August 5, 2010
The next day, after coming back from California, was my cousin’s 9th
birthday. I barely had time to get ready since my grandma didn’t tell us
that my aunt will be picking us up instead. After she told us, my aunt
was at my house 5 minutes later! Damn. That night, i had to pack for
California again! We left in the morning and we were pretty crowded in
the car. We arrived at the hotel and saw a farmer’s market event! We
quickly checked it out but the prices were still pretty expensive. We
ate, watched TV, fell asleep, and at around 4am, my other cousins and
relatives arrived.
August 6, 2010
Ate donuts, Walked downtown, went to t-shirt mart, got a wolf shirt
made, didn’t turn out as i expected, waste of $6, walked some more,
bought a crown necklace, charm bracelet, and my brother’s necklace at
the Jewelry store all for $10. Found this underground skate shop. Moved
to the presidential suite - oh so pretty and huge! activity center - ate
cookies, went to the sauna, worked out, burned 200 calories, got ready
for dinner, went to the house of my cousin’s cousin (TJ, R, T, J). Ate
food, taho, bananacue, filmed my cousin and J singing She Was Mine, TJ
and OE pissed off, ukelele, hang out in the garage, weird awkward
liking, i supposedly look like his gf, mae spilling gossips and stuff.
got filipino shirts, weird dancing, J taught me some chords to songs i
dont even know. asked for phone number but ignored on accident! went
back to the hotel, talked til we fell asleep.
August 7, 2010
went to the beach, lots of rocks on the shore, one hand cartwheel,
sand castles, more donuts, went to the activity center, card games:
speed and BS. Left the hotel, drove another hour and a half to go to a
different hotel. Ranch Market, choco pie, vietnamese food: yummy pork
chop, Settled in and unexpected events (to be written in another blog
post). AHHHHHHHH.
August 8, 2010
Chinatown. Got $20 since i ‘saved the family name’ by performing at
the reunion? Looked through my iPod, claimed she liked it too burrrrr. I
was surprisingly picky today. I didn’t want to buy useless things and i
ended up with just two items. I bought peach nail polish and bargained
for flipflops. Cousin wanted the same shoes as mine, frickn got the same
bangles. Unnecessary explanation of uncommon/different shoes that she
‘would like to wear’ oh shush up. I have those shoes, and you only
thought of those since you looked through fashion styles in my iPod.
Items i got during my trip to california for the past week. (including those i got when i was with another cousin).
August 7, 2010
It was a saturday afternoon, bored and nothing to do while my aunts
and uncles get ready for this big Polilians Reunion. I was wearing
pajamas while playing hand games with cousins. Then my aunt and uncle
were yelling at my 20 yr old cousin for backing out at the last minute.
He said he’s not ready to perform at the reunion. He went to the other
room while the adults get ready. They were still so pissed at him then
my grandma comes in and tells me to go instead. Speechless. I dont have
clothes, I haven’t practiced playing the guitar in a long time, I barely
remember any song chords, and they were about to leave! My cousin,
other aunt, and grandma somehow convinced me and i got ready as fast as i
can. Other girl cousin suddenly wanted to come, bored in the hotel
(since i’ll be leaving), wanted to go outside the hotel, voice shaking?
Then i had to go borrow the guitar capo from my 20 yr old cousin and he
also told me before i left ‘sorry that you had to do this. i know you’ll
do good okay?’ So I looked up an easy song to play and had it on repeat
inside the car. Saw my california cousins, and grandma, and sat beside
them, ate good food, watched them perform: violin, singing, hiphop
dance, band; i performed last and i was losing my voice. Saw my dancing
cousin KC but he was too busy having fun with his dance buddies. Dance
Party! Me, KP, and NT danced. He’d also dance waltz and others. I liked
the upbeat songs and disliked boring line dancing, cha cha, and folk
whatever. We had a dance circle and it grew bigger! Polilian
‘princesses’ joined in, and the escorts, and old people. It was hecka
fun. We sat back down on the other side of the room, and unexpectedly,
this guy took my hand and slow danced with me, he was holding me firmly
too. His sis took a picture of us and i dont even know him yet. Asked if
i spoke tagalog, i said ‘yeah’, asked him if he was born here, he said
‘no’, i said ‘same here’. The song ended, i quickly sat back down. Then
me and my cousins sat on the stage, the guy, EV finally introduced
himself, so did i. Asked if me and NT were friends on facebook, i said
yeah. Asked where i was from, i said A—— and damn he was surprised. Why
do i not live in California? Where fun cousins, people, and parties
exist? Blahblah, more dancing, pictures, cute little kid playing with my
bracelet, went outside the room for awhile with my cousin, then saw EV
walking around the room with one red rose. It was crowded and he lost
sight of us. Me and NT sat back down on the stage. He saw us and sat
next to us. He got back up, picked a white rose from the princess’
bouquet, sat back down. Then he gave NT the newly picked white rose, and
to me the red rose. That was so sweet and we said thanks. I said to NT
‘oh good thing the thorns are gone’ but she looked at hers and the
thorns were still there - (since it was newly picked and he had the red
rose for quite some time now). We danced some more, left the roses on
the stage and when we returned, this lady picked it up and returned it
to the bouquet! EV saw it too but he left cuz he had to perform and play
the drums again. He came back, hugged us since he said he was leaving.
Me and NT decided to take the roses back and quickly ran off outside the
room. A few moments later, we saw EV again but with the roses again. I
guess he was looking for us. He quickly gave the roses and i showed him
the other rose that we took back. Then he left for real. Blahblah
pictures with KC and his friends, he hit me with his tie and said ‘cuz
you’re leaving for A—- tomorrow urhhh’. Walking out, he hit me with his
suit thing and said ‘uh aren’t you forgetting you’re guitar?’ darn, i
went back and they followed. After party, snacks, hugs and goodbyes. So
tired. But so hyped up. Unexpected Moves and Sweet Actions. I loved this
night. And to think i wasn’t even supposed to go to this reunion. And
I’ve been telling NT, KC, and KP that i wasn’t going and there i was. Im
actually glad this all happened.
The next day, checked my fb and he friend requested me already! His
dp was of him holding a red rose! We also found him in the program
booklet and his pic was looking all pro and model-like. my cousins were
so hyped up lol. When i arrived home in AZ, he uploaded pics from the
reunion and the first picture was of him and me when we slow danced.
