Ahhh rest day.
Louie, Ernie, and I had lunch at Fogo de Chao right here on Westheimer and Dunvale. None of us had ever eaten here before and I heard it was pricey but honestly during their lunch hour from 11-2pm... its about $35 a plate in comparison to $50 at dinner... It reminded me alot of the meat and cooking style back in Chile. Very tender and slow cooked meat.... a must for protein lovers. They also give you sides such as mash potato, biscuits and veggies. Louie was all about this place since he is trying to gain weight...so what da hell i was doing there i dunno. lol. 
Took my cousin Louie out yesterday to visit the Improv.... the headliner was Jo Koy... u guys probably seen his video on my myspace page.... freakin hilarious he is.... he spotted our table real quick and the filipino jokes came rollin out! hahhhah He is here until Sunday so i highly recommend you go check him out at the Improv in the Marquee Center! We were all like "ssssst! hoy!!" to have him come take this pic with us. It's tight how he went around thanking all those who came out.. not many comics do that =) Hooray por Orange Chicken!!! lol
Yaaaay!!!
My first Bond movie ever.
President F.D. Roosevelt - 8th December 1941
I have been wanting to make the post since the day I came back from Hawaii. What better way to do it than on the actual day 65 years ago. I gained knowledge ....more knowledge about Pearl Harbor by visiting the memorial instead of hearing about it in school. I was honestly shocked because I just did not know half of what was told to me. My basic idea was the Japs came and bombed Pearl Harbor and that started World War II. That's it.
I hope you truly take the time to read this blog and look at the pictures I took.
Did you know the memorial is built on top of the actual battleship called the U.S.S Arizona and inside there are over 900 Men, Women and Children...dead bodies floating in that ship which could not be recovered?? (All the rust you see in the pictures is the actual ship itself below the water.) It is a living memorial. Still until this day...oil seeps out of the ship below sea and you see it rise to the surface and you can smell it too (as in the pics). They say it is the tears of those below. I honestly had chills standing inside the memorial. If you notice the memorial (white building) it is in a bowed shape...the middle part bows down to represent the downfall and suffering and the two rised ends represent our nation before and after the attacks...always strong and moving forward. Now that I have visited the site.... speechless.... I mean not to compare to 9/11 yet I think this threw most people out of their daily rituals.
December 7, 1941 the day began routinely...Sailors and Marines turned out for church services, chores, and chow. They looked forward to off-duty time for recreation, letter-writing, or sleep. The Navy had been preparing for war - but never a massive air attack. Unknown to the Americans more than 350 Japanese Planes were headed this way from aircraft carriers north of the island, while Japanese midget submarines probed harbor defenses. (you can see this in the model picture of the ship carrying the planes) At 7:55 a.m. the first wave of enemy planes appeared overhead, just as American Sailors and Marines assembled on their vessels to raise the "Stars and Stripes"...attacks continued until 10am that morning with a 15 minute lull time around 8:30. The Japanese settled on what is known as "Battleship Row" which was 7 American battleships lined up against the docks. At about 8:10 am the Arizona was mortally wounded by an armor piercing bomb, which ignited the ship's forward Ammunition magazine. The resulting explosion and fire killed 1,177 crewmen, in 9 minutes... the greatest loss of life on any ship that day and about half the total number of Americans killed.
I hope you have gained more of an insight into this day. If you get a chance to go to Oahu make the time to pay your respects. They bring you out on a ferry boat to the memorial and the silence itself is enough to have you meditating on the events which took place that day.
Niiiice. Went out with Kiss this weekend. hahahhah Actually Shine had cousins come into town and we hit up that Club Crome on West Alabama.... nice spot good booty music on Saturdays. Ummm that would be 4 shots that night and 4 coronas... must keep a well balanced diet hahahhah geez seriously all these blogs about going out lately.... honestly its to keep me busy... my man is in Hawaii and i'm not trying to sit at home and think about the distance... u know? Thats my justification and I'm sticking to it!
Oh so back to my story.... i rolled up to Crome with Jamuna and Shine and cousins and from the second i walk into the club my phone is going haywire with text messages between the guys I chilled with on Friday night (thats another story) and Jewell who is about to go DJ in Hawaii and wants to know my special requests hahhaha so then it totally looks like i'm not having fun cuz i'm texting and calling while the music is bumping like crazy and everyone is dancing. Freakin electronic leashes those cell phones are! And the guys...they decided to sell me out and go to Epic in downtown instead and are convincing me to come with which i wasn't about to do. Finally i decided to get shots with Shine and his cousins and get a good buzz going only to have a second wave of text messages come through on my phone. lol. turns out they all decided to come down to Crome... yay!!
Had fun conversation with Pranav, Nadeem, Zishan, Dullah, Haythem and two guys I never got around to introducing myself to. hahhaha supposedly Cash Money came through...Mannie Fresh... and only Pranav knew that hahahah he was like "Hey!! its mannie!!" hahahhahah
Anyways why the crazy pic of Dullah and his hookah??? 2 reasons...the main one being that wow i actually did not take pics of going out.....and two....cuz we went back to his place and smoked some..correction I didnt because i was really buzzing hard and talking too much but he and Z did. I've tried the apple flavor before ...great stuff! There will be a next time!! hahahha yah we didn't end up leaving Dullah's place until 5am.... taco bell, hookah, and gatorade...crazy combo.... We liked to call this Part 2 of last Friday's adventure....the saga continues.....
