In one of my earlier posts, I have written about our family going to two different communities in the Tagaytay area. We have a little investment in the Cavite/Tagaytay vicinity, a small piece of real estate which we are still paying until a few years more and which we hope we can have a small house built after all financial responsibilities with the children are finished. My former classmates/ friends who are mostly living and working in the USA are also thinking of having such an investment. But since most of them do not have plans of relocating back to the Philippines, they are scouting for pieces of real estate where they can retire. Most of these friends are in California. Some of them have already started investing in real estate properties since one of our high school classmates is a real estate agent. I wonder if he has La Jolla Homes for sale. Homes in the southern part of this state have a sort of Hispanic Mission homes, ranch style and Mediterranean style. Why am I taking an interest in these architectural styles even if I haven’t been to that part of the world? Because the real estate property we are investing in has a California Mission style theme as guidelines in building the houses. I just hope we can fulfill this dream of ours. Ahhh…to breathe fresh cool mountain air. Must be invigorating.

In this generation of aesthetically enhanced bodies, everything that needs to be cosmetically enhanced has been experimented on, from nose jobs or rhinoplasty to chin augmentation as well as buttock augmentation. Who would have thought even ear surgery is now being done to reshape the ears? We have seen a lot of people, women especially, with beautiful natural or enhanced faces but we are shocked when we see that behind the glossy and silky hair are two pairs of ears that do not necessarily look nice. Whatever the shape of the ears is, these do not give too much importance if the person does not use his/her ears to maximize learning. How so?

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I cannot remember my Senior Prom. I do have a photo though where I was sitting with four of my closest friends, Gloria, Gina and Patty but I do not really remember whether we were Juniors or Seniors then. In the photo I wore a pink blouse and skirt ensemble which was sewn by one of the dressmakers in our town. Being in the province during the 80′s (that long ago!?) we do not have much choice with prom accessories like ready-made dresses, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, anklets, shoes and hair trinkets. All we have are borrowed jewelry like gold rings, gold necklace and/or gold earrings from our mothers. But now, there are a variety of colors, textures and accessories to choose from. How lucky these young ladies are today, they have so many choices to make to be able to look good on one of the special days in high school!