Jepoy!

Today is Jepoy birthday.  He is 12 years old. He just recently graduated from elementary school. He will be in high school this coming June 2011. Jepoy will be facing a new world as he faces a new season of his life. It is going to be “SEASON (n): Saying Bye-bye to Childhood and Hello to Adolescence”. 

Being a high school student was never easy. All kinds of pressure will greet ‘hello’ to you even if they don’t know you or you don’t know them. I have noticed that he didn’t show his last name on his Facebook. Maybe because he is ashame of it because it wasn’t that easy to pronounce. I think that he is afraid of being teased about it. Instead, he used his middle name as his last name- a sign of social pressure. He is afraid of being teased for that. (Unlike Monray, who proudly brags our last name. His friends even call him “TIW”).  

Jepoy is very playful. He loves to play games but hates it when he loses. Me and Monray bully him all the time especially when he gets upset when he is losing a game.  He also plays the ukulele but never shows to us. I think he’s shy to show it because his big brothers are really good at it. But I know Jepoy can become better than us in playing music instruments.

I am excited for Jepoy as he faces a new world. I wonder what he’ll be like when he goes to a high school. Is he going to be a rocker? an artist? A chickboy? A “good-grades” boy? A douchebag ? a cool kid? … no matter what he becomes, he will always be special to me. He will always be a cute little boy to me.

Today is his birthday and in feel so sad that I couldn’t be there…