Look what Ernie found!!! heehee.... mind you it was already really cold outside and Ernie comes running in saying he found a parakeet. Turns out this little ferocious creature was walking by his truck. i say ferocious cuz he bit me like 100 times already. Ernie didn't want him though and I couldn't put it back outside so he's my little friend. It could be a she but unless u know how or maybe you want to peek under feathers - i don't want to hear it. 
I went running and on my way home I tuned into da boxx...only to find out that Flavor Flav was here in H-town. Now some of you know that my MOM is a die-hard Flavor Flav fan......yah don't ask. So when i went to San Francisco I found a replica toy of Flavor and I bought it for my mom and had been meaning to blog about that because she hung it up in her office! hahahha ok ok so the idea comes to me to go to the office and take the toy off the wall and head up to do B-O-X radio station to get it signed..... so i'm rushing to do this.... and while I do this Flavor says that him and Mike Jones are about to head out to Sharpstown. and who lives in the ghetto??? I do I do!!
hahah so i'm thinking Sharpstown is a better chance for me. So after getting the toy, I go home and change and stuff and I head to Sharpstown which is literally 3 seconds from my apartment. So I park at Macy's and I go inside the main mall and decide to sit right in the Middle of Sharpstown so I can see all the entrances and I'm looking around for Flavor Flav which I know will be there within the next 15 minutes.
Those of you who been to Sharpstown know that all the ghettos were out so just picture some mexican girl sitting there in between the two escalators with a toy and a permanent marker. hahahha Then I saw the people on the escalators hanging over the sides and I knew that was him coming!! So i get up and i see a freakin crowd of security coming through and I'm looking for Flavor who turns out to be right in the middle of it all...he's short... and i'm all "FLAVOR!!! CAN U SIGN THIS FOR ME???!!!" and he sees me hold up my toy and he's all "Hey mama! I don't have time right now." And as if that wasn't a freakin shot down..Mike Jones had to put his two cents in and say "We don't have time for that right now" and so I must have had a look of dissappointment when I said "What? Whatever." and I turned to walk away and one of the Security Guards was like "Hey, thas a cool toy!" and i was like "yah right." still dissappointed and shit and so i start walking off...
ALL of a sudden I hear "Hey! Hey!" and I turn around and all of his security had stopped and they were yelling at me and waving at me to come back and i'm like "what?" and they were like "he said he'll sign it" and i'm like "really?!!!" hahahha so I go running back to Flavor Flav and he is all "hey girl!" and I gave him my toy and I said "It's for my mom!" and he goes "Really?! What is her name?" And I tell him and he is writing on the toy and i say "She is addicted to your show man. She loves it when you say 'woooow'" and he starts laughing and is all "wooooow!" hahahhah and everyone was laughing and so I took that picture of him signing the toy!! 
I should have got one of Mike Jones as well but I was getting irritated that he was standing in the way hahahha move it local hahha and then Flavor invited me out to 2424 tanglewilde which was like some club and i was all "yah most def" hahahh but yeeaah.... if i dont have a VIP pass u wont see me there lol
and so i was walking beside him for a good minute cuz it took him awhile and he was all "thanks gurl!" hehehhe wow!! And then security let me out the circle and the bebe kids (insert Kramer jokes here lol) were all "hey she got that toy signed and a picture!" so my ass started running cuz i didnt want to get jumped. hahahha then I drove to my mom's place and showed her....
She was soo freakin happy! So i'm going to print out the picture and frame it for her as well. She ran upstairs to show Richard and then what does she do? She turns on the Tv to the Flavor Flav show which just happened to be on. hahahah luv it.
It says "Flavor Flav" ... To "Bing" lol (my mom's filipino nickname... bing without the bling.) lol.
Check him out! 
Hola! Este foto es yo con Christina y Marta. Fueron conmigo a Chile dos anos pasado..... and since the majority of you are like "what da hell did she just say" althought ur from Texas and didn't pass yo damn spanish class like you were SUPPOSE to... I said meet Christina and Marta. They both went with me to Chile two years ago for my Rotary Trip. Christina is the one in the Middle and the Director of the Holocaust Museum here in our famous museum district. Marta currently works for the Mayor's office has ties with everything political in Houston. I did the city hall invitations for her if you remember my old blog on that.....
Yah so if you want some seriously intellectual conversations and learn new things outside drinking and partying...these are the girls to chill with. Although..they do drink wine which is something we all picked up in Chile. Not sure if I mentioned it but for a whole month I was buzzed 3 times a day before every meal. In Chile you have to have wine before you eat, while you eat, and after you eat. The food was great!! I may have been buzzing but i know great food hahahhah
Topics from last night.... the movie Babel..... according to them it is a "wait until rental" cuz the director who also did 21 grams seems to follow the same scheme of things. Borat was another topic divided among the party that was there. One girl said she almost peed in her pants while Marta was like "I don't find humor in making fun of other people"... interesting debate which is driving me to the theater this weekend to check it out...and we all know what I think matters most. hahahhahah
Then we spoke about Israel with another chick named Sofia and how hard it is to GET OUT of the country to come back here. Israelis will drill your ass for two hours at the airport before letting you back in. Marta said my feelings when she said "Fu@# that. I need to get home and your ass better put me on that plane" hahahhahahha u really should hear the interrogation questions...freakin insane.
OH the whole reason for the dinner party last night is that Christina has been offered a position in Washington for the FEDERAL Holocaust Museum... how awesome is that? I'm happy for her..she will do well. She had a packing party although all I did was eat and watch hahahha i'm useless. Congratulations to her =) Que te vayas bien Christina!!!
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