Before I let this month go, I wanted to reflect on this month since I turned 28! How does it feel? Sorta strange to be honest. I've been more concerned with everything that has been going on which is why I've been absent from my lovely blog for so long.
On Facebook I was tagged by a friend in one of those post about where you were at a certain age. She chose 18 for me and then I realized Holy cow!; its been a decade since then! So to answer that lovely little tag what would be better than to do it in a blog. I whipped out the old photos and got this:
At 18 I was a total Geek. I lived by my Anime and playing DDR. I had just lost my first job working at FAO Schwartz the giant toy store in the mall and started working as an Online Teacher for younger grades in my school. I was home-schooled but I was a part of a group that met up once a week to be taught by actual teachers on things we couldn't learn by ourselves like AP classes and Chemistry with Lab. My P.E. was studying Ju Jit Su under a family friend that was a Forest Ranger in Los Angeles Crest. I took my swordsmanship quite seriously.
I went out my first real date with Eugene, he bought me that golden mandarin dress in Chinatown. That night was also the night we fell in love. We got together over the phone the next morning. I met Eugene through a friend and we were online email buddies for awhile. He surprised me by showing up on my door step on my 17th birthday. We sort of hated each other for awhile then became best friends. We started a cosplay group together called StarGazerZ I was crazy for cosplay!
The group split up and got members every year. One year we had the crazy idea to do a murder mystery dinner. One thing led to another and we made our first play in 2005. So you could say that our old cosplay group, Star GazerZ, was the mother of Azure Lorica; my non-profit theatre company today.
It's tradition for Filipina's to have a debut on their 18th birthday, and that I did! I was so proud that I wore my mom's wedding dress that day. Eugene was my escort and he wore traditional Filipino formal wear. After all the formal festivities I turned my birthday into a rave! Glowsticks, fog machines, DJs, and dance battles, it was so fun!
Shortly after I graduated high school. I had prepared a speech I was going to say, when my counselor pulled me out of the line and winked at me she told me "You go first!" I almost cried! It meant that my peers had chose me to be the valedictorian speech! I had secretly wanted to be valedictorian since I was 14, I wonder who told them?
Then I was off to college! I attended California Lutheran my first year and I absolutely hated it. I had this ideal in my head that college was going to be amazing, but a college in the rural hills wasn't for me. They didn't have my major and I was stuck taking general courses for the most part. Whats worse was that I was too advance for my classes from home-schooling and I was bored. Thankfully I had new friends...
Ben was Eugene's close friend at the time and we met working on his student film in the summer. We got close at one point we all stayed at his place as my dorm got out of hand and Girls Gone Wild came up. He taught me how to drive on his Eclipse that we got off of eBay. We called it the Dark Steed, and we went everywhere with it!
A favorite past time of our was taking artistic pictures. Mostly they were taken at Pasadena. It was early then I started to the love the culture that it would bring. So when I dropped out, I went to Pasadena Community College until I transferred to pursuit my major as a Graphic Designer. The rest is well history.
It's been fun reflecting, seeing these pictures really allow me to see my artistic influences. I'm looking forward to what the next 10 years will bring me. Thanks for joining me on this trip down memory lane!
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