I was in high school, a grown up teenager was seen in me. I began to have my priorities in life and established a good person in me. I went to Mapua Institute of Technology to give me an opportunity having a background for my course in college. I have met many friends, some are true and some are not. In this stage of my life, there were so many challenges that I have gone through. And these challenges were became a lesson to me as I grow more mature. I have been serious in getting good grades and study harder. I have no regrets in going to Mapua Institute of Technology, for this school brings out the best in me. The fact that my mother needs to go abroad just to help my father in our daily expenses especially in our education, also inspires me to study harder. Until an achievement finally came true, I was then a partial scholar of my school. I successfully graduated with honor and decided to continue my studies in Mapua Institute of Technology in Intramuros.

        I am very happy that now I still with my Alma Mater. I am now taking up Electronics and Communication Engineer in my third quarter. It takes extra effort to survive and pass my subjects and still have no regrets going in Mapua for college. I thought that I will graduate in Mapua Institute of Technology, but today even though it is hard to accept my dear alma mater was renamed after an insurance company called Malayan University. It was a great impact for the Mapuans, everybody were hurt about this fact. After 80 years that this school serving engineering people, its name was just renamed as simple as that without the approval of the students.