Fernando Ting
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The multiple Awards Finalist author won a Finalist Medal in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Honorable Mention in the Author Shout Reader Ready Awards and another Finalist Medal in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards. He was born in Manila, Philippines to a Chinese immigrant father and a Filipino mother. At age two, his family moved to the northern city of Baguio where he learned his second language Ilocano. At nine, his family moved to Tarlac where he learned his third language Pampango.
Due to financial difficulties, he did not go to college after finishing High School. Instead, he opted to slog through casual jobs. Eventually, by God's will and sheer determination, he broke into overseas work when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia opened up job opportunities to international workers. Thereat, he completed his learning and understanding of life through careful observation at the workplace and also picking up some Arabic words in the process. He found time to court and later marry his fiancee, Lucila Espinosa Muan. They were blessed with a daughter they named Hannah. The family immigrated to the United States in 1998 and settled in the beautiful city of Anchorage, Alaska. He found a job as a housekeeping supervisor in Barratt Inn and later as airport custodian at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport after joining the Local 71 Union. After fifteen years, he retired in March 2013. He and his wife resettled back in the Philippines for six years before moving back to the States to be with their daughter and her family in Las Vegas, Nevada. After the Covid 19 Pandemic, the author did not renew his book publishing contract with the US-based Christian Faith Publishing company thus ending the book's current availability in the book market. The couple decided to come back to Tarlac, Philippines in June 2022. The author is planning to write a second book and looking for another publisher to publish a revised edition of his first book. |
The Kingdom I Came To Love
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Memoir
This memoir was written to share and preserve the memories of ecstasy and tragedy experienced by the author as an expatriate worker in Saudi Arabia. The reader will gain insight into the world of multinational brains and brawn who were drawn to the Middle East in search of work, adventure, and the lure of petrodollars. Greatly sacrificing being away from home and loved ones for great lengths of time, each and every one of these brave and hard workers has a story to tell, this book is one of them. Although not everyone will have the chance of working away from home let alone find a job in the Middle East particularly Saudi Arabia, reading this book will let you experience in a matter of hours within the comfort of a safe and nice environment what this author took years to endure in the hot and dusty desert kingdom. Again, this book is just a microcosm of the so much bigger story of Saudi Arabia and its heroic workers. While not intended for children, young adults and grown-ups will find this book worth reading for the actual, real-life events described herein and will stir up further interest in related, broader subjects. Those in the construction and industrial maintenance industries may deduce some of the stories mentioned anecdotally and therefore amusing rather than technical in nature. Fernando G. Ting Author of the book 
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