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When I was 6 or 7 years old, my teacher and classmates in nursery school applaud my craft on drawing things. My teacher drew a stick-look-alike-lion on the board and told us, “This is the lion…” But, I don’t see any??? So, while my other classmates, including my seatmate, were copying exactly the stick-look-alike-lion, I drew it differently. PASAWAY TALAGA!!! I drew a close-to-reality-lion (ang yabang)! What I mean is, not a stick-look-alike-lion!!! So, my teacher saw my drawing and she was amazed and told me to draw the same lion on the board. Then she gave me lots of angel-marked-reward all over my arms. (TRIVIA: Because children love visual reward, stamp with VERY GOOD written on it is encouraged practice on some nursery schools). I boasted myself after drawing the lion and from that very moment, I know, I will be an artist. That was year 1989.
