I was born on 7:30am of Thursday, March the 6th to a journalist father and a therapist mother.

There were bombings on Times Square and Baghdad on the day I was born.

On March 6, Albert Einstein College of Medicine researchers had inserted two genes into immune cells that made them destroy cells infected with HIV. The genes were taken from elite controllers, according to EurekAlert. Astronomers at the Large Binocular Telescope released the first images captured using both mirrors also on March 6. It is now the world's most powerful optical telescope and has 10 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope, reported the BBC.

In my hometown, typhoid fever was everywhere. I was spared. In 2009, typhoon Ondoy or Ketsana also spared me. I was in the very eye of the storm (Marikina), but on a much higher level. Death and destruction were around me. God is great.

Raya School of Quezon City was the first school that assessed me to be ready for preschool when I was 3.

I was 4 when I first went to a kindergarten school, Child Development Laboratory (CDL) of the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Banos. CDL awarded me with "Best in Building Blocks."

I went to preschool at 5, GF Tots and Kids Care Center, whose managing teacher-lola (grandmother) was a founding faculty of CDL in the 1960s. GF cited me with "Most Observant" award which assessed me to be a preschooler who is "most interested in the natural environment and asks questions on what he sees."

My first grade school was the Maquiling School.

Nuestra Senora de Aranzazu Parochial School was my second and third grades school.

I have a long story to tell.