I had some trouble getting into my blogspot account yesterday therefore, not being able to post the second part of my friends' " top secret " surprise for me that been hanging around since the last last couple of weeks. And without further ado, on with the story....
So there I was all dressed up and especially made up to look "adorably pretty" as Bunny lovingly put it as I checked myself in mirror after spending most of the afternoon objecting and compromising with what and what not to wear. It actually almost came to the point that I wanted to just go home and not attend at all! All the fuss and everything extra she (Bunny) is putting into this is literally giving me the CREEPS!
Okay, it's not that I don't have complete trust in my friends, it's just that they are also "blind-date setting, practical jokers and mischievous bunch" I've ever met... yeah, it's also the perfect description of myself too... but as the saying goes, "...Nobody likes a taste of their own medicine..." and I'm no different.
Anyway, it's already an major understatement that something is definitely on and I felt weird... no it isn't the usual bad feeling I get when I get suspicious over something... actually I wasn't really sure how to describe it because Bunny already assured me that it wasn't going to be one of those blind dates we set upon each other most of the time. Nervous? YES! Scared? NO. Confused? A LITTLE... because I didn't really get what all the fuss over me was all about... and WHY ME?!!!
At around, 4:30 pm , Bunny's boyfriend picked us up and when we got there everybody was already there at Koji. And to my utter dismay almost everyone was wearing jeans and their usual casuals and I'm in a DRESS???!!! (Short dress if I may add!) Sam was like, "GANDA BABAE tayo ngayon ah! I love it! (BLAH!) Relax and enjoy! Na-miss ka namin last weekend..."
"Ganda babae pala ha? Pilay naman!" (rolled my eyes) I joked. "Kayo talaga ha! Dapat lang mag-enjoy ako no! Mahirap yata magpakababae... ano ba kasi ang meron?"
Sam didn't get to answer my question because I saw some of our other friends to and I had go go around and greet everybody, especially the ones who were there that haven't attended our get-togethers for quite awhile now because of a lot of different reasons.
Our group occupied 5 - 6 tables at Koji I did get to enjoy the buffet and had a blast with everybody that I even thought that I overreacted about the whole SURPRISE thing until Sam got a call and walked out of Koji and then Bunny whispered, "Ayan na siya..." to me. I found myself looking over and saw Sam walking back in, followed by a tall slender guy in a male nurse uniform with a duffel bag over his shoulder. And I was like, "I knew it! It's another blind date... I think I'd like to go home....NOW!"
But before I could voice out a protest to Bunny, Sam walked to our table with the guy and she asked, "Do you guys remember each other?" looking at me and the new guy. I found myself looking at him and he looked back at me. Looking closely, the guy did look somewhat familiar to me, but I couldn't remember when and where we met and I embarrassingly admit that I can't seem to pin a name to go with the face.
After a bit, the guy said, "I don't think we've met, Sam... Is she the one you...?" he trailed off
"Yes! And I'm sure you two know each other! We all lived in the same apartment complex ages ago! YOU... HER...ME and Bunny!"
Apartment complex? That rang a bell. Sometime after me and my sister arrived here in the US, my dad moved us (just me and dad, my sister already found work and moved out shortly afterwards) out of our rental home ( It was just the two of us and it wasn't worth it to rent a house anymore.) and into an apartment complex along the borderline of Carson and Torrance. Among the very first friends I made there were Sam, Bunny and a guy named Oli --- Oliver "Oli" Garcia III!
But the "Oli" I remember was very different than the new guy so I thought it can't be. How different? The "Oli" I know was thin and scrawny, had glasses, shy and quiet. The new guy I saw at the party was tall and sort of muscular (based on the uniform he was wearing) kind of cute/ handsome (not that the Oli I knew way back was ugly... it's just that I think he didn't know how to dress properly, the glasses added a geeky look to the guy even though he wasn't really one.) Of course that was probably 13 -15 years ago!
After realizing that, I said, "Oli?" and he gave me this puzzled look that disappeared seconds later and then he went "Oh my God... Christine?" (Christine was my legal birth first name before I change it to "Kristen" through US Citizenship but retained my second name, Valerie.)
What's funny is that we didn't recognize each other! Oli changed a lot though the years and he thought so did I, even though I would have thought, being in a wheelchair is an obvious giveaway...
