MANILA - There are still people who live for more than a century despite the myriad of diseases and health problems bombarding the Philippines.

Yesterday, Lola Petra Sanggalang Agulto celebrated her 104th birthday in Quezon City from the comfort of her flower-patterned hospital bed. Although bedridden, she can still speak and remember details. She even remembers that she was born on a Wednesday, June 17, 1905.

Agulto said she felt some pains around her body, parts of which are riddled in liver spots, and she also suffers from swollen feet. These are bearable, she said, if she gets to suck on candy. She was reportedly confined at the hospital just this year.

Agulto was widowed in 1975 and jokingly said she is now too old for other suitors. She has 3 children and numerous grandchildren.

Asked what her secret to long life is, she said: "I don't know, I just lived to this age." Report from Jorge Carino, ABS-CBN News.