Wednesday, March 07, 2007 | 2:02 PM
Tonichi Lamsen is often mistaken as Japanese, because of his name, sometimes Korean, because of his looks. But this 22-year old Industrial Engineering student is 100% Filipino.
Up until the first quarter of 2006, he had been studying at the St. Louis University, at the beautiful summer capital of the Philippines, Baguio City. His mother, however, passed away the same year, and Ton finally decided to temporarily halt his studies, for him to help his father, and to recover over the grief of losing her.
He plans to enroll this June (that’s the beginning of a regular school year here in the Philippines) to continue his studies.
His short vacation has helped him a great deal. Right now, Ton is very enthusiastic about his new Sony Cybershot, and you’ll be seeing some of his work soon.
January of this year, Tonichi’s father remarried, and just a few weeks ago, Ton’s new stepmother returned to Canada, where his two stepsisters have migrated to. His stepmom has been working there for more than 5 years now. All these at hand, Ton’s petition papers will soon be processed.
While waiting for that time to come, Tonichi plans to spend the rest of his remaining months here in the Philippines by continuing his degree first. He also decided to work on this blog.
