Carmela Maglasang is a science instructor in California and New York since 2002 and has also taught Visual Arts in NYC . She is a member of SongWriting Guild (Northeast) , NYC Writing Guild, etc. Her passion is in the arts, songwriting, poetry, writing stories and mostly , in painting. The memories of her enchanting childhood in Southeast Asia, living in the estate of her aunt, Castora Paller, whose house and vast gardens were filled with verdant exotic flowers ( 'champaca' - gardenia , 'sampaguita' - jasmine in English , YlangYlang,, latigo ( endemic orchids ) that hung from ancient...more