Da Didi’s Birthday

Leave it to Nore to throw an instant party when necessary. At his birthday party in Carte Blanche Resto (World Trade Center), Didi Lim admitted in his speech to the guests that he had not planned to have a 65th birthday party. He wondered aloud whether 65 years is an event that should actually be celebrated or kept vague with the public. But daughter Claire and her husband Alex were coming from Singapore for the occasion and so, why not?

The tables in the resto were set to accommodate different groups. The groups were: the Lim family including Didi’s brothers and sister who came from abroad; Raquel-Santo family led by Francis, Lynn and Rene Sunico; Balikbayan friends of Nore and Didi from Vancouver and NY; Didi’s friends in Manila; and the CAFAs. The CAFAs who celebrated Didi’s birthday with him were: Pearl and Vic, Myrna and her husband; Cecille; Mina Hernandez; Dinky; Alex; Emi; Fe Bareiro; Cynthia Henson; and Oni and Bili.

The resto facility was spacious and the Thai cuisine delicious. The sing-along with the band started after dinner where Francis, the CAFAs, and friends of Didi and Francis took to the mic. After a lot of prodding, Fe was finally convinced to perform on stage. Fe sang a Tagalog ditty which impressed the CAFAs and particularly Didi who did ballet-like moves on the dance floor as Fe belted it out. Overall, the CAFAs enjoyed themselves. A topic of conversation was the recent CAFA adventure in Negros and Iloilo land where the gastronomic weakness of the CAFAs was proven once and for all. (ang tatakaw kasi!)


See slide show for more photos.