hi hi hi from cincinnati

hi, everyone! it's joy. after reading these last couple of posts, i miss everyone so much!

i've been here in cincinnati now for over 2 weeks, and i've been nothing but busy. my schedule is packed: monday, wednesdays and fridays i have it easy with classes from 9 am until 3 pm and then rehearsal from 6:30 until 10:30 pm. but on tuesdays and thursdays...i'm basically at school from 9 am until 10:30 pm with one break. i'm exhausted and it's only the second week of school. i guess they try to suck the life out of you senior year before you leave.

anyway, the only thing i want to report is that i'm having an amazing time in rehearsal for my play, "anon(ymous)." i'll be in rehearsal for the next month, so you'll probably hear alot about it. it's based off of "the odyssey" and i play a goddess named Naja. i'm giving my character a slight chinese and filipino accent...and here's the best part: i'm modeling her off of the aunties...mostly auntie inday. she's a smart, sassy, caring and sympathetic goddess. so i think you guys should watch it. it's a pretty amazing show. my roomate wrote all of the music and i get to play the guitar (uncle sal would be proud). the show dates are october 24th-28th. if you can make it, please come! it'll be my last big show!

here are pictures of me in rehearsal with my roomate and our guitars:


the philippines sounds amazing...roze i'm so happy for you! you MUST post pictures! i won't be back in louisville until thanksgiving, so i want to see them soon. the aunties sound like they're having a great time. i want to hear all about it when everyone gets back! oh...and tell papa to call me or mama! he hasn't contacted me at all! :( hmph. anyway, have a safe trip back. tell everyone hi and give them a big hug from me.

well, that's it for now. i miss each and every one of you every day. take care .

much love,
joy

Filipinana Parade

Today was the parade. Auntie Norma and Lilibeth took pictures. Oh yes my consort is cute and only 16, but I thwarted everyone's plans to try to get me hooked up. Well at least for today. (You should be proud of me Ging!) Everything went better than I expected. My make-up artist/hair stylist did a very good job. And yes he's agee. Daddy Roding tried last night to tell me he had come to the house and it sounded more like - "Oh Roze your make-up artist is here. He...or she...he oooh I don't if it's a he or a she, but he she is down there." lol. This morning though, some driver decided to drive past my float and knocked one of the backgrounds off. So Daddy had to get a bunch of guys to fix it. And then while I was on the float, I tried my best to wave, but the bahay kubo was sooo not power line proof and the driver couldn't really see where he was going. So basically almost every turn, I was holding a piece of bamboo in one hand (which was meant for supporting me but was literally a stick glued to the float) and my consort for dear life. Other than that, the parade was great - for one - it didn 't rain until after the parade. Well got to go for now. I'm in Uncle Elfrain's computer store. Tomorrow will be the DWAI night, and the Sunday - the procession and coronation. You all should see my coronation dress. It is amazing. I will try my best to post more stuff this week!

Your Majesty (giggle),
Roze

PHILIPPINES!

Hey everyone! Sorry for the delay in updates. I was under house arrest yesterday. (Joy and Inday Diutay - I can hear you scolding me) Well, let's start with the traveling. As some of you have heard, I got stopped by airport security for a bottle of face moisturizer. (oh by the way Inday Al you can use it - I've got 2 bottles here) The funny thing is that Lilibeth brought her contact lens solution which was bigger than mine, but the she asked the security guy and he proceeded in flirting with her so she got the bottle through. Lesson learned: If you want to get something through airport security - flirt with airport security. Anyways, we (Auntie Inday, Auntie Norma, Lilibeth, my Tatay, my Nanay and I) had to ride four different airplanes - during each one Auntie Inday felt like picking a fight with someone. In Detroit - some lady cut Auntie Norma waiting in line, so of course Auntie Inday gave her a piece of her mind. Then, on the flight to Nagoya, a Japanese lady sitting behind Auntie kept stretching her feet and kicking Auntie's seat. (The last thing anyone should try to do is annoy Auntie when she's tired.) Well, Auntie tried to tell her to stop but the lady repeatingly told her she wasn't doing anything. So Auntie being Auntie - whenever the Japanese lady would kick her seat she would pound on the seat. By this time, Auntie Norma had been laughing so hard that she went to the bathroom 3 times. No joke. I was sitting in front of them and they were giggling off and on throughout the 10 hour flight.

