True Happiness

     As I browse on my account in the famous social site Facebook, I have happen upon on a fan page and little did I know, despite of the fact that it's already past midnight, serendipity made me aware of this great man who have made me smile for his enormous LOVE for my dearest country. He made me realize that nothing can beats TRUE HAPPINESS. That no matter what happen, pursue your dreams despite all the odds that may hinder you from reaching it, nothing will be impossible if only just determination with a pure heart within YOU will reign, kitto (surely), the happiness you greatly desire will be granted.

David's photo compilation of his every sojourn in different 

places in the Philippines with LOVE.

     Coconuter as he refer himself, David Eric Poarch originally rooted from the land of Subic, Zambales, where he had spent 7 years before entirely going abroad. The Subic Naval Base is the turning point of his parents for it is where their crossroads met.  His mother, Marilyn Marang, who is a Filipino teacher and his father, Robert Poarch, an american navy man who happened to be transferred from Subic to Texas in 1993. 

       This occurrence made David's family, including him, oblige to leave Philippines and in which also, brought a momentous change in his life. For more than 13 years since they have migrated to Texas, he deeply yearns for his beloved Philippines,  where he grew up and earned lots of wonderful memories. Even from the start, David definitely wanted to stay on his hometown. He find it hard to fit in and adapt the many changes in his newly-known surrounding, and which it made him feel really stress. He was even ask by a classmate, "What are you?". Every tease he gets contributed to his becoming of unsociable and loner person.  But in spite of these, he found the strength to say that he has a descent of half-Filipino and half American. And through passing time, regardless of all the struggles he have met, he did manage to cope all of these, he even excelled in his academics and became more competitive than ever which made him successful. From the Pearland High School, he graduated as a valedictorian and gained a full scholarship in Ivy League Rice University, pursuing the course in electrical and computer engineering that paid-off all his every effort and sweat he made through the years. He is certainly not just your typical 20-year old Fil-am boy you would know. He is a true man with not only brains but with also a great humble heart.

 David doing his Catharsis high school project in 
their Psychology class.

*I heard someone yelled here SEXY! Yah~ Oh well, sure, he is!!*

     In the end, however, after schooling in Ivy League for 2 years, he went back home to his motherland. Withstanding just having $200 on his pocket, he managed to live alone in a house vacated by his maternal grandmother who also migrated in the States. And as often as not, he goes trekking for him to reabsorb the Philippine culture he had missed. Plowing the fields would not definitely be a major concern for him because he really enjoys doing such work.


     In due course, David will be a regular contributor of a magazine which is dedicated to OFWs based in Dubai so-called as Ilustrado and which said to be launching soon.

        Also, for you to get more informations about him, try to follow the Coconuter's blog: coconuter.blogspot.com.

SOURCE: Inquirer mobile