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just how well do i know meself ? let me count the FIRSTS

Filed under: general — admin @ 6:20 am

First…

1. word I said (aside from ‘mama’ and ‘dada’[9 mos. old; according to momsy]): BUTTER
2. aklat pambata na binasa without help (3 and 1/2yrs. old): ANG PAGONG AT ANG MATSING & RUMPELSTILTSKIN
3. academic book I read (age 6): Noli Me Tangere[in book form but in komiks version though]
4. sine na pinanood sa sinehan: WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
5. sakay ng eroplano: age 3 Manila to Lisbon
6. crush: RONALD; love: R.D.T.
7. Frenchkiss: an Argentinian rugby player named Walter in a Mc Donald’s parking lot in Malibu
8. real income: 26,000 pesos for appearing in a PLDT commercial (almost 2 decades ago)
9. car: a blue hatchback ford escort
10.CD I bought: James Taylor’s Greatesr Hits
11.book I bought myself (age 12) from money I had earned as tagabunot ng puting buhok ng lolo ko: Greek Mythology by Edith Hamilton
12.time I saw a transexual: 1988 during my 1st semester in a community college in L.A. (he/she was my sexual psych. prof.)
13.famous person I met: Steven Spielberg (in a chili cookfest in Malibu)
14.subject na ibinagsak: Spanish 3 (coz along with it i was taking advanced french, advanced japanese, and intermediate bahasa; plus the teacher hated me)
15.time I lived solo: age 20 in L.A.
16.pet: a german shepherd named Apollo (I was 6)
17.time nagsuka dahil sa nerbiyos at pagkadismaya: when cornell denied my gradschool application
18.bundok na inakyat: Mt. Olympus
19.contest I won: Spelling Bee in Grade 3 (the winning word(s): cheshire cat)
20.time I had sex: I’m not telling
21.thing na ginagawa pag-gising sa umaga: look at the time
22.time na nalasing (ginebra at calamansi baby!): My 18th birthday
23.dish I cooked for my husband: fried spam and baked vegetarian ziti
24.regalo from luiji: a kaleidoscope and a pocket-size planisphere
25.time I experienced sexual harassment: age 19, I was applying for a job in a tv station and a famous newscaster made passes (that dirty oLd yucK-yuCk mAn!).
26.job (only lasted 3 months): in charge of visa documentation in my aunt’s travel agency
27: thing/happening that I was able to remember as an infant which had happened during my infanthood *are you getting it?* (both my parents can verify it): I ate a small piece of paper and choked on it; I was only 7 or 8 months old but I remembered remembering it so vividly.
28. root canal: January 1997
29. weird friend (we’re both 5 then): a girl named angie who liked to eat vick’s vaporub and pronounced the letter ’s’ as letter ‘k’, for example: ‘popsickle’ nagiging ‘popkickle’, ‘paso’> ‘pako’, ‘grape juice’ > ‘grape juk’ etc.
30.expensive piece of clothing I bought: a donna karan leather coat
31.learned how to drive at 16
32.heartache: age 7 when my pet kitty Muninay died - she was accidentally run over by my kuya while driving his gocart in our garahe
33.time I tried to eat natto it came out the moment it went in, literally
34.song I really liked: My Sweet Lady by John Denver
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10 years ago

Filed under: general — admin @ 7:59 pm

muka akong lalake.

The transexual.

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Filed under: general — admin @ 2:39 am

3 different ways to put on the obi

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Filed under: general — atinna @ 6:54 am

Noriko san is one of my students in our local recreation center’s adult literacy program where I volunteer once a week teaching 3 classes on Tuesday mornings. She’s a licensed Kimono teacher and very active except for the occasional complaint of lower back pain and hot flushes. She dances the Hula (I tried to recruit her to my Flamenco class but she said it’s not good to learn two different kinds of sayaw at the same time or you’ll mess up the steps of both) , drives a red convertible RX7 Mazda (she borrows from her husband), is into organic farming (I get regular supply of fertilizer-free herbs and vegetables for free), and, currently taking voice lessons because she wants, also, to be a ‘chanson chanteuse’(by that I meant she wants to sing French ballads French-style, and that’s what they particularly call it in Japan - ‘chanson’). Now how cool is that? With two grown sons both of whom now living on their own as one has just recently moved out of their family abode, she refused to succumb to that proverbial ‘empty-nest syndrome’. As if the 24 hours of the day is not enough for her to do the things that she wants to do; it’s true, it’s true na mabilis ang oras at kulang minsan once you find the things that you want to do.

She’s one of my idols.

That red kimono that she let me wear, according to her, was the kimono she had worn when she had first met her husband in an “omiai” or pre-arranged first meeting of a prospective ‘couple-to-be’. She was 23 years old when the said meeting happened and her husband was 25; to this day they’re still together living blissfully in a huge traditional Japanese house with lots of sliding doors and a sprawling garden that smells of herbs, vegetables, orchids, bonsais, and strange looking gourds.

The two other women in the picture are also my students. The one in green Kimono is a confectioner specializing in Japanese sweets and the other one (in yellow, what else)is an illustrator/cartoonist.

February 28, 2005

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