my summer thus far:

+ reading
+ memorizing
+ patron silver, grey goose, hennessy
+ thizz & purple
+ declining trips to southern california and las vegas
+ clubs/parties
+ planning my dad's surprise birthday party
+ reuniting with old folks
+ more reading
+ more memorizing


+ a year has passed since my cousin was shot and killed (some of you might remember the hiatus i took last summer on my last lj account)

+ hawaii trip pltanned for late september. i'm excited as hell
+ i need another bikini, but it looks as though every store has stopped selling them

yup, that's pretty much it.

so i'm listening to a local bay area radio station and what do i hear?

'Bebot Bebot
Ikaw ang aking
Bebot Bebot'

'PILIPINO! PILIPINO! PILIPINO!'...

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMFAO !!!!!!!!!!!!

hell nahhhh, apl of black eyed peas did not just make a song entirely in tagalog (philippine national language)... i'm assuming they played it on the radio because of the large numbers of filipino's that live in the bay area. i almost died laughing when i heard that shit. i grew up with my mom (never my dad--he always spoke to us in english), my aunts, and grandmothers speaking to me and my brothers in ilocano (another filipino dialect). strange as it seems to most, i can fully understand ilocano but i can't speak a lick of it. my parents only spoke tagalog among my brothers and i when they didn't want us to know what they were talking about. unfortunately for them i caught on and was able to decipher parts of their conversations in tagalog. so yes, back to the point.. i don't understand tagalog as much as i understand ilocano, but i grasped fragments of the song. true, the song when translated in english, isn't very funny at all... it's just i find it ODD to hear a song in tagalog on the radio. and hearing phrases like, 'hoy pare' and 'bebot' was enough to put me into fits of laughter.

there are some things that really get to me. for example, the slow ass drivers who think they are allowed to just leisurely drive along in the fast lane like they have no where in the world to be. it's 12:40pm. my appointment at 12:50. i'm driving 80mph trying to make a 15-20 minute drive in 10 minutes. i know you see me on your ass. MOVE. yes, the far left lane has become known in our society as the "fast lane," and in the beginning probably wasn't paved for the sole use of fast drivers; but if one chooses to get their driver's license in the state of california then that person should know when to get the hell out of the way. slower traffic should and are supposed to move to the right lanes. it's obvious that a lot of drivers pay no attention to those signs they have on most freeway's. people, people, all i'm asking is to just haul ass to the next lane, going under 75mph in the fast lane is a no, no. you're not only pissing me off, but you're probably making those tailgating me from behind mad as well.