nekked!

so i went to the nude beach in vancouver called wreck beach for the first time last week. it's such a beautiful beach! remind me to take you if you ever come and visit me, and provided that the weather is good. it was so much less crowded than the local beaches, and that really was refreshing. plus, the area has some historicity (is that a word? well it is now!) to it. back during the war, we feared that we could possibly be attacked, being on the pacific and all. so there were three big guns placed up above the beach level (around where our museum of anthropology is), and a couple lookout towers on the actual beach. it's really cool.

i can't really tell you much about the naked people though. i was busy walking around looking down because there are a ton of big rocks just waiting to turn your ankle for you. but when i DID look up, i saw an awful lot of women with those ugly banana shaped tits. i know i have far from the best tits in the world, but i'm sorry, they were quite gross. no real nice boobies were hanging out (pardon the pun!) that day. i also saw a lot of big ol' burly men, with itty bitty wee wees. the younger, fitter men were either too far out towards the water or sunbathing on their stomachs so i couldn't really get a good look at their packages. aww shucks. but i must mention that there was this one guy who looked pretty relaxed, sleeping sprawled out on a big log, with the largest penis i've ever seen. it was just laying there on top of his right thigh. it was easy 6 inches long. but enough about that.

food... yummm

on friday, jason and i went to a barbecue at one of our brazilian student friend's homestay house. it was so sweet. he had a pool and a jacuzzi. this is not a common luxury for us vancouverites, because it's usually rainy or cold 9 of the 12 months of the year, so most of us spend our extra cash on hard-top convertibles, or trips to warm and sunny places. lucky for us it's been sunny for 3 weeks straight so this bbq came at the perfect time. we didn't do much except for chill by or in the pool all night, but it was all good. eating barbecued steak, chicken, and sausages was fine by me!

mmmm... more food!!

saturday was jp's (my godbrother) birthday party. it was another barbecue, this time at a park in new wesminster (for my cali friends, picture oakland, but with more apartments than tenement housing). the amount of time it takes to take our skytrain from downtown vancouver to there is about the same amount of time it takes for the BART to take you from downtown san fran to the second oakland stop (if i recall correctly, it's the west oakland stop). funny, isn't it? anyhow, me and char chilled and ate steak and rice, and reminiced with our godsiblings. we are all pretty much around the same age, and we often wonder when we get older, if we'll be running the family barbecues as much as our parents run them right now. it's funny, but we all see it as a kind of torch that will be passed to us, the younger generation, to preserve our filipino culture through family traditions. it's really interesting to think about, cause we're all canandian, and canadians are notorious for not having a specific culture. that's what we get for having a multicultural society rather than a melting pot.

and you'd think the food would stop there. that same evening, i went to sun sui wah, a great chinese seafood restaurant, for cin's 24th birthday. i gotta say, if you love seafood and chinese food, go to a really good chinese seafood restaurant. it's delicious! and as odd as it may sound, jellyfish tastes AWESOME. i can't describe how it's cooked, but it's not as gross as you'd first think. it's so delicious. i had such a good time that evening, mostly because i was hanging with people i don't see very often anymore. but regardless of our busy lives, we never lose touch. it's so great.

all for you
so last thursday was supposed to be janet jackson's first concert of her all for you tour. it was to be here in our very own GM place arena. she rented the whole place out for most of june so she could practice before the tour started. but it ended up that the concert was postponed until monday the 9th. regardless of the delay, it was SO worth it! this woman is amazing. her choreography was perfect for every dance number, and her singing was so on key it gave me chills. and the place was full up til the rafters. it was a great concert.

and of course, how could i rave about it without raving about 112? these guys are the best guy r&b group i've heard live since the days of boyz2men. sarah and i went to their first performance out here and it was beautiful (wouldn't you agree craig? ;op) and their second apperance was just as great. if ever you get a chance, check them out live. it's so worth it.

until i write again...