i'm going (going) back (back) to cali (cali)...
so apparently there's a car show in san mateo this saturday. so since my little sister is into her "car model" phase, she's going to be there... as will her oldest sister (yes, that would be me, but i'm not in that "car model" phase... just in the "older sister who will kick your butt if you get too close to her" phase.... sometimes it's just hard to grow out of i guess). we're leaving on thursday night to drive down... i think i have the proper directions: from my house, drive west 3 blocks to oak street, then head south for about 20 hours, then we're there! i guess if anyone i know in california is around that area on saturday til tuesday, email me before i leave... i'd love to see you there!

when i grow up...
i want to be a double agent. or something to that effect. i don't have a particularly quick wit, nor am i exceptionally creative when i'm put on the spot, but i'd really like to pretend that i'm doing the right thing and think that i'm pleasing everyone... and maybe earning some money off of my "good deeds."
see, ideally i'd like for everyone to get whatever they wanted. but we all know that that's not possible. for every one thing that someone wants, there are like a dozen more who won't get what they want... it's sad but true. so the only way that everyone could be happy is if everyone believed that they were getting what they wanted. but i guess that might not work too well if i trusted someone by telling them my secret, and that in turn makes them completely distrust me and never think i'm sincere... then nobody would ever trust/believe me. darn, i knew there was a downside. maybe i should just go into politics or something...

my neck, my back
oh my GOODNESS i am in pain!! too much dancing for someone who was supposed to be the dj... note to self: runners are always better than heels to dance in, no matter how silly you might look! annie's wedding went well yesterday and everyone's still talking about it. i had such a good time that i didn't even have the strength to take my hair down (yep, it's still up in its do!). there wasn't a single horrible thing that coulda happened to sabbotage the day. and even though i couldn't mingle as much as i wanted to, i had fun. too bad the groom's side wasn't as extroverted as our side... they knew how to get their drink on, but i guess no matter what i played, they couldn't get down with their bad selves, short of the father of the groom and one of the nieces. it was kinda funny cuz our family SO took over the floor... we took over the whole thing almost! it was great. even the crew (we were on a little cruise ship for the reception) said that this was one of the better receptions they've ever hosted... not plain at all. well, you get about 60 filipinos, a lot of cheap wine, put them all in a contained environment, throw in a little bit of classic 80s and a lot of old school and hiphop and what do you get?... the always entertaining typical filipino party... we had titas getting tipsy, titos getting their freaks on, and us kids just laughing so hard that we all left with a cut up set of abs. any of you reading this that weren't there, hit me up... i'll invite you to the next big function... and this time i'll make sure to include kool and the gang in my playlist, and to throw a big lechon in the mix.

i've stopped moving... for now...
so it's been forever since i last wrote. i slack a bit, but not without good reason. after cuba was a week and a half of getting things all figured out before my next trip. i organized annie's bridal shower 4 days before leaving for cuba, then i got back and figured more of it out before it went down the friday before i left for long beach, california. i had good revues from the ladies who attended the shower, even though i think i could have done better. no matter. everyone left the party with lots of happy, if not completely hilarious memories.

summertime in the LBC...
so my dragon boat team made it to long beach with barely enough tolerance of each other to last the weekend. what a weekend. the few of us who made it down on thursday probably had the best time of them all... we partied at the yard house that night, friday we went to newport beach to play in the ocean, then we had a practice, a dinner (the first time we had a real full meal since we left vancouver) and then clubbing at laguna beach (club m). saturday we raced... art and i were looking at butts to see if there were any to see. not much, 'cept for this one guy who worked as security. he was rockin' his blue jeans like i've never seen! i swear, i really got it bad for how pants look on a guy. the next day i actually spoke with him for a bit, and he was cool. our team ended up winning silver in our division :o) yay us! thank goodness i didn't have to resort to violence and force to get myself some hardware to bring back home.
well, the next day the team all went their seperate routes home. i on the otherhand made my way out to modesto.

modesto?!
i know, who the heck lives out in modesto?! well, ron's mom and brother for one thing. they picked me up from the train station. i didn't realize how not bad the train would be to take it for such a long trip. i even made a friend. friendly, polite, good conversationalist... exactly what i needed on that 6 hour trip. well, sonder and his mom picked me up and we went to their place in ceres. it's so hot out there. the next day we went to the bay... sonder and i went to the winchester mansion, and we were going to hit the beach, but turns out that we were too lazy to beat the traffic so we watched goldmember instead. what a horribly nasty movie! it was great. the first 2 were better, but i did really like the cameos in this one. and of course the musical part dr. evil and mini-me had in the jail... that was arranged by dr. dre so i hear. crazy.
thursday consisited of me and sonder driving out to the city before picking up sabby and cin from the airport. that night we kicked it with roel, ray and a few of ron's friends. it was so funny! i think they really miss ron :o). friday we went to gilroy. shopped the outlets for 9 hours. damn we're good. it was just like the last time we went out there, but better! our rental car really carried a lot this time around too. afterwards, we kicked it with eden... mahjong all evening. i miss that guy... he's so funny. saturday we went to sausolito and took pictures. we took pictures on sunday at coit tower and we did a bit of shopping too... but i took off to meet with david in oakland while the girls hit fisherman's wharf. i ended up going to sacramento for the evening, then stopping by in davis before heading back to the bay. it was cool. monday was the great mall (after i got kinda lost getting there... but we got it after a while... note to self: hang a right on serra). so we shopped til we had to fly back home. it was a fun but i can't believe the whole trip is gone already. and the worst part is that i couldn't get to see kuya. this is the first time i've ever gone to cali and not seen him. :o(

i won't stop, cuz i can't stop
so you'd think that it'd be just a daily routine i gotta get back into once all my trips were done. i would love to have one, but my sister's getting married in 5 days. and i have so many things to do. so simple, yet so much. well, we'll see how all that goes. wish me luck... i hope i won't lag anymore about updating my blog...