Basilena Stunner – Ethel Fay de Asis Lintag.By: Joey P. Tugung (06/18/07)
Figuratively, our children seem to grow right in front of our eyes. Suddenly, at one point in time in our life, in hindsight, we sense as if it was not long time ago that our children were just toddlers – we change their diaper, bath them, cloth them, feed them, bring them to school, to church etc. And then when they became teens, we didn’t even sense it until their graduation in high school – at this stage, here we tend to realize that age has started to catch up with us. Meaning, the idea that we’re getting old now starts to sink in. And this continues seriously at a level when our child turns 18 years old.
Everything seems surreal and this is exactly what Engr. Raymond Lintag and lady love Ma. Victoria de Asis Lintag have experience when they started to make the preparations for their eldest child’s debut. They felt as if it was just like yesterday when they were cradling their daughter and singing the lullaby to put her to sleep.
This knockout beauty from Basilan is
Ethel Fay de Asis Lintag. The eldest among the brood of 3, she will be celebrating her 18th birthday this week, Wednesday, June 20. And of course, in that regard, since it is a "debut," tradition dictates that an elaborate preparation has to be work out. Proud parents, relatives and friends have been working "round-the-clock" to ensure that this once in a lifetime social culture would be special and memorable for Ethel. Siblings Patrick Amos Lintag (12 years old) and Christiana Lintag (10 years old) though still young yet have always been kept in the loop by their parents as to the plans and the preparations.
Ethel, as she is fondly called, belongs to BNHS Batch 2005, which not coincidentally is the same school were her loving parents finished their studies as well. Call it loyalty; the Lintag’s are obstinate BNHS alums.
Without the prodding of the parents, and in deference to Ethel’s sense of independence, currently she is in her 3rd year taking up a bachelor’s degree in nursing at the Ateneo de Zamboanga. With all respects to the other profession, Ethel said that nursing is a practical but professional vocation that can turn the tide of one’s social and emic status, including the family, to a degree that would make life secured and comfortable. Aside from her sincere desire to serve the clinical or nursing needs of humanity, this is actually the short and long-term goal that Ethel has set for herself.
To achieve her dream, uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Behringer, are generous enough to fund the educational scholarship of Ethel through college. Aunt Miriam Lintag Behringer is the sister of elder brother Raymond Lintag.
This picture truly gives a sense that one of our main agricultural products in Basilan, the rubber, can serve as a perfect cinematography for picture. This is photography in its finest form!
Note: Don’t be surprised by the exquisiteness of these pictures because dad Raymond is a professional shutterbug. What started as a mere hobby when we were in Silliman University, Dumaguete City, where Raymond earned his engineering degree (we were dorm mates at the Doltz Hall Dormitory, along with fellow Basilenos FT Alano, Bobby De La Pena, Edwin Madrazo, Joey Grino etc.) has turned out to be a professional photographer par excellence.
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