The Big Aiyah

So I set my self for a big let down

If you read my posting on the 17th, I've been hanging out with Ukulele Man. We had dinner last Friday night.

We went back to the Hawaiian restaurant. My band was playing that night and a whole bunch of peeps from the hula world were coming out to celebrate a hula sister recovering from a stroke. He met all the folks in my little SF 'ohana. He said he had a really good time and wanted to go again! Then, he said he'd like to hang out with me at the Stern Grove Festival.

So, as the Saturday wore on...I started to get a little excited to hang out with him again. Long story short, he never showed up Sunday under the auspices that he HAD to go to WuShu. He finally called me at about 9:30pm and he ditched me to goof off at the parade and go to the beach. He NEVER got close to going to WuShu!

sigh I just really felt slided.

It wasn't like I wasn't having fun with my friends Sunday at the concert. All in all it was a pretty good day. Even when he called, I was having dinner, hanging out with friends at my place. But, there was a part of me that was disappointed for allowing myself to get excited over a guy's company. When will I ever learn?

posted by Ukulele Princess @ 11:41 AM

ON FRIENDSTERS, ANYONE CAN FIND YOU!

So I got conned into joining Friendsters and it was fun at first....

But I never expected for my first boyfriend to do a search on me and actually make contact with me?! Strange. We didn't end on good terms so I would have never thought he'd even think of me. Okay the truth is I didn't think about searching for him or thought about him until his email through friendsters. sigh Now he wants to call me and talk to me and see what I'm up to. It all sounds fairly innocent, but why now? I've really got nothing to talk about with him.

Can't I just leave the past in the past? Although I don't have ill feelings for him or want to be friends with him, I don't want to be mean. So to see what he really wants I told him to just IM me.

So aside from the wrong person finding me, I found some old friends from way back on friendsters.

posted by Ukulele Princess @ 2:41 PM

Reprieve

Trading Boy Wonder to Boy's Night Out, and firing the rest.

I have a soft spot for tall filipino boys, what can I say.

Voodoo

posted by Voodoo Child @ 10:22 AM

Music: Brian McKnight - One Last Cry
Setting: All white, and I am wearing white clothes. You know, like a B-Mac video.

Thanks for the memories ya'll. See you on FRIENDSTER. If you can find Char, I'm her friend Les.

btw, recently moved to Los Angeles. If you're from here, suggest me places to go.

posted by lester @ 7:56 PM

You're All Fired (except Ukulele)

Auditioning new writers NOW. Send me email (with short introduction and WHY you want to get on here to vent your spleen about your single life) to get on board.

Remember, must be single, Asian, and willing to write at least weekly.

Thanks,
Voodoo

posted by Voodoo Child @ 9:53 AM

Ok well I hope you guys are not getting sick of me posting. But I haven't posted in a while so...the saga continues with this ukulele man I met at the cafe...

I BLEW IT
A few weeks ago, I hadn't intended to go to uke night at the cafe, but...ukulele man asked me to go. So, I showed up late after my radio show. Everything was going great. After the uke session, we sat at one of the tables and talked a little bit. (I hope it didn't show, but I had butterflies the entire time!) So we talked about a lot of stuff...it was nice. We ended up walking out of the cafe together. As we stood outside the cafe door, he asks, "hey, what are you gonna do now?"

"Go home," I replied, being that it was already almost 10pm.

"Would you like to come out to dinner with me and my friend visiting from LA?," he asks.

"Sure," I replied.

So we went on to discuss where him and his friends wanted to go. And he gave me his number, which I THOUGHT I saved into my phone.

The last thing he says to me when we part from the front of the cafe is, "okay, call me if you want to go."

Since I knew they were going to eat somewhere near my house, I drove home, brought my things inside and went to call ukulele man. As I opened my flip phone and looked down at the display, I gasped in horror. My heart almost simultaneously stopped as my chest tightened at the realization that I did not SAVE his phone number when I put his information into my phone. AAAaaaahhhhh! Those darn flip phones! In all my nervous excitement, I retraced my steps in my mind and saw myself just closing the cover instead of saving his number. Then, the last thing he said to me kept ringing in my ear, "okay, call me if you want to go"... "call me if you want to go"..."call me if you want to go"...."call me if you want to go".....aaahhhhh

The sad thing was, there was no other way for me to get a hold of him. I blew it.

After an hour or two...I finally calmed down and accepted the fact that there was nothing I could do about the situation short of going to every restaurant/diner on Geary to look for them. But, I thought that would by psychotic.

The next day, I ended up emailing him the following morning. I just didn't want ukulele man thinking I was so rude to not call and let him know if I was or was not coming or that I was a flake OR that I just didn't want to go - which we all know was not the case.

I got an email reply back later that morning from him. Whew...to my relief, although I still think I blew it, admitted that he forgot to get my cell number so he can call me. I still felt like I blew it though.

NO EXPECTATIONS w/ a glimmer of hope
So I'm trying to keep myself grounded through all this. I almost expect that we're going to be just "pals" which is good. Another friend is always a plus. But a boyfriend would be nice too. A few weeks have past since the night I blew it and he still IMs me and has planned to go to some of the same events in the near future. He's even gonna come on my radio show at the end of the month. And out of the blue, last night he asked - almost told me he's gonna take me out to dinner after that show. I couldn't help but giggle with unexpected joy when he asked me because we had already said good bye and parted ways when he turned around to ask me.

"OH and on the 30th..." he called across the street for my attention.

I stood in the middle of the street thinking he was going to ask me something else about the show as he paused.

"Ya?" I replied to him as he stood on the corner.

"after the show..let's go out to eat. I'm taking you out to dinner" he continues.

I catch myself giggling and realized I didn't answer. With a smile on my face (trying to still stay composed), "Sure, just call me tomorrow."

So today, he's stressing over a report he has to put together and finish today. In the back of my mind I still wonder if he's gonna be the future prince ukulele. But for now, getting to know him is just fine with me.

posted by Ukulele Princess @ 2:50 PM