Let’s just call her ‘Nang Sonia”- not her real name.
i remembered her as an elegant and reserved lady who shared her passion for plants and flowers with my mother. My sister calls her “Auntie”, which I am not comfortable with because her family was not really a relative of ours, so I just call her “Nang” or “Nang Sonia”.
Her Husband is also [...]
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Nang Sonia’s fate
Posted in people on August 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Ms PL 2″
Posted in people on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ms. Private Lift 2. Yes, she’s a she. I was waiting for a Karwa to take me home one hot day when she stopped and asked a familiar question, “san ka kabayan? nagtatransport ako”. I was surprised to know that even ladies do transport services.
I got in and told her to take me Al Sadd. [...]
” Mr. PL 1″
Posted in people on July 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Stories of different persons I met in this country.
Lets just call him Mr. PL 1, short for Private lift 1- the first stranger I’ve come to know in Doha. I met him days after I arrived here. Since he’s a Kabayan, we trusted him and call everytime we needed a lift because he’s doing private transport. I hardly knew [...]
