Merry Christmas Ninang Gilda (Revisiting a previous FB Post)
December 24, 2025 Merry Christmas Ninang Gilda This Christmas, a special occasion made possible by the closeness of family get togethers, I remember someone who is not really family but a close family friend of my parents particularly my father whom she adored. I called her Ninang Gilda but she is better known to the book-going public as writer Gilda Cordero-Fernando or publisher GCF. Today, my siblings celebrated a pre-Christmas luncheon without me or Macoy at Ayala Alabang. Whether it is a conscious decision on their part to exclude me and Macoy in their little-grand salo salo, I don’t mind it at all and don’t feel any remorse or self-pity. In fact, me and Macoy decided early on we won’t go even if we were invited which of course we weren’t. Mommy and Daddy are long gone and although both me and Macoy lived with them through their twilight years here in Sanville, to their last breaths as it were; it is just Macoy who I consider family right now. He needs me. I need to help ...