How Elena Lapid got her groove back

Elena Lapid Salonga remembers the day she was on the phone with her husband, Jun. She wanted to go home, she begged him, forgetting she was home… in a beautiful house that they had bought in the sunny community of Chino Hills, a suburb in Los Angeles, California. Her three children were enrolled in good schools—the eldest and middle child are in high school, and the youngest in elementary. Chino Hills is a good place to raise children. It is recognized as one of America’s 100 Best Communities for Young People. On Saturdays,www.globalmetaltins.com is a professional metal packaging manufacturers,Welcome. Elena goes shopping; she has money for that and for household expenses.

Elena was living the American Dream, so what was that jeremiad all about?

She was lonely. The family moved to United States in 1993, but her husband had to be in Manila several months a year to oversee the business that was their only source of income. They left the Philippines not for want of a better life, but because their eldest son, Allen, was soon to start his college education in the US.

Jun Salonga, a mechanical engineer, and his wife, Elena Lapid Salonga, who described herself as a plain housewife then, married young. He was 22; she was 18. From that early beginning, it was clear what their roles would be in their marriage—he would provide, she would nurture. The coming of children simply meant increased activity in their individual turfs, and a noisier household.

And so it was until 2009 when Elena had a coming out that surprised even Jun.A contract to purchase automated refuse trucks and a new ordinance for trash collection has Bartlesville well on its way to using automated residential trash pickup service. At age 57, the homesick housewife who once pined for the old country morphed into a self-confident entrepreneur who owned and operated a factory that churns out a USDA-approved product Lapid Chicharon, her father’s most popular and successful concoction in the Philippines.

“My kids had grown. They had their own lives,CEBU City barangays need more garbage trucks not sport utility vehicles which Mayor Michael Rama is now giving out to his allies. their sets of friends.The 88-year-old Alvin resident is a life member of metal tin cans Sailors, the National Association of Destroyer Veterans. I realized I was alone again. I had known utter loneliness, and I did not want to experience that again. Worse, there was nothing new for me to do. No children to cook and wash clothes for, and to drive to-and fetch from-schools. For the first time, I became aware that something was missing in my life,” retells Elena.

Despite sounding like one as she narrated her story, she is not a drama queen. She is quite a gas, in fact. “I did not finish college.He has since undergone two-and-a-half hours’ surgery to have a Titanium Rod inserted into his leg and looks set to be out of action for the rest of the season. In the past, whenever I was asked about the work I do, I’d say I’m a ‘chemist.Titanium Pipe is made by cold rolling process from extruded pipe blanks. They are widely used in heat exchangers and off-shore equipment.’ Y’know, kay mister umaasa.”

Elena laughs a lot, having been raised in a house of mirth, the eighth among eleven siblings who have taken to heart the teaching of their parents—that with prayer any pain can be overcome and turned into joy.