computer's fixed!!

finally, the computer is fixed. and you know what the problem is? just a stupid piece of wire. a stupid piece of thin wire that rendered the big and mighty CPU useless. oh life....

there are many times that i would want to write (i mean type) something on this blog, but because of that stupid wire, i cant. and now i can, i dont know what to write. haha.

oh, maybe you're interested to know why my family's last name is evangelista. it's nothing interesting actually. it's just that some people are wondering how could we have that filipino surname when we claim to be pure chinese. i've always thought that we just bought it like the others, but i just found out that that was not the case. haha. that's waht happens if you choose to be ignorant of your own ancestors.

so here's the story...

once upon a time (haha), there lived a boy named potenciano evangelista. we are not sure of his heritage, if he's a true blooded filipino or if he has some chinese blood. there's nothing mentioned about any family or relatives. the only thing my father can say is that he's probably 10 or 11 yrs old that time. so anyway, for unknown reasons, he went to china.

and also for unknown reasons, he died there. i dont know what age. the only thing we can be sure of is that he never return to the philippines. and so the next thing my father told me is that there is this chinese guy who went to the philippines and claimed to be potenciano evangelista. yes guys, that chinese guy stole the poor boy's name. i asked my father how he could do that, just steal someone's name. and my father answered that there are a lot of lost documents just flying (his word) around that time, the chinese dude probably stumbled upon potenciano's passport. and since that time the pictures are black and white and the place was in chaos, the chinese guy was able to come to the philippines. cheat his way to the philippines, that is.

in my opinion, he probably killed potenciano in able to come here. haha. though my father refuse to accept that theory. i guess he just doesnt want to accept that there might be a murderer in our blood. haha. because it just so happens that that chinese dude is my paternal grandmother's father.

so anyway, the new potenciano married a chinese woman in the philippines and they both have filipino citizenships. they had 5 children. 3 boys and 2 girls. the 2 elder sons died in the war in the hands of the japanese. tsk tsk. my ama is the youngest of the children and she hates the japanese. haha.
my ama is a pure blooded chinese with a filipino citizenship. her name is ana evangelista.

and so ana evangelista met go guan. my 6 foot 1 angkong and they married.
my ankong, 林永遠, is a chinese citizen but he has a green card so he was able to stay here in the philippines. the two never married. i dont know why. but anyway, they 8 children consisting of 5 boys and 3 girls. that time, the consititution doesnt allow illegitimate children from having their fathers' surname. and since my father is illegitimate, he had evangelista for a surname, not lim and he also has no middle name. on the bright side, he's a filipino citizen. when some of his younger siblings were born, the constitution changed so they were able to obtain the surname lim.

yes, i am a bastard's daughter. haha. i am so mean.

and my mother? well, she's a filipino citizen even though both her parents are chinese. something to do with the changing of the constitution again. geez, i cant be a politician. i dont understand how the freaking constitution works. so my mother's whole name is pinky cheung go. pinky tsonggo. haha. wala lang.