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They say “Age is just a number.”

Last week, I covered this elegant baby boomers’ fashion show and anniversary bride celebration that I know I am far too young and out of league to enjoy and mingle around. It was one of Manila's seemingly endless string of fashion shows but it wasn't one of those parties full of hopping young people dancing the Pump Up the Jam and smoking cigarettes indoors. This was a sort of fashionably elegant party that senior rich people attended—people who used to dance the Mashed Potato and smoke indoors 40 years ago, when Ermita was still the cool party zone and Greenbelt didn't exist yet.

This is the circle of wealthy, educated and high-functioning seniors who we look up to. A crowd that is composed of international ambassadors, high-earning businessmen, and accomplished personalities— and I was lucky and I partied with them.

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It was amazing to realize that these boomers were young people once. And we should never forget that. They drink, party and laugh about all of the other things that they did (or are still doing). Apparently, some of them get hold of their party phase.

In the spot, seeing all of them smiling, Bravo Filipino Magazine respected and rewarded their achievements because these elite people share the type of hard-earned knowledge that only comes from a long life on this Earth. it is their experience that they dedicated their lives to the well-being of society and of the nation. All their lives, whatever their profession was they worked every day and all the time to do some service to the society through their field of activity. Dedicated their energy, thought, and creativity to support, nourish and to improve the quality of life.

Leaving at the event, as I push the down button of the elevator, I learned something for them…that life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. Enjoy life, let loose, party hard and just have a good time.

* For more photos and details about this event, please grab a copy of BRAVO Filipino Magazine's Volume 6 Issue No,.21 coming out soon on June 2017

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I am curious. I travel. I am soul searching. Curious Tootling Soul, 3 words referring to me. In our everyday lives, we wander, and we ask questions. Yes, and sometimes it is hard to explain to someone who doesn’t quite see the world how you do— the way you do. Life to many can just be sectionalized and put into little boxes. A box for your true self; a box for your sociable self; a box for your fancies: your wants, your desires. Looking at your bucket list—list, highlight, and check. For some though life isn’t quite so simple. Some of us don’t know exactly what we want to do next or where we want to go, we just know there is so much out there we want to experience. We visit and travel new places often without knowing exactly what for, just that we know in our soul we need to. Mundane, humdrum existence and material things don’t impress us. We are in search for answers, for fulfillment and gratification. We need to be surrounded by love and warmth, growth and good. We know there is nothing better than a genuine laugh or a heartfelt hug. We are moved by the storytellers, the dreamers, the drifters, the people whose lives are different than ours, that we can learn from. We are drawn to new surroundings and unique experiences. As we fall in love with so many things around us, sometimes it is hard to keep track. We love and we continuously holding on for that love. We love different. We love doing things that terrify us because we know those are the moments that we grow. We love looking back and seeing that we have accomplished what we never thought we could, things we never thought were even a possibility. Because it is in those moments we know we are becoming the people we were always intended to be. We leap before we look sometimes. It is finding ourselves when we didn’t know we were lost and continuing to find ourselves over and over again. It is kissing a cute stranger under the stars, waving at a baby we pass on the street, helping someone who cannot repay us. It is jotting down a funny memory or a beautiful quote we can’t forget. It is finding out what makes us smile the biggest, what our passions are, what makes our eyes light up just by talking about it. (an excerpt from A. Twigg, 2015) I fall, but I keep on rising. My faith has been tested, but it always remains. I have grandiose plans and an endless list of options; the places that I want to explore and journeys that I want to take. I don’t always know how I will accomplish something, I just know some ways and the courage of somehow—I will. Life for me is a puzzle of creating moments. It is finding my next adventure. It is setting my feet on new sands, diving into new seas. It is laughing with a group of strangers, singing words to songs that I don’t know matters. It is knowing that there is a whole wide world out there just waiting for me to discover it. It is the feeling that there is no better time than right now to do what we have always wanted to do, so why not go? Do it.