Then and Now




a look back into the past to start the new year right...

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  1. Jemi AquinoDecember 29, 2006 at 8:00 AM

    you should put your environmentally friendly costume for ms. p__ here in this album as well. =P

    HUGS,
    jemi

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  2. NORIE AMOSDecember 29, 2006 at 1:09 PM

    Is that you in 1975 photo or is it your Mom's? Happy New Year !!

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  3. Manang KaiyenDecember 29, 2006 at 4:29 PM

    carbon copy jud kaayo ka sa imo mama, inday. =)

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  4. Jeneen GarciaJanuary 4, 2007 at 4:06 AM

    but the original is always better, right? ;-) and lighter hahahaha. (and how come everyone still uses that term "carbon copy" when we've had photocopiers and faxes and scanners and other better duplication technologies since i was three years old when i first started hearing that term?)

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  5. Jeneen GarciaJanuary 4, 2007 at 4:15 AM

    hehe =P kaloko ka talaga, tito. happy new year to you and tita myrna!

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  6. Jeneen GarciaJanuary 4, 2007 at 4:18 AM

    har har. and i thought i was the only alive who still remembers that (and only because i have a photo of it to remind me =P). some things are better left in the darkness of the past.

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  7. Jerome RodilFebruary 3, 2007 at 1:34 AM

    ahmmm.... kamukha mo si lemz cabahug dito!!! (ask ate weng!) =)... pero, teka... 1976? sino 'to???

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  8. Jeneen GarciaFebruary 8, 2007 at 8:18 AM

    nanay ko po =P ano ba yan...

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  9. Jerome RodilFebruary 9, 2007 at 2:22 AM

    shockers... akala ko nagkamali ka lang ng date... pero ganda ng mama mo, ha... =)

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  10. Jeneen GarciaFebruary 12, 2007 at 7:45 AM

    op kors no ;-)

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  11. beng garciaMarch 17, 2007 at 11:06 PM

    neen- sa buhok lang tayo iba,but we also look the same when we were babies...mas beauty ka pa rin ngayon,sige na nga....:) anyways, thanks for putting up these pics the way they are - i like your arrangement.lola would want this "album".

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