a good cause

boy, is it ever hard being on a dragon boat team. it's like you put in so much time and effort, and despite it being a fun athletic and social activity, we are almost always in the red... too bad fundraising is the only way to bring us back up to 0. it gets harder and harder to get a turn out for the "club nights" we host. do i ever wish that people who just wanna go out and have a good night of dancing would just come to me and say "wow! would i EVER love to go out dancing and at the same time support your team!"...
verbally works, but if you holler via the comment link, that works too...

thursday, june 30th
plush nightclub
12$

holler atcha girl... if you feelin' this yo

when will it end?!!

when i wake up monday mornings, i usually don't freak out that the week is gonna suck like most people. i only work 4 days a week so really, it's already 1/4 of my work week on its way out. so by the end of tuesday, i'm pretty happy cuz wednesday and thursday are a breeze. but this week is going SO slowly. i feel like even though it's the last week of school, it won't end! we're still finalizing reportcards. we're still testing kids on their math skills. we're still trying to get back all the library books the kids haven't returned yet. at least the weather's pickin up.

a shout out to my kuya gary

why does kuya always seem to have to put up all the "bad" photos?.. it's like he doesn't think the good ones are enough! anyways, as much as i'd love to tell you how much my kuya stinks, i won't. he's still a pretty nice guy. like this whole weekend that just passed, i thought he was gonna be a complete diva. not like he's gay, he just likes to be the "prince" when he's up here. i mean, my mom loves him so much that what ever he wants to eat, she'll cook it. chicken adobo, particularly. but yeah, he wasn't as bad as i thought he might be. and plus he let me take photos of his performance on saturday night. i love takin photos. it was a great opportunity for me... i've never shot more than 200 photos in a two hour time frame. that was pretty fun. so yeah, i guess kuya is cool cuz he lets me play with his toys.

small world

so, my cousin and his wife came up to visit this past weekend from san francisco because their dance group, likha, was performing with one of vancouver's filipino dance groups, kababayang pilipino. i must say i had a really good time meeting and hanging out with all of kuya's dance friends. they're a bunch of cool cats. so are the kp dancers... and i even knew a handful of them already! i guess that's what happens when you're filipino and live in vancouver. if you don't already know them, you will. so that wasn't so tripped out, cuz it was kinda expected. but what was tripped out was that one of the guys from likha actually knew one of my best friends... and they had even kicked it together at one point in time (to my understanding). but yeah, i guess it works the same for them: they're both from the bay area.
now the pressure's on for me to join kp. i know kuya wants me to join likha... but i think my commute would eventually end up taking its toll on me. ;op

argh!

so i was having a good chat last night with a friend who will remain nameless (now and forever) and despite our downs and ups, we still try to see through it all and embrace each other's differences... yeah who am i trying to fool? i try to embrace his differences and i STILL am the one with the short end of the stick. ANYHOW, i must say it was a really good talk. i really started to understand things about him. and i felt like he was starting to see things from my point of view. no yellin or anything. yeah it was a real kodak moment... too bad he ended up just forgetting what the hell we were talkin about. i swear, if you forget deep, meaningful conversations like that, get your head checked. chances are you're only remembering what you WANT to remember. i don't have time to build upon a friendship when all it ends up being is a figment someone's imagination. and this isn't jus me talkin. anyone who's had a good conversation and then the person you were talkin to says "i forgot everything we jus talked about" would feel this way too. don't waste your time, there's a lot more you can do with your life... like getting a cavity filled.

on the other hand...
i did have a really good conversation with another really good friend... and it turned out good. and it's funny cuz if i didn't decide to forward some silly "forward" to her, i don't know if i woulda had that conversation with her today. i must say, not only did i need it, after the retarded one i had with "forgetful jones" last night, but also cuz she and i can relate really well with our lives right now... i mean, both of us aren't in great situations at all, but at least we both see it in the same way. it's good to know that someone's there right beside you in the pile of mess, feeling just like you do, instead of being outside lookin in.

conclusion
boys don't listen. take it from me... they're nice to look at and fun to play with... but if you talk to them, somehow the words coming outta our mouths turns into that muffled trumpet sound that charlie brown and his peanuts gang hear coming from all the adults in the cartoon. so unless the guy you talk to likes brass instruments, just don't bother talkin to them.