The truth, palanggas, is that the prom queens of 1979 are now parents (no nuns, dahlings!), and the cute guys in their midst are their husbands.
Moi sneaked in past midnight and not one of my palanggas from that super beauty-and-brains batch noticed moi!
What with the music of the Overdrive band, and the heat of the night as these Assumptionistas rocked, rocked and rocked! Natch!
Spearheaded by HS ’79 class president Dr. Carmela Ongsiako Isabela, the fund-raising was held for the benefit of the Laura Vicuna Foundation for street children and the Assumption Mission Schools. Noblesse oblige, di bala, palanggas!
The tres dazzling night had hotshot sponsors like Philippine Airlines (which donated two tickets to Hong Kong won by looker Aissa Barrera Cojuangco); our very own Philippine STAR, the only paper you read from cover to cover; the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, Zetamark (GM Louie Vargas gave away fabi Calvin Klein watches won by Andie Recto-Montenegro and Mitos Pacis), Singapore Airlines, Joey Concepcion, Mikey Cojuangco, Plantation Bay, Citibank, PEOPLE Asia magazine (whose editor-in-chief moi palangga Joanne Rae Ramirez, is a proud member of batch ’79), Vise Versa (by the fashionable Rina Go), Club Panoly, Mercelles (which gave away a pearl bracelet won by oh-so-slim Arlina Arrozal de Jesus), PLDT, True Value, Dish, Cibo, Soleil, El Comedor, Vicky Belo, Orient Spa, Wendy’s, Globe Telecom, and SC Johnsons.
See you in 2004, for your silver jubilee velada, palanggas. And don’t look a day older, dahlings!