Oh and it's not over - once we got to Manila, some Filipina lady kept staring at me. Well Auntie Inday caught her and I'll just say it ended with "Lenti! Ano turok mo! If I were you Roze, I would stare at her back really hard." Just so you know the Filipina was like only 5 feet away and probably heard Auntie. Everything went well after all of this. My Tatay tried to get my Nanay to sit in a wheelchair so we all would be able to cut long lines, but my Nanay gave up, so the Aunties and my Tatay befriended another Filipina lady who was using a wheelchair and we got to each flight rather early.

Mark and Ging on the Playground

So Ging and I came down to New Jersey at Marisol's house for little Mark's 2nd birthday. Tommy had a soccer game that morning (and they WON!), and while he was out on the field, his little brother went to the playground to play with his Auntie Ging. Guess who had more fun?



Ging and Mark #1



Ging and Mark #2






Ging and Mark #3

-Jojo

EYEBROWS!

it's joy.

...so i waxed roze's eyebrows, despite her attempt to run away from me. but after i tied her down to a chair and stuck an apple in her mouth, i have to say i think i did a pretty good job.

when i was finished, roze's skin was all red from the wax, but she didn't complain. i also had a pile of used wax strips sitting on the sink and it looked like some cat had rolled around and shed its hair all over the place, but alas it was just roze's eyebrow hairs. anyway, the redness has faded a bit, the brows are clean and she looks great :)



...now she really looks like a queen! she might be turning down lots of marriage proposals when she gets to the philippines! ;)

-joy-

a bit of an update

Hey, family. Everyone has been wanting to know when I will be leaving for the Philippines. Our departure will be on the 23rd of September. I'm pretty excited. I guess I should be nervous, but it won't be probably until the day before we leave. So far - I am banned from gaining any weight and getting tanned. Joy and Auntie Inday have been chasing after my eyebrows with tweezers and wax for the past two weeks. Haha - not really, but I might have a nightmare or two about that. Yep. Right now I'm living at Silverbrook. My Tatay and Nanay are on vacation in Canada, so I've been at the store with Auntie Belle and Joy. The store's doing well. Joy and I joked yesterday that the next time Jojo or my parents call the store, Joy should tell them that everything 's fine - except Roze just got crushed by an entire shelf of Ube-flavored Otap.


Anyways, I will keep everyone updated on happenings while we are in the Philippines.



Big Bear Hugs,

Roze

also...

oh, also...chloe and ethan have this adorable video online. please watch:

here

-joy

yo yo yo

hi, everyone. i'm bored.

i've been working at uncle sal's store all weekend since auntie and uncle are in canada til wednesday. so roze, auntie belle and i have bonded.

anyway, that's all for now. i leave for cincinnati on wednesday. talk to you guys soon.

-joy

Yet Another Labor Day Greeting! from Ging

Salve Famiglia! How is everyone doing? I've heard from all the pregnant peeps, and those of you who are planning to come up to the east coast to visit Marisol, Jojo, and I, but it's been a while since I've spoken to most of you :0( Hope all is lovely for everyone.

As for me, as everyone knows, I was unable to attend Boyet and Janice's wedding, but I did see all the pictures, and am absolutely heart-broken that I was basically the only one who wasn't there. I did hear the stories and am waiting with baited breath for another one of you to get engaged so that I can be at the next wedding ;0)

The show I was in at the time of the wedding went very well. We started rehearsals and went into previews in May and ran from June-July. I also got to meet a lot of great people and went to a lot of really cool events. A highlight from one of the parties would be drinking with Paolo Montalban - one of the the foremost Filipino actors on Broadway today, though most of you will remember him as the prince in the Brandy/Whitney Houston version of Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. I had told Mama when I was fourteen that I was going to marry him, but, hey, doing a few shots with him was just as good!

