Kara is 23

Dinner at Cyma

Birthday blow-out @ 101

Yummy Estrel's caramel cake

The Search

Instead of soul-searching (which I usually do on my birthdays since I turned golden), I spent my 50+ birthday searching for the best sisig in Angeles, Pampanga. Another discovery was the original Red Crab in Clark. Yummy day!

Kara & Friends at Musicbox

Lovely at 22!

April 27, 2010
Chelsea Restaurant

Sixty is Sexy!

Tito celebrated his 60th birthday on September 27, 2010. The party was held in Cerchio Restaurant.

Mommy's birthday celebration 2010

Happy Birthday, Ivan!

My inaanak, Ivan, turned 24 last August 22, 2010. Birthday celebration was at Maki Haus

Happy Birthday, Winnie!

Joined high school classmates in Subic to help celebrate Winnie's birthday.
July 25, 2010

Happy Birthday, Meryl!

May 23, 2010

Meryl's Debut

Diamond Hotel
May 22, 2010

Freddie's 100th (?)

Nobody for sure knew whether it was Wilfrido Maria Guerrero's 99th or 100th birthday we were celebrating (more research needs to be done). Even up to now, Freddie keeps us guessing his real age! But as always, the alumni of the UP Mobile Theater and UP Dramatic Club (represented by Behn Cervantes) had fun celebrating their love for him.

Happy Birthday to me!

September 25, 2009 was spent in Tagaytay for Me time! For 24 hours or so, I created a world where I could celebrate everything that has made me who I am the last 53 years!

Happy 26th birthday, Powie!

Birthday dinner at Congo Grille
September 16, 2009

WMG Strikes again

Freddie's plays are produced again... Dinner after the show at ROC courtesy of Al and myself

I feel 52!

On Sept. 25, the four of us had dinner in Little Asia on Morato. Then we bought dessert at Amici which we shared with the cousins in Ling's house. Birthdays after the age of 50 are meant to be celebrated quietly...Shhh!

Papa's 80th birthday

Papa turned 80 in November 30, 2003 but the celebration was postponed until Bong & his family got in from Australia. The party was held a month later in Off the Grill on Timog Avenue.

Sunday dinner at Sicilian

We're celebrating Papa's, Ling's and Neneth's birthdays here.

On being 51 to her 85

                                                 

     When Mama was 51, I was 17. I was midway through my freshman year in college. Where was she, what was she doing at the stage of her life? Did she have the same concerns about her children which I am going through at present? Did she have doubts about decisions she had made. Was she as uncertain of the future then as I am now?

     I remember being at the crossroads. Feisty and independent yet full of insecurities. Discovering exciting things yet also looking back to the comforts of familiarity. Did I cause her much anxiety? Was she proud of what I was trying to do at that age?

     I also remember that those were the most trying of times. Were her fears more for Papa than for us at that time? (Martial law=incarceration!!!) How did she cope with this crisis? How did we survive?

      It would have been nice to ask her these questions. It would have been enlightening to hear her answers. But her illness prevents her from telling me about the mother she heroically tried to be all these years. Nonetheless, it is great that she continues to teach me life's lessons at age 85!

 (Photo by Gari Buenavista - http://pananaw.multiply.com)

Mama's 80th birthday

These are the slides from the power point presentation shown during her surprise birthday party at Fairchild Cafe.