My sister Remi invited me to lunch at her place--her THIRD birthday celebration this week. I'd finished my painting and could now hang loose. My sister Alice and I came early, took lunch early, and left early. The lunch was really for my sister Remi's former high school classmates at St. Scholastica's anyway. I remember Babsie Paredes from when I was in grade school. I was eleven or 12 at the time and she was the first liberated woman I ever met, and to think that women's lib would get established in the Philippines only in the 70s. Remi said that I should also remember Cristy Matias, though I couldn't; I wonder now whether she is the sister of Al Matias. Baby Barredo was also invited, but I don't know whether she showed up or not after I left. She wouldn't have remembered me. Bibot Amador might have, had she still been alive.