Sometime earlier this year, a cousin of mine found me on Friendster. How she found me, I am not really sure. I dont really make my last name public. I am very paranoid / schizo about internet privacy.
I have never met Gem before. She now lives in Singapore. (Kunstemaecker, just in case you were interested - this is the sexy, single cousin I was telling you about.....) She's two years younger than me. But I know her older sister quite well. When I was still living in the US, Faith used to come for thoes week long Bible conventions. And even when I moved to Canada, I used to fly to wherever she is to hook up.
So, today, I was having another look at her Friendster profile because I received notification of new friends being added. I found more cousins! I am not really sure why they are so open about publishing their personal information on the web, but what the heck. It's very cool. And just for the heck of it, I sent messages to everyone else asking if I am also related to them.
My dad comes from a family of 12 or 13 or something like that. And each brother / sister has an average of 4 children. Some has over 10 kids and to make us all remember their names, their parents named them alphabetically - Abraham, Benjamin, Charity, Daniel... I think you get where I am going with this. I have never been back to the Philippines, so I dont know much about them.
I would have turned out so different if my parents didnt migrate to the US. To think of the possibilities.....
I have never met Gem before. She now lives in Singapore. (Kunstemaecker, just in case you were interested - this is the sexy, single cousin I was telling you about.....) She's two years younger than me. But I know her older sister quite well. When I was still living in the US, Faith used to come for thoes week long Bible conventions. And even when I moved to Canada, I used to fly to wherever she is to hook up.
So, today, I was having another look at her Friendster profile because I received notification of new friends being added. I found more cousins! I am not really sure why they are so open about publishing their personal information on the web, but what the heck. It's very cool. And just for the heck of it, I sent messages to everyone else asking if I am also related to them.
My dad comes from a family of 12 or 13 or something like that. And each brother / sister has an average of 4 children. Some has over 10 kids and to make us all remember their names, their parents named them alphabetically - Abraham, Benjamin, Charity, Daniel... I think you get where I am going with this. I have never been back to the Philippines, so I dont know much about them.
I would have turned out so different if my parents didnt migrate to the US. To think of the possibilities.....
posted by The Imaginary Diva at 5:25 PM
If only you had introduced me to her last year, back when I was single.
Promise me to never show me a picture of her. :p