Neri: Keeping busy nowadays

Betsy Bowler Chiongbian
Betsy Bowler Chiongbian

AT THIS time when we are on enhanced community quarantine, which means we can’t get out of the house, we are faced with the dilemma of what to do to keep from boredom and to somehow be productive.

Betsy Bowler Chiongbian is a stay at home wife/mother/grandmother who balances her time between home chores and civic/church activities. She spends time organizing and teaching catechism classes in her barangay. She is also involved in church groups and in the preparation for next year’s celebration of 500 Years of Christianity. These days when everything is at a standstill, she keeps busy stringing together rosary beads for the catechists to give away. She is also catching up on her reading and still finds time to help in the homeowners administration office of Garden Ridge because the staff are on leave.

A320 Captain James Kevin Go of Cebu Pacific is all of a sudden “stranded home.” Used to flying around the Philippine skies, he finds himself confined to the house and garden but he says he is enjoying the “down time” bonding with wife Joy and only child Cheska. What keeps him occupied is assembling model planes, a longtime hobby he can finally concentrate on. Well, he adds that he now has time to listen to the tweeting birds in the garden while hanging out with the two women in his life.

Joan Young Tiu is a travel executive who is always on the go. It’s difficult to keep track of her whereabouts because she is always traveling. Nowadays when she has to stay put, she is channeling her energy to the production of PPE (personal protective equipment) for the frontliners in this fight against Covid-19 with the help of relatives Jaja Rama, Laurice Chiongbian and friends Lot Lot Neri, Vivien Luzuriaga and Corito Yu. They have delivered PPE sets to hospitals and local government units, thanks to generous donors. Joan is happily surrounded by family and plays board games with them. She believes that there’s no time to be bored if you don’t allow yourself to be.

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