. . .totally forgot to mention i bought a brand new car. . .finally traded-in the 1996 civic honda ex with the broken moon roof, leaking tube of clutch fluid, devastated visors, and various other deficiencies. . .to get my fucking fabulous 2005 scion xB - dark blue onyx and totally cool. .. hip but classic and cool. . .like me!. . .lol. . .also went to vegas last mon/tues and blackjack is my new favorite game. . .busy as hell at work as usual. . .more later. . .on my way to barangay mardi gras party in the great san fernando valley. . .hey - got new underwear from ross and totally awesome new beads from party on la cienega. . .how can today saturday - clean hair all day - be anything but absolutely and totally fabulous?. . .xoxoxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxooxox

. . .saw constantine at a sag screening with sumi this morning - entertaining but a little corny.. .on my way to a gapsn party at pig'n whistle in hollywood - should be fun. . .tomorrow is dim sum with pat olsen who i have not seen in ages. . .and monday is VEGAS BABY VEGAS. . .back late tuesday. . .greg and i are staying at da hawaiian-style CALIFORNIA hotel but jeanette and noel are at the fabulous BELLAGIO. . .damn excited. . .hope you are all having wonderful weekends!!!. . .xoxoxo. . .

. . .fucking xanga. . .now i know what eminems revenge would talk about when he said the damn site wipes out a whole entry. . anyways. . .okay i will retype the damn blog. . .just finished deleting a bunch of subscriptions since i want to balance out them to subscribers. . .oops got 7 minutes left. . .gotta make this fast. . .surfing and stole some pics. . here are lovely tulips:

. . .and lovely jordan segundo who also went to farrington high school in honolulu. . .need to get him to sing at my benefit dinner in may. . does anyone have a direct connect?. . .

. . .and doubly lovely orlando bloom. . .ahh the legolas days. . .

. . .waiting for the club kids to go home and give me back my street parking. . .wonderful week at work although i took monday off. . .but finally starting to catch up on work. . .hope all is well with everyone and yours. . .xoxoxo. . .

. . .another week. . .another week. . .what can i tell ya?. . .finally feeling like i am back to my old self and old office and old routine. . .yikes!. . .oh well. . .here are some photos i have been meaning to put on the blog for posterity's sake. . .enjoy. . .have a great weekend everyone. . .xoxoxo. . .

. . .the play. . .

brianne the hair designer and i at the "box office" - actually a rattan/bamboo dry bar that was originally made in the philippines that is part of a whole set that we have in our parking lot. . .oh yeah, with my old man half-glasses too. . .wow i'm so old now. . .

. . .but i moisturize which keeps the skin younger-looking, yes?. . .

. . .this is yey and me. . .she is cool and works for the mayor's office. . .my manang. . .

. . .this is natsuko ohama as imelda marcos in dogeaters. . .really beautiful terno that is actually borrowed from mrs. benito. . .

. . .dana lee as senator avila and esperanza catubig as daisy avila. . .really cute "bed" that they make out of four benches, some poles, and fabric. . .

. . .christine avila as leonor ledesma and dom magwili as general lesdesma. . .end of play and really emotional. . .i cried at first table reading. . .such the catholic in me still. ..

old sipa staff photo. . .circa may 2003. . .

. . .off to seattle in november for my paternal grandmother's funeral. . .this is all my daddy's remaining 6 brothers and sisters (two are deceased). . .

. . .i know this is a little morbid but i hear it is a filipino tradition to take photos of the deceased. . .my apo tasing. . .anastacia corpus corpuz. . .

. . .this montage of my grandma's life was done just the night before by my cousin alicia.  .

. . .just a few of the some 30 first cousins:  carol, me, manang nena, manang marilyn, and alicia. . .

. . .old photo on plane to provo utah with new americorps*vista assistant. . .and his strange frat brother in the air force that he just met on the flight over.  .

. . .in altadena a few months back for a gapsn get-together. . .just one of hundreds since 1989. . .tim, rex, and i forget his name. . .sanjay's house is cool . . .

. . .maraming salamat po. . .xoxoxo. . .

. . .FYI - I AM SUCH A LAZY ASS. . .went to sumi haru's retirement party at city hall right after work on friday then went to play a little poker and eat the fabulous great daikoku ramen noodles in little tokyo with cousin greg. . .but then slept and went comatose all saturday which was okay cause i planned it.  .but i wanted to go to work to catch up majorly yesterday sunday but of course could not get myself out of the fucking apartment so just ordered shitty domino's pizza (will i ever learn that pizza hut rules and domino's sucks???). . .then since everyone cancelled on lunch today in gardena had a hella of a time getting out today.  ..but finally did and paid the damn comcast bill online. . .and now wasting the rest of the time on this card at the sunset labrea internet cafe. . .okay maybe a movie. . .maybe a good meal. . .maybe buy a porno at circus of books. . .lol. . .hope everyone's mlk weekend went more productive than mine. . .so much laundry to do. . .so many grant reports to write. . .YIKES!!!!!!.  .. xoxoxo.  . .

. . .lifted the top photo from trancemikey because it IS so cool . . .and just added the bottom one from tommy. . .just getting back into the groove of things at work. . .lunches, meetings, reports, more work, lots of planning. . .played poker with my cousin last weekend that was really cool. . .saw the l.a. lights show at the natural history museum that was cool . ..gonna see body worlds tomorrow. . .starting up again with barangay the gay flip group and gapsn the gay asian group. . .lots going on as usual. . .hope all is well people. . .xoxoxo. . .

. . .here is tom. ..he so cute. . .and think he so funny. .. SUCH a florida homo. .. xoxoxo. . .

. . .LOVED these images. . .courtesy eminems revenge. . .really enjoying my holiday rest. . .hope you all had an awesome xmas and all the best of wishes for 2005!!!.  .xoxoxo. . .

hey people. . .sorry i have been so incommunicado these past couple months. . .been so crazed ovewhelmed fucking busy as hell with producing a play called dogeaters by jessica hagedorn. . .it was a hella process with pre-production and production logistics and selling thousands of tickets. . .but i survived luckily intact. . .the show ran from october 23rd to december 12th so i am still recovering. . .the holidays are kinda just what i needed to relax but they have their own accompanying stresses as well. . .also my paternal grandmother passed away last month during the play run and i took off to seattle to join about a hundred or more of my relatives from honolulu, washington dc, and california for the wake, funeral, etc. . .anyways will definitely post pics of these past few months shenanigans when i get back to work. . .meanwhile, it IS xmas so happy christmas everyone and hope santa has been kind. . .xoxoxo. . .ps please stay in touch as i SO appreciate comments and props and being a part of the xanga community. . .

. . .it was inneresting. . .not worth the hype really. .. awesome visual effects. . .but the story kinda sucked. . .VERY chinese. .. lol. . .perhaps wait for the dvd. . .shoulda seen vanity fair. . .but had to get out of the fucking hot fucking hot house. . .man these santa ana winds suck ass (and not in a good way! lol). . .but the air conditioned internet cafe saves the day. . .totally veg'd yesterday and earlier today. . .but definitely have to go in to work and catch up tomorrow despite the holidaze. . .now looking forward to another vaca in honolulu in early december. . .damn! the fare on hawaiian airlines is dirt cheap $244 roundtrip - what the fuck is up?. . .lotsa blogs about the coming election. . .fuck bush. . vote kerry. . .there IS not other choice. . .xoxoxo. . .ps - here is an old photo found whilst surfing. . .