god bless the philippines

this is what my vacation has come to.. a screeching halt. my siblings all left today.. and peter (19) and i are left alone to defend ourselves against the parents. yesterday they began their unexpected manual labor portion of the agenda.. err.. and we all had to clean this house that we are renting out. i was in charge of scrubbing the moldy refridgerator. disgusting. and my next chore is to scrub the frikkin rOOf.. which also has black crupp on it.. and of course anything else they realize we need to do.. peter and i are left to finish it all thanks to the sibs! those jerks.

even more unfortunate... i am once more hanidcapped for a while. i sprained my ankle playing tennis yesterday and continued to play and continued to go out in heels. i tRied to dance too... ooh.. now i am suffering. maybe thIs will get me out of the cleaning. plEase tell me yes. because just as i am rEally getting sick of staying home and watching movies, that is all there is left for me to do.

you should have seen hOw i sprained it.. i cant even describe it.. well i can describe it as i was swinging at a ball and threw my whole body flat to the ground except for the front half of my foot (whAAt!? who aRe you?!... i'll agree). it was probably the most clutzy thing i've ever done.. and i'm sure it was hilarious... i was just standing outside myself watching myself take the flailing leap to my death. ohh man. so funny. this girl last nite said i would never fully recover.. i sure as hell hope she was wrong.

i must be thankful tho.. clutzy as i am.. i have not ever had a serious injury. my injuries include...

1. (where would my blog be without a list.. i mean come on!) THIS.. fool and a half.

2. TENDONITIS sophomore year.. need crutches! and couldn't dance for a month or so... that one was not my fault tho.. just came from nowhere (well from dancing a lot)

3. SPRAiNED ANKLE AGAIN... playing tennis aGain// freshman year of higschool... at a tennis match but not while i was playing tennis hahah.

4. how could i forget: not an injury really but the only time i was in the hospital... i stabbed myself with a capillary tube (a long needle-thin glass tube you use in chem lab). ultimate showcase of my stupidity. they were laughing at me in the hospital :( but rightfully so. anyway.. the inch of glass lodge in my elbow skin took seven hours of fishing around before they could get it out.

reasons why i should be in the hospital for life:
1. i am a huge clutz..
2. i played four sports in highschool: rhythmic gymnastics.. field hockey. lacrosse.. and volleyball. (and tennis for one yr)
3. aren't those two things enough??!
4. people think im drunk when i'm not.. partially how i act but also partially bc of how i move ahha
5. snowboarding.. breakdancing. because i'm so good at both..
6. relevant example: i ran straight into this girl once.. full speed. at a lacrosse game. she had set up a pick down the field and i apparently just didnt think it was important to look in front of me when i was running. it was pretty embarassing.
7. essentially.. i try to do all these things that i cant.. and i just throw my body around without regard and by some miracle.. always come out clean.

god bless the philippines.

frankly, I expect boxers. and I do like boxers.. but those guys who still wear briefs (and pull it off) are so cute. BRIEFS

lake vs ocean. for swimming etc, I prefer the pool haha. i hate sand (how it's grimy and gets all over everything) and hate seaweed and am petrified of fish and etc. but i would say ocean if I had to choose. its much more beautiful and I like the waves... and of course beach volleyball yay. OCEAN

shoes vs sandals: i hate shoes. i hate socks. sandals... flipflops. Yes. SANDALS

republican vs democrat: i think i took one of those survey analysis deals once and i was matched with the independents.. but mom says that voting independent is just a waste. i would not tend to agree with that statement but it's sorta true. i was brought up as a democrat so i guess i consider myself a dem. DEMOCRAT until further notice.

florida vs california: cali. florida is too much chachi (how the hell dyu spell chachi?) and retirement. i like the surf (not that I can) and i like the mountains (but i do snowboard) and i like the laid-back chill that California seems to exude... plus arnold schwartzenagger.. awesome. well maybe that hurts it.. CALI.

usa vs europe: europe is definitely cooler. it seems like theres not as much hype over there. i dont like that about the usa. but I dont think I could ever live anywhere else. I think Im too socially attached. USA.. take that back.. PHILIPPINES. im kidding. not a good joke. I really just wanted to say *God Bless the Philippines*

beach vs mountains: this is tough. but I have to say beach. mountains are too assoc with cold. and I cant deal with cold. BEACH.

