Monday, October 6, 2008

a lovely portrait


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Originally uploaded by prettyChloe
This portrait of a young girl has been hanging to the wall near the dining area and it has been there eversince. My Lolo loved this portrait very much. As a child, i would asked my lolo who's the girl in the portrait and he would simply reply that it was me. To a young child's mind i would simply believe what lolo has told me. Then as i grew up and was on my early teens, my then younger cousin liza would asked lolo the same question regarding the girl in the portrait, and to which my lolo replied that the little girl was her. This portrait is very memorable and precious to us. My tita Linda or Tita Da as we fondly call her who died of breast cancer won this portrait from a book club.The girl in the portrait is very pretty and visitors who come into the house would always ask us who the girl is in the portrait. We really dont know who painted this portrait. We tried searching for this in the internet but to no avail. In one filipino movie which starred Lorna Tolentino, this same portrait was hanged in her house of that said movie.

Now that im having a baby girl, Abay told me that's how our baby Chloe will look like when she comes out. hehe. I could only hope and wish for that. I keep looking at the portrait and wonder what if my baby will look like the little girl. I remember what my mom told me when she was carrying me that she conditioned her mind that the baby inside her would be a girl and it turned out the way she hoped and wished for. So now i'm trying to condition my mind that the baby i'm carrying will look like the pretty girl in the portrait....

4 comments:

Aisha said...

That's such a beautiful portrait, Ling. :) Grabe ka maayo mosulat uy!

Melissa said...

nah ms believe ko sa imo kay imong blog puno kaau...siksik sa laman..hahah

Aisha said...

haha! Ling, dugangi sa sidebar ug pangadd sa links bitaw para makipagexchange link ka sa uban. Magchat unta ta usab.

Melissa said...

unsaon man pag dugang anang sidebar ug links aish? dunno how...