Mudra
1. Alicia Ysit Aseremo Sevilla became a mother on September 29, 1977 almost 31 years ago.
2. Like everyone else in our household, she has a "house nickname" (Elsie) and an "others nickname" (Alice).
3. My lack of make up skills and fashion sense I can attribute to my mother. She is not kikay. The most kikay she has ever done — -as far as I can recall — is to perm her hair every month when I was around eight. And that’s about it.
4. Both my mother and father let me have my barkada moments because they have barkadas too. My mother has her church barkada, her Roosevelt barkada (moms like her who used to wait on us, their Kindergarten children, at school) and her cousins.
5. I also attribute my fascination for artistas to my mom who was, and still is (despite his demise), a die-hard Fernando Poe Jr. fan. Yes, she voted for him. My mom’s most recent favorite is the actor who plays Jumong in the Koreanovela of the same name. (She made me look up pictures of him on the net and asked if she can upload it on her phone. Yeesh.) My mom and I clearly have different tastes in men but we both curled up like teenagers watching Ewan McGregor in Moulin Rouge.
6. My mother always laughs at my jokes. She thinks I’m funny as hell.
7. My mother likes to buy stuff for the house, like glasses and plates and stupperware (what I call fake tupperware) and then keep them in cabinets for the mice to sleep on.
8. My parents are perhaps one of the few people in the world who without a doubt, and I know in my heart, for sure, are in love. My mom, in particular, I think still has a little crush on my dad after all these years.
9. My mom’s description of my boyfriends (that she met haha): BF #1 "Ang liit!"; BF #2 "Ang laki!"; BF #3 "Kalbo!".
10. My son Cojie is proof that moms just get better with time. She’s been a mom thirty one years but five of those, she was mom to two insane kids.
Whoever made up Mother’s Day must have had an awesome mom too.
