SAN FABIAN—This super grandma dressmaker still does what she likes doing best– threading the needle all by herself and sewing or repairing tattered clothes and offers.

The bubbly Rosenda Bernardo Flores of Barangay Tempra-Guilig here is gifted not only with long life, sharp memory but skills in dressmaking, despite her age.

Flores, who turned 103 on May 24, can easily be the envy of many people as she takes only natural foods composed of vegetables, fish and fruits, with no multi-vitamin supplements and no maintenance tablets, too for common illnesses that usually afflict elderly citizens.

Nanay Rosing (or Bai Rosing) to many is also a good conversationalist and always ready with her sweet smile and hearty laugh.

Born in Sison town but grew up in San Fabian, Nanay Rosing can quickly enumerate the names of her husband and six children.

“My age? Right now it’s 103,” she told The PUNCH in Pangasinan. She still has her birth certificate, according to her daughter Myrna.

“I have three boys, three girls,” she replied when asked how many children she has. Then she mentioned their names one by one– Alma Bella, Evangeline, Nestor, Levi, Myrna and Noel.

Her husband Rodolfo died when he was 63 years old, she said.

But when asked about her grandchildren and great grandchildren, she said laughing, “They’re too many.”

She vividly remembers her work during her prime as a teacher of dressmaking and typewriting in San Fernando City, La Union.

Her daily routine today includes a set of exercise for stretching her arms and legs.

After breakfast, she would sit on their terrace to begin repairing tattered clothes, and, believe it or not, she does the threading of the needle by herself without help from anyone, and without need to wear eyeglasses.

“I don’t use eyeglasses. They only get in the way to me,” she said in Filipino. NanayRosing also speaks fluent Pangasinan.

When she turned centenarian, it was a big family gathering in a top resort here.

A family album has her photo blowing candle of her chocolate cake when she turned 103 last month.

Despite her age, she still manage to attend regular worship service every Thursday at the Iglesia Ni Cristo chapel near their residence.

Asked again about her wish in life, she said, again with a laugh, “To live forever!” (Tita Roces)

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