When I was still a kid, I’ve always dreamt of seeing myself in a magazine. Either as a model or as a writer. I never thought that a simple dream of mine would come true.

I grew up carrying a Candy magazine on my hand. Candy has a big part in my life, even Teentalk (its official message board). I appeared in the magazine for how many times like being the Friendliest Teentalker in the Teentalk Awards 2005, Most Popular (very unbelievable. Really) and Teentalk Role Model of the Year in the recent Teentalk Awards 2007. Of course, my username “x-y” only appeared in those issues. Then there’s this Certified Candy Girl thingy where in I appeared in page 24, I think, of October 2006 ish (as far as I can remember). And of course, those Candy shoutouts. These “appearances” weren’t really a big break for me.

Last August 2006, the Candy staff looked for some people who could write interesting stories for them. Since I love writing and sharing my own nursing experiences, I tried to send an email. Fortunately, I received a reply from them that they are interested in my stories. They chose this one subject that I indicated in the email and so I prepared the article and sent it to them right away with some pictures that I have in my files. I think it was October of the same year when they told me that they liked my article and would try to publish it in the magazine in Jan-Feb ish of the current year. I was really excited when I heard about that news! I can’t believe that they’re going to publish it. Moreover, I was also thrilled that I would able to share my experience to a lot of Candy girls through a magazine not just in my blog.

My article wasn’t published on the said month. I felt a little sadness but still hoped that in the next issues, I’ll see my article printed on a magazine. Then last April, Miss Angel of Candy sent me an email and told me that they are going to publish my article this July (yehey!) and the rest is history…

I already bought my own copy of the July ish and the first thing I looked for was my article. Haha. As soon as I got home, I showed it to my parents immediately. My mom told me that she’ll tell our relatives to grab a copy of Candy magazine. I can not imagine my lolo reading a Candy mag. =)) I knew and I felt that my parents were proud of me. It’s not that I saw my face on a magazine but I’ve done something to inspire and to send a message not just to Candy avid readers but also to people who would be able to read it. I am happy that in my own simple way I have shared the important lesson that I’ve learned when I was in college and that is to appreciate life and to respect mentally-ill patients.

1. Jhanna wrote:
   August 3rd, 2007 at 4:57 am

   aaww.. ngayon ko lang ito nalaman lola. Anyways, i would really like to read your article, but as you know I’m not at Pinas. haaiizz. Oh well. That’s pretty cool! I still wanna know what you wrote there. hehe~

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2. Liza wrote:
   August 17th, 2007 at 2:43 am

   nabasa ko itong article mo ate..:) galing galing..:)

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