it's the end?
no. i've got more junk to clean out of my email than i thought. found this entry... yes it's still about california ;op
enjoy!...

from the bay to l.a.
so saturday started off with driving from my kuya's place in daly city to modesto... man that was a long way. for those up here that don't know, it's kinda like driving from my house in vancouver to mission... yeah it took that long. but we made it... we got to ron's place at about 2am and two of his cousins and his brother were still awake, waiting for us. we unloaded our purchases, grabbed a set of clothes and our toothbrushes, then next thing you know, we were all piled into the van by 230am and headed for someplace near long beach...
getting to sleep was a little bit tricky. there were 9 of us in a minivan that holds 7. at first you'd think that 2 more people wouldn't be too bad. but for a 6 hour drive, it gets a little bit uncomfortable... long story short, i found myself very comfortable sleeping on the floor. we all awoke to a very brisk stop somewheres along our trip. we were rushed out by ron's mom telling us to "pick which one you like"... turns out we were right in front of a filipino bakery in delano. so we all piled out and walked in, excited to eat some pandesal or maybe even some ensaymada if there was any. i looked around and saw a bunch of breads and things i didn't recognize short of the pandesal. so we all just pointed to this bread that had the shape of a cinnamon twist, but instead of cinnamon was full of sugar. we were all a bit sleepy still, but wondering what time it was. the sun was coming out and it looked like it was going to be a really nice day... turns out it wasn't even 530am!! needless to say, we ate our bread and fell back asleep. we were at uncle richard's house by 830 in the morning and the house was already busy with everyone cooking food and setting up for the party. later in the morning, the house and food was blessed, and by then everyone was ready to go to the mall! well, at least "the kids" were. we really needed some walking of some sort after a long trip of sitting so we headed out.
we did a bit more shopping, then we all decided to watch a movie that night... too bad we all wanted to see different movies, but it was all good. sonder, ron and i went to watch episode 2... that is one cool movie! i think i'll take rafael to it. anyways, the rest of that night involved all of us being too tired to do anything else except for making fools of ourselves and karaoke-ing til the wee hours of the morning... good times!

bling-bling
ever been to a vietnamese mall? it's a lot like going to aberdeen or yaohan in richmond, but it's vietnamese instead of chinese or japanese. all i can say that is very distinct about it is that there was a heckuva lot of jewelry! it was like in disney's aladdin when aladdin walked into the cave of wonders and saw all the riches... and there were diamonds everywhere! ron's mom bought this really nice bracelet and was looking for a pinky ring, but she couldn't find one. now that i think about it, i shoulda looked harder for something out there because i can't think of anyplace here that could compare. oh well, just another excuse for me to go back!
to rest my eyes from all that glare, sonder suggested we look at the cds. we were browsing through the mixes and ron came across this one cd and asked me what i thought of the songs... i thought it looked good, so we got it... turns out it was this mix cd we were bothering a guy at this one shop in the great mall about. see, there was a store in great mall that was playing this tight mix. we were asking the guy at the cash what cd it was and he told us his friend burned it for him. we asked what the album was and he told us it was from his friend... i was getting a bit irritated cuz the mix was pretty darn good and i wanted it. so ron was all "i'll give you 20 bucks for it" but the guy said "no." so we were all drove (heheh that's slang for "upset") but we couldn't do a thing about it. so we left it alone. then we found it at the vietnamese mall obviusly burned from its original... and we bought it for 5 bucks.
YAY for cd burners and the desire to make a quick buck!!