Did I really change that much?
(Part 3 tomorrow.... I'm sleepy...)
So there I was all dressed up and especially made up to look "adorably pretty" as Bunny lovingly put it as I checked myself in mirror after spending most of the afternoon objecting and compromising with what and what not to wear. It actually almost came to the point that I wanted to just go home and not attend at all! All the fuss and everything extra she (Bunny) is putting into this is literally giving me the CREEPS!
Okay, it's not that I don't have complete trust in my friends, it's just that they are also "blind-date setting, practical jokers and mischievous bunch" I've ever met... yeah, it's also the perfect description of myself too... but as the saying goes, "...Nobody likes a taste of their own medicine..." and I'm no different.
Anyway, it's already an major understatement that something is definitely on and I felt weird... no it isn't the usual bad feeling I get when I get suspicious over something... actually I wasn't really sure how to describe it because Bunny already assured me that it wasn't going to be one of those blind dates we set upon each other most of the time. Nervous? YES! Scared? NO. Confused? A LITTLE... because I didn't really get what all the fuss over me was all about... and WHY ME?!!!
At around, 4:30 pm , Bunny's boyfriend picked us up and when we got there everybody was already there at Koji. And to my utter dismay almost everyone was wearing jeans and their usual casuals and I'm in a DRESS???!!! (Short dress if I may add!) Sam was like, "GANDA BABAE tayo ngayon ah! I love it! (BLAH!) Relax and enjoy! Na-miss ka namin last weekend..."
"Ganda babae pala ha? Pilay naman!" (rolled my eyes) I joked. "Kayo talaga ha! Dapat lang mag-enjoy ako no! Mahirap yata magpakababae... ano ba kasi ang meron?"
Sam didn't get to answer my question because I saw some of our other friends to and I had go go around and greet everybody, especially the ones who were there that haven't attended our get-togethers for quite awhile now because of a lot of different reasons.
Our group occupied 5 - 6 tables at Koji I did get to enjoy the buffet and had a blast with everybody that I even thought that I overreacted about the whole SURPRISE thing until Sam got a call and walked out of Koji and then Bunny whispered, "Ayan na siya..." to me. I found myself looking over and saw Sam walking back in, followed by a tall slender guy in a male nurse uniform with a duffel bag over his shoulder. And I was like, "I knew it! It's another blind date... I think I'd like to go home....NOW!"
But before I could voice out a protest to Bunny, Sam walked to our table with the guy and she asked, "Do you guys remember each other?" looking at me and the new guy. I found myself looking at him and he looked back at me. Looking closely, the guy did look somewhat familiar to me, but I couldn't remember when and where we met and I embarrassingly admit that I can't seem to pin a name to go with the face.
After a bit, the guy said, "I don't think we've met, Sam... Is she the one you...?" he trailed off
"Yes! And I'm sure you two know each other! We all lived in the same apartment complex ages ago! YOU... HER...ME and Bunny!"
Apartment complex? That rang a bell. Sometime after me and my sister arrived here in the US, my dad moved us (just me and dad, my sister already found work and moved out shortly afterwards) out of our rental home ( It was just the two of us and it wasn't worth it to rent a house anymore.) and into an apartment complex along the borderline of Carson and Torrance. Among the very first friends I made there were Sam, Bunny and a guy named Oli --- Oliver "Oli" Garcia III!
But the "Oli" I remember was very different than the new guy so I thought it can't be. How different? The "Oli" I know was thin and scrawny, had glasses, shy and quiet. The new guy I saw at the party was tall and sort of muscular (based on the uniform he was wearing) kind of cute/ handsome (not that the Oli I knew way back was ugly... it's just that I think he didn't know how to dress properly, the glasses added a geeky look to the guy even though he wasn't really one.) Of course that was probably 13 -15 years ago!
After realizing that, I said, "Oli?" and he gave me this puzzled look that disappeared seconds later and then he went "Oh my God... Christine?" (Christine was my legal birth first name before I change it to "Kristen" through US Citizenship but retained my second name, Valerie.)
What's funny is that we didn't recognize each other! Oli changed a lot though the years and he thought so did I, even though I would have thought, being in a wheelchair is an obvious giveaway...
Did I really change that much?
(Part 3 tomorrow.... I'm sleepy...)
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