Job ranting: What would you consider your biggest achievement in life.

My biggest achievement would be winning a writing contest for the first time. It was a simple high school on-the-spot writing contest. It doesn't have the glamor of the PALANCA or the ONGPIN award; but, that simple unknown and unglamorous award gave my life direction.

It was the first time I knew that I could write - that I could translate my ideas well with words.

It was the pivotal point in my life that made me decide that I want to become a writer.

Writers are among the most prolific, dynamic and inspiring people. They appreciate life in different points -of-view.

Writers are both intellectuals and artists. Their works give them different faces.

Ever since I learned that I could write, I knew that it was what I want to be doing five to ten years later. I knew that on my deathbed, I want to be holding a pen in my last feeble attempt to write my last words as my husband holds my hand firmly as if gripping remnants of my slowly fading life.

I won the award more than five years ago. I haven't stopped writing ever since. Every time I write, I get the same feeling as my first kiss. It's an unexplained sensation that I just can't get enough.

My award was third place for English short story. That award seems unimportant compared to my first USTETIKA  (A literary award for UST students, considered the PALANCA within UST) or my academic honors; but, it's value to me surpasses everything else that I have achieved and will achieve in life. It definitely is my biggest and most valuable achievement.