Happy Birthday Nanay..

'Nanay' is a tagalog word which means 'mother' in english..

It's my late mother's birthday today. I am missing her so much. I wish I could hug and kiss her, show her all my love that is overflowing right now.. I wish I could buy her all her favourite things and provide her with all the comfort that she might need.. She's supposed to be enjoying her 79th birthday today if Alzheimer's disease did not took her away from us..


A happy photo of my mother with our children when they were small taken in Renaissance Hotel during one of our vacations

My dearest mother passed away last February 2000. She's far from perfect but I would never ever wish for anyone else. We might have had an unconventional family life when I was a kid but for me she'll always be the best and the most wonderful mother in this whole wide world..!

I love you nanay.. I know you're enjoying yourself out there... I sent you my prayer this morning and here's our hugs and kisses... Pa and your grandchildren also misses and loves you so much..

Happy 45th Birthday Pa..!

Hey, wake up everyone! it's our pa's 45th birthday today..

I woke up at 5:30 am this morning, earlier than usual to make sure the feast will turn out right.. Myself and my daughter had bought all the necessary ingredients last night in Jusco after I arrived from work. We had prepared everything so all are ready for cooking this morning. Just a simple family meal...

The feast includes stir-fry prawn with vegetable and rice noodle, macaroni with seasonal veggies in chicken broth, fried chicken marinated in herbs, pita bread to go with the braised pork i'll cook when i get back from work this afternoon. The hors d'oeuvres shall be prepared by our daughter later today. Not so yummy because I'm not a good cook and so does our daughter... The thing is, all the foods we prepared and shall be preparing has all the right amount of love, care and dash of thoughtfulness to spice it up..

The special mini cake we had ordered shall arrive at 12 noon, and the freshly-made fita bread shall be delivered too. I'll drop by at Jusco at 2pm to get a liter of Jack Daniels papa love and a bottle of red.


The Birthday Boy shall arrive at noon from work so things will be ready including our gifts. I bought him a 'Kurta'(native shirt made from handwoven materials famous in Vietnam, which i bought from my recent travel), a Breil Watch, yellow scarf and a pack of sweet dried kiwi he really love. While my daughter who knows all our favourite things, bought her pa a box of chocolate.. Hehehe, she knows how much pa loves chocolates..

The two boys are still asleep when I walk out of our home to get here in my office. I wonder if they already has some gifts prepared.. I wish I could just stay there and be with them when pa arrives..

quick birthday bash before take off

It's my birthday today... the greatest gift i got is pa's presence and his effort to cook native stuff for my special day.. and of course a lot more.. he took his time off from work just to be with me.. he gave me the jacket i really want to have, celine dion's enchanting perfume collection and complete season of a series Mistresses plus stephen kings' DVD collections. He really knows what i like.. I'm a collector of various wholesome american series ie.: desperate housewife, brothers and sisters, etc; and movies of famous writers i admire most. i love you pa..






I also would like to thank my children for being with me, for the good wishes and of course the presence of our extended family here: jera, laila, amy, susan and leah while some were not able to come. Their work location is quite far but they always remember my birthday and their good wishes always warm my heart.. thanks and i love you all..!

We're supposed to celebrate my birthday at 12 midnight but myself and pa were too tired so we had the candle blowing just this morning with my two sons and love ones.. our daughter is in her boarding school but she had sent her loving wishes thru phone and FS.








At 8 am we are all here celebrating and laughing our hearts out, as we usually do whenever we get together.. we have such a heartwarming bunch of extended families here.. Thanks God for all the blessings..








This is such as quick bash.. I'll gonna post down my birthday celebration photo in our friendster site: http://profiles.friendster.com/51347119


i'm quite sad though, got a flight to catch for vietnam business trip at 1450 today.... :(