Choke catching up to do.

Choke is pigeon (Hawaiian slang) for plenty, a lot.

This may be uninteresting to you, but I will kick myself later for not writing this down.


Talking story with da kine

Man, I miss Hawaii. I just got reminded BIG time of pigeon because I finally(!!!) got to "meet" Su's boyfriend, Zui.

Su gave him my Yahoo ID, I guess, and we finally met each other online. Su wasn't there then, but it was cool to get to know a little about the guy my baby sister is spending all her free time with.

He sent pictures too. YAY! Now we know what he looks like! Su hasn't sent any pics of her yet (HELLO, what is that digital camera we got you for?!)

Turns out, we've seen each other around a ton on campus before (I worked Utility Maintenance, in the dorms, he did (does?) plumbing) and have alot of the same friends.

We talked for WAY too long about their relationship, him, mine, our friends... in a nutshell: I approve. My sister has good tastes. And, I am half glad I am not in a serious relationship anymore: no more big, important, life-changing decisions to make. I'm a coward, I like going with the flow.

Those are two really confused kids. Extremely happy, but confused.

We may like different pizza toppings
but we sure as heck are more alike than we thought!

Su didn't date while she was here, neither did I, really. I went on a couple of dates with one guy and he was Australian so that doesn't count.

Point is, I've never been able to find out what her tastes for men were like before (she's kept so hush-hush about guys she likes that I'm still not sure she liked guys growing up) and this is cool. Not that you can tell what kind of guys I like by looking at who I've hooked up with: they are so vastly different.

I have a general idea of what I want, but they all seem to contradict each other. I give up. I have just settled for saying that I like men, period.

Anyway, back to what I was talking about, Zui mentioned something to the effect of "It's weird how the two of you are so much alike, yet so very different." I'm bascially the extroverted version of Su, I guess. I know if you dig below the surface, you will find that have a MILLION differences. But it's true: we think alike (I just CRACKED UP when I heard that Su wouldn't let her guy pay for things either!), we like alot of the same things (she's my little sister, she likes some things just because I liked them) and apparently, we're looking for the same things in guys.

So she openly admits that she wouldn't choose to date Mark. I'm not sure she would've hand picked any of my other ex-boyfriends for herself, but I guess in the end, all women are looking for the same thing and since all men are different, we learn to love what we are exposed to the most and what fits our personality best (not to mention whatever comes our way).

Ok ok, getting sidetracked again. My sister has lived in my shadow for most of her life, except for gymnastics, the only other thing I can think of where my reputation didn't precede her was her highschool. It was a good move to put us in different schools: total growing experience for her.

For some reason, I have always assumed that we would never really be put in the same social circle. It hasn't really happened yet, but returning to Hawaii will definitely be interesting. So far, no guys have ever had to choose between me or her, and that's a good thing. None have gotten to know us to an equal degree yet. And I don't plan on that ever happening. I mean, hopefully, if everything works out well, she wouldn't ever have to be "competition" so to speak.

Because as much of a possesive green-eyed monster that I am, if I am willing to step aside for some stranger, I'd let my 'lil sister win if it boiled down to it. I'd probably be incredibly jealous for a while, but hey, I never claimed to being perfect!


Family Church Evening.

Oooh, we had a branch Family Home Evening in church today because it was a public holiday.

I was 40 minutes late for it, along with Han and Shuan. Quite a funny story, actually. I was on the Yahoo on dad's crappy laptop with Su and Zui (Dad conveniently took both desktops for repair) and everyone was leaving in a hurry. I said bye, but Dad had already driven off: the last thing I heard was "We can go in two cars!"

I had already said bye and shut down the computer. I went downstairs, got dressed. Mom still wasn't calling us to leave yet. Ok. So I called Jared while waiting to say "Happy Anniversay". The conversation didn't last very long because this loud buzzing started and I figured the call was expensive (calls are on MY dime now) and I had to leave soon anyway, so we ended it.

Anyway, after another 5 minutes of pacing and yelling for mom to hurry up, I decided to go see what was keeping her. Hah. This is the funny part: I couldn't find her. I had spent all that time waiting for mom when she was already at church!

Feeling stupid, I had Han and Shuan quit their Digimon game on playstation and climb up the van. No one else had known that mom had left too.

ARGH! I just remembered! Before leaving, I grabbed my mom's digital camera so I could take pics to put on here. I totally forgot about it (so no pics *sniffle*) and the camera is still in my bag. If I continue with my bag-unpacking habits, I won't discover the camera again till I am in Hawaii.

How did the activity go? It was a BLAST! Really scattered and noisy, but great bonding time with everyone at church. We had a barbeque going, a short lesson, games... after that, a bunch of people (mostly the Young Men) got together to play basketball. That included Han, Ernie (he touched the ball maybe twice) and Dad. I wonder when the last time anyone used the hoop was.

There was one girl playing, she's maybe 12. And good. Quite a tomboy. I wish I was good at some kind of sport. I hate being this feminine girly-girl who can't do tough guy things. But from observing the game, I noticed that my family sucks at basketball. At least in comparison to everyone else.

The best part of the whole activity? Tiffany's mom, Sister Andrews, supplied us a whole lot of frozen quarter pounder hamburgers from McDonalds which she is some kind head honcho for.

And about 20 of the leftovers is in our freezer. *evil grin*


Where we deviate

Su called home today, finally, after like what 2-3 weeks? I don't have a problem with her not calling home: I hardly did, ever, towards the end. I just got tired of mom complaing about not hearing from Su.

Anyway, the big difference between Su and I? She seeks mom out for advice and is actually open to it.

I keep my parents the heck out of my life and let them in on what was going on only when I was safely 6000 miles away in Hawaii and they couldn't do anything about it.

Even then, I NEVER asked for their opinion.