June 21, 2003

  • . . .okay folks back from america's finest city (the faobulus city of saint diego) and better for it. . .after the early morning longass traffic-plagued 3hour ride from the city of angels. . .it was the surreal experience of watching my nephew (actually first-cousin once removed in american, but nephew in philippine) graduate from elementary school or rather more accurately get promoted to middle school. . .that was cool but surreal - where the hell was MY bigass ceremony 32 years ago. . .lol. . .then after a stuffing at the very popular v.i.p. oriental buffet in chula vista, we all got the bright idea to take the red trolleys on the blue line to the village of seaport (little did we know that we really shoulda transferred to the orange line at 12th & imperial but oh well the walk did us good). . .that little jaunt downtown took up the restoftheday/evening (including a dozen margaritas+ on the rocks) and it was off to bed for the gang. . .then it was to the world of the sea on friday (aka seaworld - former land of pearl-diving and cruising-cute-young-things in the early '80's when mois was gainfully employed amongst the masses!). . .okay so that adventure with 10 members of the corpus/corpuz/egay/casora/anson/mendoza/kimizuka/ogura families took us to the latenight ocean fantasea fireworks display and an ultimate stinkyass stateofbeing ready for a shower and the mattress. . .but NO, the day could not totally end unless they dragged my ass to the casino viejas featuring a future filipino night and the oddest electronic roulette till 3am in the damn morning eating my $60 in no time flat. . .but after a hasty return and a brief catch of r.e.m., it was off to late breakfast/early lunch with the wonderful LOVES featuring the absolutely cutest marissa @ the world-famous l&l drive inn of national city. . .and it all ends with the 5, yes 5 fucking hours of travel back to this wonderful lalaland and my existence in my hollyweird hellhole. . .god bless us all. . .definitely calling it an early nitey nite. . .tomorrow beckons a solemn commemoration of a passionate, caring, filipina community leader that will be missed by many and is loved by all. . .my dearest linda mabalot, rest in peace. . .