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LENI CASIGURAN INGKING - ZAHEER: Living Life Like Leni
« on: June 13, 2007, 05:11:57 PM »
FOR SUNDAY, OCT. 29, 2006
Living life like LENI
 By Fiel Angeli E. Araoarao – Gabin   





(1) Leni and Mohd Zaheer Noor during Bollywood Night         
                            (2) Family bonding     
(3) Leni with Tasha and Nadya on their India trip   
                  




                                 5) A fun day at the beach with the Zaheers

(4) Singapore Airlines Chief Steward Zaheer Noor as the loving father           


“…Live a happy and fulfilling life surrounded by people I love… To be there for the people that I love…To continuously learn and grow from lessons and mistakes that I make along the way...”

Her family once attended the birthday celebration of my sister Ann Claire back in the mid-70s as Ma’am Alice, her mother, and Mama Wincie were co-teachers at the Bohol Provincial High School (now Dr. Cecilio Putong National High School) at that time. I saw the photograph of that occasion while I was scrambling for my old pictures last week. I also recall that she and her younger sister Haidee would willingly sing during the children’s Christmas party organized by Auntie Esper (former regional director of the Department of Social Welfare and Development – Central Visayas) and Auntie Lita E. Bruñidor (a dedicated teacher at Cogon Elementary School) for their nieces and nephews.
Born on September 10, 1968 to Ens. Gorgonio Bruñidor Ingking (Cogon, Tagbilaran City), formerly with the Philippine Navy and Philippine Coast Guard, and Alicia Brown Casiguran (Catarman and San Antonio, Samar), Leni was a very active student leader at Holy Spirit School during her elementary days where she graduated with honors. It’s no surprise that when she transferred to Bohol National High School for her secondary education, she was the Class Salutatorian and recipient of the Gerry Roxas Leadership Award and Kiwanis Community Service Award. She was also our “kengkoy” (pardon my language) but very responsible leader in the BNHS Girl Scouting movement, Student Catholic Action (SCA) and in the Supreme Student Government (SSG). In 1983 or 1984, she was crowned Miss Bohol National High School Personality, exuding not only grace, charm and poise, but eloquence, talent and intelligence, as well. Now I remember Mama Wincie kept telling me many times before “awata na si Leni kay buo-tan” which never offended me at all as Leni’s my idol. It’s interesting to have known from her mom from our telephone conversation last Friday that Leni’s great grandfather, Theodore Brown, was in the US Navy and, in fact, was one of the American Liberation Forces assigned in Leyte and Samar in the Second World War.

A consistent dean’s lister and initiator of school activities, Leni obtained her degree in Bachelor of Arts – Major in Psychology from the University of the Philippines – Cebu. In 1990, she and another remarkable Boholana, May Amparo Valles Blanco, were among the youth participants in the Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Program (SSEAYP). It is a program for youth leaders, carried out by the government of Japan, with the active participation and cooperation of 10 Southeast Asian countries, based on the respective joint statements issued in January 1974 between Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei joined the program in 1985, Vietnam in 1996, Laos and Myanmar in 1998, and Cambodia in April 1999. SSEAYP aims to promote friendship and mutual understanding between the youth of Japan and Southeast Asian countries, broaden their perspective on the world, strengthen their motivation and ability in international cooperation by participating in discussions and in various exchange activities both on-board and in the countries visited. On board the ship, the youth delegates are provided learning activities such as discussions, solidarity group activities, club activities, introduction to each country, lectures, studies for safe voyage, including lifeboat drills other activities approved by Cruise Operating Committee (COC). In the countries that they visit, the youth delegates do courtesy calls, homestay, parties on board, and open ship, program on interaction with local people during a visit to facility. Other activities are arranged by the respective governments and the reception committee. Participating youths are expected to progress to leadership positions in youth activities in their own countries after this program. It was during the SSEAYP trip that Leni met the love of her life, husband Mohd Zaheer Noor, Singapore Airlines Chief Steward (the team leader of the Bohol ROPES Project which has adopted Eastern Cogon Elementary School in Cogon District as its beneficiary school. (The group is now on its second year of doing supplemental feeding and school repair projects.)
Leni is the fifth in a family of six children. Renato, the eldest, died in the early ‘90s.Vilma Ingking Uayan is working at the National Irrigation Administration - Bohol. The third, Col. Edgardo Ingking, after serving as Chief of Police of the Tagbilaran City Police Station in July 2003 up to 2004, was sent to Liberia as member of the United Nations peace-keeping forces, while the fourth, Gorgonio Jr., is a seafarer. Haidee, the youngest (also my schoolmate), working in an advertising company in Singapore, was Miss Bohol National High School Personality 1989 and runner-up in the Mutya sa Tagbilaran and Miss Bohol Sandugo beauty tilts. (Trivia: Leni, together with then Maribojoc Mayor Paula Raagas Valles, former Miss BHS and Miss Bohol title holder, crowned this writer as Miss BNHS Personality in 1986, while I passed on the crown to Haidee in 1989.)
The former student leader is now personal assistant to the managing director and information manager of Design Bridge Asia, a global branding firm. She was awarded Singapore's Administrative Professional Award 2006-2008 and will be representing Singapore in the ASA Asia Pacific Awards to be held in Bombay, India next month. She is currently on her final year of Master of Science in Knowledge Management, Nanyang Technological University. For the past 10 years, she has been conducting classes on Filipino culture and language and does volunteer work with special kids and in old folks’ homes.
According to Leni, who likes music, singing, baking, travel, and all sorts of activities that involve her two children Tasha, 10, at Primary 4 and Nadya, 7, Primary 1 at Fuchun Primary School (Singapore), she has found satisfaction, contentment and happiness in being with and learning with her daughters and family. As a student and youth leader in the past, people expected her to be a successful career woman, but at the onset of the peak her career, she decided to prioritize her kids and quit work for about five (5) years. She rejoined the workforce only when the kids were bigger and started off with a simple admin job to ensure that she has more time and energy for the kids. After all, “life is not all about work and careers, it's about the relationships that we foster and nurture; its' about making other people happy and feeling happy in the process: it's about doing small things that make this world a better place to live in.”  (Fiel Angeli E. Araoarao – Gabin)









 













   





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