Cely's 62nd Birthday at CAFE SIERRA

Manang Cely celebrated her sixty-second birthday last March 18, 2006 at CAFE SIERRA in Sheraton Universal City, CA

the Pablico siblings Ricky, Cely, Cita and Corring [Soc]

together with some of her friends Ate Elvie, Kuya Ed and grandson Dodong

with relatives and families

the children of Pablico and Ancheta families

the Pablico Family Cely, Pat, Lisa, Isaiah, Kalani and Majik

Soc, Arleen, Cely, Pat, Lisa, Cita and Pangga
Ari, Anthony Isaiah, Kalani and Majik

Ate Lita Briones and Soc Ancheta

The Pablico Family Rene, Necy, Auntie, Cely, Jake and Precious

with Kuya Ed, Ate Elvie, Cely Ate Lita and Dodong

the kids with the celebrant

RECONCILLIATION 2006

Yesterday was the 2nd graders Reconcilliation day

Anthony and mommy walking inside the church

Anthony had a heart-to-heart talk to the priest

presenting the 2nd grade class of St. Jane Frances

Anthony and daddy after the church activity

anthony received his certification

Miguel, Anthony, Mark, Robert and Ferdinand after the Reconcilliation

WEAR SUNSCREEN

...I think this has been around before.

This originally came out in a column by Martha Schmich in Chicago Tribune, June 1997. However her article was miscredited to Kurt Vonnegut via e-mail and became hugely popular. It was eventually recorded into a song in 1999(everybody's free to wear sunscreen) in the CD Something for Everybody by Baz Luhrmann, and was properly credited to Schmich.

enjoy your reading...

Wear Sunscreen

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.

Scientists have proved the long-term benefits of sunscreen,

whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind.

You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.

But trust me, in 20 years;

you will look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you cannot grasp now

how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

You are not as fat as you imagine.

Do not worry about the future.

Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind,

the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing....

Do not be reckless with other people's hearts.

Do not put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss...

Do not waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you are ahead, sometimes you are behind.

The race is long and, in the end, it is only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults.

If you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters.

Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Do not feel guilty if you do not know what you want to do with your life.

The most interesting people I know did not know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still do not.

Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees.

You will miss them when they are gone.

Maybe you will marry, maybe you will not.

Maybe you will have children, maybe you will not.

Maybe you will divorce at 40; maybe you will dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.

Whatever you do, do not congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either.

Your choices are half chance. So is everybody else's.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can.

Do not be afraid of it or of what other people think of it.

It is the greatest instrument you will ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you do not follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they will be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings. They are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on.

Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard.

Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel...

Accept certain inalienable truths:

Prices will rise.
Politicians will philander.

You, too, will get old.

And when you do, you will fantasize that when you were young,

prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Do not expect anyone else to support you.

Maybe you will have a trust fund.

Maybe you will have a wealthy spouse.

But you never know when either one might run out.

Do not mess too much with your hair or by the time you are 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.

Advice is a form of nostalgia.

Dispensing, it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal,

wiping it off,

painting over the ugly parts and

recycling it for more than it is worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen...

by Martha Schmich