thirtytwo: July 2007

Sunday, July 15, 2007

..in memory of my nanay juling (july 4, 1935 to july 9, 2007)

"nanay why are you frowning?..come and give me a big happy smile" -- taken last June 10, 2007 in north palm beach resort, bauan, la onion

This is my nanay juling, she is my mom's older sister and my second mom. She doesnt have any daughter only 2 sons, thats why she has always treated me and my sister as her own. Eversince her husband died years ago, she has lived in our house, although she has her own home(next to ours).

She has always been there for us eversince i can remember...shes does stuff for us the my mom hates to do...like transforming my messy hair into an extremely complicated braid,..she also cuts my hair even when i was already in college.... she loves doing my home economics projects..stitches, embroidery, crochet, doilies and such (yes believe it or not H.E. is one subject i suck at next to P.E.). She does the marketing for us every single day except when shes sick and cant get out of bed...she always brings rice cakes, corn, pineapples and bananas whenever she goes to the market...and she never gets tired or ever complained of going back and forth from the house to the market no matter how many times she has to in a day. Her passion is traveling, not the stylish plane hoping form one country to another but just sitting in the car and going somewhere...or anywhere for that matter. She also loves to watch other people gambling.

I have many funny stories of nanay but its not approprite as a blog article... i prefer to remember her that way, funny, smiling and happy...and i hope and i pray that you are, wherever you are right now. we love you nay...

TOGETHERNESS - by anonymous

Death is nothing at all.

I have only slipped away in to the next room.

I am I , and you are you.......

Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way you always used.....

Put no difference in your tone,wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together........

Play,smile,think of me. Pray for me. Let my name be the household name it always was.......

Let it be spoken without effort.

Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was.

Why should I be be out of your mind because I am out of your sight?

I am but waiting for you,for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner.

All is well,nothing is past,nothing is lost........

One brief moment and all will be as it was before,only better,infinitely happier and forever.

We will all be one together with Christ.

pictures at the wake:

...we stayed up to 530 am on the eve of the funeral...and these are the friends thats with us the whole time...we did everything so that we wont fall asleep and that includes picture taking....

*lovely, ede and neneng