sunrise vs sunset: hmm both are beautiful. maybe sunsets moreso.. but sunrises remind me of my rebellious youth and those nights when you have so much fun that you just don't stop to sleep. they can be depressing tho,, especially if you have to do stuff the next day. and actually they suck when you are cramming for exams or the like. i gues syou can always stop to appreciate a sunset. and they're pretty romantic. SUNSET

prolife vs prochoice: I dont believe in abortion. I dont. but I think about what I would do if I got pregnant right now and I dont know if i could do it. life would be completely 180. and Id be 'the disgrace' of the family.. that is if I was still considered a paRt of the family. i wish i could say i would be able to welcome whatever life handed to me, but that is a lot and Id like to be able to think about it. PRO-CHOICE.

graphic design vs medicine: the dilemma of my life.

macs vs PCs: honestly, I miss my PC a lot. But we all know I love my Mac. Join the mac scene. MAC

brad pitt vs ben affleck: as if this was ever a contest. BRAD PITT.

britney vs christina: as if you can even compare them anymore. they have both gone crazy. NEITHER

aerosmith vs guns n roses: now Im making shit up. AEROSMITH

simpsons vs south park: whoa. UNDECIDED.

LOTR vs matrix: welp.. I havent seen the matrix trilogy so I cant really answer this one. based on what Ive seen MATRIX.. but I have not seen matrix 2 or 3 and based on what I hear (which is often inaccurate for me but... ) they sucked. plus I love smiegel. LOTR.

road rules vs real world: in terms of what Id want to be on... REAL WORLD... (theyre making those road rules people do some f*ed up shit these days) in terms of what I like to watch... REAL WORLD still.

girls vs boys: not a question of sexuality... just about friends. Ive found that boys are a lot easier to hang out with. I hate the cattiness of girls... and the secretive fickle nature of a lot of girl relat. Sometimes a little to much bullshit involved. the only thing is.. the theory that theres no such thing as close guy/girl relationships where one person is not interested in the other. I have yet to decide on this one.. I would have outright refused the truth in this theory like two yrs ago... but surprisingly a lot of 'friends' really hAve become 'situations' which makes me feel like maybe the theory dOes have some truth to it.

Basketball vs Football: I like watching basketball more. and Ive come to like the baller look too. so BASKETBALL it is.

let me tell you something about my family. we're all about the no bullshitting. i have been in florida for 3 days and all i have to show for it is 3 bad boys viewings 1 sea biscuit 1 freaky friday 1 alex and emma 1 mona lisa smile and a lot of pictionary. that's family time in a nutshell. this is what we all look forward to. this is what all eight of us spend hundreds of dollars to do. go to fla sleep eat and watch movies. now// my parents dID just arrive today and they are variable in how receptive they are to our movie-watching antics (is that correct vocab?) but they got in this afternoon and the current schedule is LOTR 1 tonite LOTR 2 after xmas mass and LOTR 3 xmas evening. the rest of the day probably entails honeybaked ham corned beef hash cheese omelettes and rice. oh and the candy from the xmas gift baskets. one of the kids usually coerces us all to do some physical activity like playing sibling tennis tourneys or the boys will lift weights or we'll all go swimming. we gotta feel worthwhile for an hour at least.. and later this week we'll proabbly venture out of the house.. past the movie theatre/movie rental and iguana mia (terrible mexican cuisine in close prox) and go shopping or do something of that sort. other than that... we're sticking to the homefront for a while. two whole weeks in fact.. any movie suggestions.. make them now. i will have plenty of time to get those all under my belt. i'll tell you tho. my fam is relatively mainstream. i don't think any of thos independent documentary types will be of interest to them. so keep that in mind.

so you're wondering.. are we just not close?!? i mean they seem very antisocial.. no not true. i actually feel really close to my fam. altho we dont chit chat too much.. we all understand eachother and thats cool with me. we're all really similar in that we don't need formalized events (and dont even like em)... ie don't need presents.. xmas trees.. round the circle what youre thank you for's.. etc etc. we just like to sit around and do nothing.. together... and we dO talk and joke.. even tho it seems like we dont do much of it.. we still do. so what do we talk about? well all the kids have our jokes.. which tend to keep us occupied inbetween the times we are playing "i never" or guesstures or pictionary... here are a couple:

