so what has been happening to me the last 2 weeks you may ask..well let's see
APSS
that is an interesting story in itself.
16th..we had practice at joy's house to use the mirrors. i asked ronnie to make his killer spaghetti. everyone loved it. cousin came to rehearsal to run things with joy..which never happened. trish didn't show up to rehearsal so cousin took her place so that devin would have a partner. also just in case trish bailed out then we would have someone to step in. geez jan got on my nerves..actually she got on just about everyone's nerves. she is such an OA type person. she hurt her ankle and she was sooo dramatic about it. i wish her and charles would lay off each other long enough to rehearse. they have to touch or hold each other every 5 minutes or they might die..sheesh. got stuff done..without jan.
18th..ok here's my long ass story about this day.
the poles we had to use were ones that my dad got us. they were 10ft tall huge ass black pvc pipes. they were flimsy in the middle and hard to control. then james said that usd said that we could borrow their bamboo poles. we were suppose to pick them up this morning around 9am. joy was going to come down so we can pick them up. i over slept. not to mention that joy had a fever that she had gotten on wednesday and still couldn't break. so i was trying to find people so that i could pick up the tacoma from uncle tony's house and still have my car with me in pq. finally around 1-ish i got a hold of mikey. so he went with me to southside to pick up the truck. we dropped of my car at my house then called up the people from usd who had taken the poles home for us. so mikey and i head down towards usd to pick them. the directions given to us have us take the 8 west and exit morena blvd. the directions were sooooo screwy that we found ourselves at mesa college. so we drive back to where we were and found the streets we needed to find but not on the correct side that we were told. oh well. we finally found the damn apt building. when we got there they only had 2 poles. we need 4. so after we got the poles in truck i call james and tell him that i only have 2 poles. so he calls his contact from usd and they give up permission to enter their office and look for other poles. so mikey and i go to the campus and search the office. they have extra poles in their office except their poles were 10+ feet and were skinnier than the poles that we had borrowed. so that was no help to us. so i call james back and tell him that. so i notice the time and tell mikey that i need to haul ass home since people will be arriving at my house in about an hour for our apss meeting, then have rehearsal afterwards. luckily i haul ass since about 5 minutes after arriving phuong arrives at my house, then joy francisco arrives within minutes of phuong.
so then everyone starts arriving for the meeting. so we have the meeting. joy and trish are trying hard not to go off on james. they make points known about their disappointment in him with his lack of help on this function but contain themselves. i'm proud of them for that. so after the meeting everyone eats my mom's tacos. they like those too.
rehearsal time. cousin and rich come to help just in case trish didn't show up. joy is with hopstar checking on a site so she comes really late. jan is still a baby about her ankle. and she can't be too baby-ish since everyone knew that her and charles spent all day at the ontario mills mall walking around. but charles babies her anyway. trish picks up the routine really quickly. i knew she would. we try having james and rj tap to get use to it and in the process they smack charles foot and tear skin off his foot. gross. needless to say practice ended soon after.
20th..we practice at my house again. we eat hot dogs this time. cousin and rich don't come down since they don't need to anymore. it is decided that joy won't dance with cousin binasuan. cousin prefers it that way anyways since then no one will know if she messes up or not. ronnie and aziel come with joy to rehearsal. aziel tries to help out giving hints and stuff to the dancers. it helps. we finished the choreography. now it's just a matter of perfecting.
21st..i spend all afternoon at joy and ronnie's house working on stuff for tinikling. ronnie gets 4 white pvc pipes and wraps them with wood grain contact paper. they actually look like wood. they are stronger than the ones my dad got. joy and i work on rerecording the music for tinikling with me clacking 2 sticks together trying to keep the tempo since there are times that the music gets covered by the audience from the performance. finally got that done with.
22nd..it's the night before the show. we practice as much as we could. rj was at work and joy was at school. it was decided that we wouldn't close the poles when the fast part started. the dancers know the choreography but get self-conscious when the poles are involved. i wish they could do it with the poles but they have come a long way in such a small amount of time.
23rd..show time
well after class i went to joy's and met up with cousin and rich. the 4 of us went to school. we chilled for awhile. joy and i stayed down by the dome and cousin and rich looked around the campus. i got my APSS shirt- "don't run madapa ka" (don't run, you might trip) heheh. after awhile joy and i headed up to founder's plaza to look for cousin and rich. we found them in front of the coffee kiosk. it turned out that rich's cousin rich's ex-girlfriend Dannika works at the coffee kiosk. she's a student at CSUSM. then i got a call from my dad that he was by the dome so i told him to come up and meet with us. which he did. he came to watch and take pictures. i know he was excited that i was doing something like pasacat again. especially since he's become so FOB on us lately. anyhoo..so we all went down to the dome. our dj/mc was dj marlino. we had venders from who's your daddy clothing, higher ground boba roachcoach (they have awesome oreo chocolate fudge boba) and teamnacu (john joseph's clothing line). so we started the show. first was alex domingo and mike fernandez(mchs alum) who sang the national anthem. then afterwards cousin sang the philippine national anthem..go cousin!! then right after she sang she danced binasuan. her picture was taken by North County Times and she was on the front page of the san marcos, vista and carlsbad editions. then we had our guest speaker arnell dimaandal formerly of kusi. i listened to the beginning of his speech then went to the back of the dome to help out the dancers practice. when we got back to the front altermode (patrick's band) was performing and did a couple of songs. then we were on. that was interesting. it started off ok, then before the fast part even started the mess ups started. but it's all good. that was the 1st time that all 8 of us were performing at the same time. this was the first time that both sets of poles were in use. they did good considering. after us was squids of fury a bboy group. then was an emcee named ethnic decent. then altermode finished the day. we had raffles throughout the whole thing. ironically most of the officers were the winners. michael, trish, joy, and anna were winning most of the prizes. mark de leon, arian, somebody named marcy and some other guy won but everything else was won by officers. fricken mike won like 4 times. sheesh. but all and all it was a good thing.
after all that i took joy, cousin and rich out to thank them for taking part in it with/for me. we went to tony roma's on restaurant row. we had fun there. we were laughing and joking and telling stories. it was cool. afterwards we went to joy's and played with the cats and watched my pictures that we took on the tv. then we watched joy's video that she took at the show. that was interesting.
jasmine
well we celebrated jasmine's 1st bday yesterday. of course it was boring down there. but what else is new. they had a huge ass astrojump there though. when they were hitting 2 of the 3 pinatas jac, naning and i went inside the astrojump. it was huge. it would fit adults no problem. auntie azon wanted to go in there but she didn't want to get her pants dirty. john and naning got cell phones now. we were playing with them. they had some good food like chili rejeno and beef and broccoli and such. and yet i spent more time eating the ham and cheese sandwiches. we left a couple of hours after getting there.
marc and kristina saga
went down to marc's house today to drop off the truck and kristina was there. she pulled out a picture of marc and eileen and asked me what was she up against. then she finally admitted that she likes marc. that was cool. we joked around for awhile then we ate dinner. while we were eating kristina and i were talking about her and marc. we were out of earshot of marc since he was sitting at the dinner table and kris and i were at the counter eating. i just told her that to watch out for marc. he likes to be the center of attention and not do all the work that is involved with being in a relationship. kristina said that he makes her happy and that it's a good thing since she's been down in the dumps lately. i'm glad my cousin can do something productive with himself. hope things work out for them.
well that's the last 2 weeks for me. hope you enjoyed my journey..
til we meet again.