Also, as most of you all know, Joy was here for over a month for her internship, which was very nice, as it's actually been a few years since the two of us have really been under one roof. We really didn't get to spend as much time together as I had anticipated, unfortunately, what with schedules, plus she arrived just as audition season started to peak, and left just as the casting started slowing down. She did have good time while she was here, as many of her friends from school were also doing internships, so she was very rarely bored ;0)

I was also just offered a part in a production of Miss Saigon upstate covering the role of Kim and playing one of the featured bar-girls (yes a hooker). Rehearsals will begin early next month, and we will run from October 19 until November 11, so I am very excited and eager for October to get here.

And that's the past few months in a nutshell. Life is good, and I am enjoying myself very much. Hope you all are doing the same! See you in December!

-GING

Labor Day At Silverbrook!

hey, guys. it's joy. i'm currently in auntie inday's room as auntie is brushing her teeth and auntie norms, my mama, papa, auntie belle, uncle rol, lilibeth, roze, cristopher, chelsea and connor are in the kitchen eating the labor day feast. the family did a last-minute lunch for auntie belle and my arrival, and also for bing's birthday (which is tomorrow, sept. 5th. happy birthday, bing!)

anyway, auntie norms made ribs, lilibeth made tenola, auntie belle made pancit and uncle rol made mongo. it was a nice, hardy meal.

now, we're letting our stomachs settle and auntie inds just left for work. below are pictures of neng's three kids that i took with my camera phone:



i'm going back to cinci on sept. 12th, the day after my mama's birthday, and i start classes sept. 17th. i got in from new york on august 31st after a two-month internship with a casting agency. i stayed with ging and had a really amazing time. it was really nice to spend time with her and really learn new york city. it's a crazy city, and it was a good experience to be a new yorker for two months. here are some pictures:













anyway, i hope all is well with everyone. i'll keep you guys posted on things here in louisville as they come. love all of you


-joy-

Happy Labor Day

Hello and Happy Labor Day, everyone! I thought I'd post something. Not much going on here... My parents went to Biloxi with the FilAm today and I opted to stay home. Don't really care for the sensory overload (smell & sound); not to mention losing money... Okay, don't laugh at my $20.00 limit at the casinos.

Anyhoo, this was an opportunity to recuperate from mowing the lawn yesterday. It took 4 hours and I finally got done at noon. The sun was scorching but I wanted to get everything done. I was worn out! My riding mower died a month ago, so I had to push the mower. Add the heat and you can call it a Tylenol Arthritis day! tee hee

Tomorrow, I plan to read Harry Potter. I started the book and haven't made it past the 1st chapter. For the fellow fans, I love JK Rowling's way with words ~ I've just been multi-tasking and somewhat ADD. ;) I'm also spoiled because I "listened" to the first 6 volumes.

Other than that, life is good. I'm still living among boxes but I love my new home! Its great to be living near my parents. This is the first time in 12 years I've had the opportunity to be close to family and have a job I enjoy. Can't beat that! Now, UK has to have an excellent basketball season and I'll be in heaven! Segue to my vanity plate story...

I went to change my plates and I was pleasantly surprised to find that UKBLUE, IM4UK, WILDCAT, YLDCAT, 1UKFAN were not available. I finally got YLD4UK! Was a bit worried but my pride in fellow UK fans had me glowing! Okay, that's all for now. Desperate Housewives & Brothers & Sisters are finished. I'll close for now. Love and miss you all! Have a gr8 and safe Labor Day! ~Nene Lourdes

First Entry

Welcome, everyone! This is the Official Lanceta Family Blogspot.

Here, everyone can post about themselves and their families. I think it's a GREAT way to keep in touch without flooding our emails and whatnot. Plus you can post pictures, links and videos on here.

I advise everyone to post and check on here as much as they can. Since the Lanceta family is spread all over the country (and world), I think this can be a really nice way of being a part of each other's daily lives.

I was telling Auntie Inday about this site and she thought it was a great idea. You can post big and little news on here. Whatever keeps us updated.

The ONLY RULE is that you sign your posts at the bottom so we know who wrote it.

Anyway, everyone enjoy. Spread the word and keep us updated on everything!!!! LOVE AND MISS ALL OF YOU.

-Joy