1. "TFM" abbrev for Time for Massage.. the longstanding ridiculement (a word?) of all of our torturous days of massaging our father.. which essentially only me and peter have to do now.
2. NYMPHO vs NECRO. the new joke amongst the kids. we were discussing nymphos the other day and older bro is like "dyu even know what a nympho is" to my younger bro.. who responds "yes it's someone who is obsessed with sex." my older brother shoots back with "pekiot (as in PEKE [peter nickname] + Idiot).. it is someone who is scared of dead people." younger bro: "thats a necrophiliac dumbass" if you can imagine how that played out it was hilarious. who doesnt know what a nympho is?
3. TaGAMENt. another new one. three of my siblings have terrible "asian redness" problem that supposedly is remedied by this drug called tagament.
4. any embarassing story: of which we all have at least one to discuss. example: one of my brother's sh*t on my neighbor's carpet in the middle of the day.
5. any other personal news that the whole fam can harass someone about.. ie girlfriends/boyfriends.. things that people are doing for/with their gf/bfs etc etc. example: my brother hitting on 40-yr-old woman named "yellow."

parental faves (that have yet to change for 3+ years):
1. marriage (for those above 30)
2. medschool/grades (for me/peter)
3. work. my bro and sis run the fam business so it is a frequent topic of convo
4. boys.. occasionally just to make sure im not talking to/dating any
5. any filipino gossip that is a lesson to learn by..

my parents keep it short and sweet.. or annoying really. there are certain important things they are really opinionated about and they sure as hell make sure we know what they are. JJ is the only that really escapes this one.. at least for now. but for the rest of us we have gotten used to it and it's usually no big deal. just something to expect from them. lord know i do not like doing apps with them tho.

there. the evangelista family vacation in fla december 2003. remember send me those movie recs. LOTR 1 here i come.

*lord of the rings to those imcompetent as i once was*

help! i changed my template accidentally cua i thought i wanted to change.. but i think i messed up the comments ("shoutouts") part. can someone pls help me fix it?!

xmas list.
- oh wait we dont celebrate xmas.. err that did not mean to be sarcastic.. but my fam doesn't give gifts anymore. too much stress and takes away from the holiday. it is truly much better this way.. for my fam at least.

things to get when i have the money:
- family guy. as much as poss
- other DVDs: dave chappell.. sex and the city.. south park.. super troopers.. FUNKTION DVD.. the beach.. rushmore..
- answering machine?
- digital camera... a small one and a big one.
- sweats... all i want is awesome warm sweatpants.
- gifts! i like buying gifts
- aerosmith CDs

things to do when i have the time:
- SCRAPBOOK
- stop making lists and write a real Blog.
- write letters
- visit boston (aka beantown)
- backpack EURopE
- EMS.. i really want to work in an ambulance
- piano.. learn some new stuff for once in life
- guitar.. i wish/
- clean my disgusting apt.
- something about my hair

conclusion: what is worng with me? this blog is so terrible. good thing i dont have comments.

okay so i supposed to finishing my medschool apps... but how exciting is it that i have two sleeper readers of my blog. even tho one of them is martin.. who is right about me being the worst friend in the world. additionally exciting (now im starting to talk like these damn essays) is the sunrise i just witnessed. pretty ridiculous i must say. you are all jealous of my nocturnal habits arent you.

snipits from thanksgiving:
- thanksgiving luNCh. thannnk yOu!
- stuffing all day and nite.. thannnk yOu!
- sitting at my comp and trying to do work.. all weekend
- realizing my AIM does nOt add buddies.. AND is inaccurate about
who is on and offline.. away and idle. it really kind of upsets me
- attempting to add to e-ddt but realizing that nothing beats eric
augustins urkel compilation.
- realizing i am spending almost 2000 big ones to get rejected
from half the medschools in the nation.
- spaghetti dinner at kellys house
- party bus wed before thanksgiving with kids from way school HA
- forgetting to pick up my little bro :( sorry petey!
- michael zang?? molly kepic? are you serrious right now? (referring to
the random appearance of gradeschool friends at dick o dows
- the accidental double ordering of soco and lime shots
- coconut cream pie
- FAMILY & FRIENDS TIME.

i love thanksgiving.