Thank you, Ma!
- for being a big fan of my curls, sometimes even more than I am
- for always telling me, “Don’t say you can’t.”
- for understanding my “artistic outbursts” (that’s code for “pagka-alabuton”)
- for fueling my own creativity with yours (Please teach me how to tat. I know you’re been trying to teach me since I was in sixth grade, but maybe this is the year I’ll finally learn!)
- for saying, “This is my song for you,” each time you hear Lee Ann Womack’s I Hope You Dance on the radio (We both know it’s really corny, but we always sing along to it anyway!)
Happy birthday to the most interesting mother in the world. Your Girl With A Curl loves you!
(Yes, that’s me on her knee, and my brother behind her. Note that my curls are dormant, and will pounce on me like a thief in the night by the time I’m 12. And oh yeah, thanks Ma, for saving my virtue by your, er, creative hand placement!)
August 8th, 2008 at 3:07 am
happy birthday tita bingaling:) today, your birthday, is also the luckiest day of the year! you can ask for anything and you’ll get it (a porsche, a house in the bahamas, george clooney)
love from your honorary dawter
August 8th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
I hope she gets to read this! What a sweet tribute to your Mom. Happy Birthday to her!
August 9th, 2008 at 6:56 am
oh, happy birthday to your ma!!!
*alabuton made me smile. i can hear myself there too.
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August 9th, 2008 at 8:44 am
What a wonderful tribute Johari!!!!
Happy Biirthday Tita Bing! 
How cute you guys were. What a fat adorable baby you were!!!
August 9th, 2008 at 10:57 am
i had to have juls translate the alabuton thingie. heehee.
happy birthday to your mom! i hope she’s doing fine now!
August 9th, 2008 at 11:49 am
aaaawww.. sweet.. happy bday to your mom!
August 10th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Very sweet tribute. Hope your & your mom celebrated a joyous birthday
August 11th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Happy birthday to your mom!!
August 11th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Thank you, everyone! My mom would thank you, too, except she’s too impatient to type anything out and has a daughter like me to do it for her, haha!