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Heightened to train came after I was introduced to those already matured horses that I bought when I was residing in Biasong, Leyte. With an enormous tract of land on a horseback accompanied by my German Shepheard Dog called Shaquille, the three of us would venture into a variety of terrains, which were challenging especially during rainy days. Around that time also, I then became interested with English riding because I was enamored with that enormous discipline that goes with it, compared merely to a Western horse utility. Dressage became my preoccupation that not long after that. I started outfitting my horse and myself with English tack like an English saddle that I bought outside the country, a Bridle, Riding Boots and an English Helmet. But after my favorite cuckoo horse (Judah) unsaddled me several times for reason that he undoubtedly did not have the usual bit he wore to restrain his hardened mouth and coupled with a streamlined saddle to easily dismount me, I then was determined to start afresh with a foal. Not that I totally ignored my cuckoo horse from among the rest for I continued to mount him relentlessly with that English tack but without a realistic result, but the foal unknowingly got me into thinking of a new start.

Fast forward, twenty-two years later where I now reside in urban Cebu with fewer resources to even maintain an extravagant expense of just one horse, I nonetheless have the endowment of a substantial piece of land approximately three quarter of an acre that has an extra ordinary spot which is aesthetically quite withdrawn from an urban dwelling. Thus, I continued to live out that rural environment in a place that I call ‘my heartland homestead’. With this setting, I was also able to foster matured dogs in my early day here. They were handed over or given to me because its owner has space problems. Thus, I never was without a medium sized sport dog in the house. The hindsight however of having a significantly large place when I started was maintenance, for I was often out to work to raise my five children, and also did not have an extra pocket to hire someone nor find someone I could really trust. What it means is that its keepsake was very gradual and moderate on a specific area while living the rest of the space to the toll of nature to build up its own blueprint. I gave more time to focus on maintaining a center lawn and a secondary one near the entrance with manual labor due to the coarseness of the ground, but was quite content with it, as I treated them as my physical exercise. Therefore, what I have now is a gradual nineteen painless years in the making, with me and the interplay of nature itself on borders of my homestead. 
      

In addition, my fascination with Ham Radio pocket communication that we link to the Net back then, and this in connection to the digital world while already here in Cebu, not only induced me further to learn those digital hoops but also how to also monetize them. This was after I offered my services to a US company making Term Papers for graduating students, which included a painstaking effort to cultivate my writing ability, and then content marketing after I collaborated with the husband of my cousin. He was into a bio-solution product with impressive results, but it being a sunrise industry needed a lot of marketing persuasion.  

Now, after considering my entire background stories, it suddenly hit me that these seeming disconnect rest on a pregnant direction that I should not take aimlessly, for I now possess all the ingredients necessary to not only forge a plan without convincing a financial investor, and to supervise this already well established place that I have on my lap, as an enterprise.