When we were all in college at UST, Lea Balignasay and her two younger sisters, Adel and Liza, lived with us in a rented house near UST in Sampaloc. Binangonan was too far to come home to everyday so we all stayed in a weekday house. She was taking up Fine Arts at UST and she’s one of Aileen’s childhood classmates and close friends. Instead of staying in a dormitory, their parents thought it would be best if their daughters stayed with Aileen and I instead.
After her graduation, she went to live with her relatives in LA. A few years later Edmund and I drove 7 hours from San Francisco to Disneyland in Anaheim. Before heading back to the Bay Area, we went to visit her for a few minutes. Oyen was probably 2 years old. I remembered feeling sad after seeing her because feeling ko she was alone in that place because her parents and sisters were in Binangonan. LA was where she found love, Fred Flowers. she has a daughter Faye and as young-looking as she is, she now has a grandchild.
I met her again at the BANC dinner-dance party in San Jose last October. She, together with Aileen’s close friends based in LA, either drove or flew in to show support to Bong and Aileen’s BANC fund raising project and it was also a good excuse to have a mini get-together.
Lea gave me several bottles of doTerra essential oils. She’s a direct selling manager of this Italian company. doTerra sells natural, pure, high-grade therapeutic essential oils for wellness. She found out kasi that I was operated on and have some health issues kaya she gave me some bottles of this plant based natural oils for my health and wellbeing.
This lemon oil smells fantastic. Parang na re-relax na agad ako by smelling it. I forgot her specific instructions. I don’t know if I am supposed to put a drop on a glass of warm water and drink it. I could not read the instructions, I need a magnifying glass.
She also gave me a hard-bound book on the healing power of essential oils and a set of vintage gold plated cup and saucer from Europe.
Salamat Lea.
