Well, last July 31, my daughter turned 16.

I think I have once said here that my three kids are all July born. And the youngest and only girl happened to be at the tail end - ‘humabol pa siya’. Funny thing is - she was born just after the killer quake that hit Luzon on July 16, 1990. She could have been August born, but she was so insistent to come out and be July born like her two ‘kuyas’ - and at 10:30 in the evening, she broke the quiet of the night with her first cry. Thanks to the able hands of Dra. Betha Fe Manaois Castillo who maneuvered her to normal birth position, thus averting a CS surgery.

Only two years from now, she would be having her debut. Oh - the debut - the birthday every girl rave about! And to think she already searched for her gown design!