Winter Light

That I have a lot of connect-the-dots-like moles on my face. It’s the most obvious thing about me I guess. One look at me and hey, moles!

On occassions where I got to spend enough time with other people for them to notice the less obvious things about me, (WARNING: Possible bragging ahead.) more than once it was mentioned that I have long slim fingers that look nice and that I have nice penmanship. These complements never fail to make me smile in a why, thank you sort of way.

Here in the US, some people have told me too that I can speak English well, which is quite often a surprise for them since they still have no idea how common the English language is in the Philippines. I’m always a bit saddened by this. If only they know how often people in the Philippines use English and how good most Filipinos are in speaking and writing in it. I always tell them the same thing: that Filipinos use English in school from kindergarten to college, watch English movies and TV shows, read English books and listen to English music, aside from the local Tagalog ones. I’ve had the same reaction from people a number of times and I’ve given the same answer repeatedly. I know there will be more similar situations ahead. Oh well. At least there’s an additional person who knows this thing about Filipinos every time. One informed person at a time.