Sunday, July 30, 2006

Hello. That's all I ever say...

Hey. Did you ever stop and think about these complicated questions?

Why do we drive in parkways, and park in driveways?

What does cheese when you take a picture of it? "Human?"

Do geese get people bumps?

Why do feet smell and noses run?

Answer that, but first, did you know.....

It's polite to arrive 15 minutes late to parties in India.

When in Portugal, stick the tip of your index finger in your ear, and kiss it, if you enjoyed you meal.

AND NEVER MOP YOUR PASTA SAUCE UP WITH BREAD IN ITALY!!! It only seems natural to do so, since it's yummy, but you shouldn't. They're very touchy about they're cooking.

The lowest sound ever recorded was the sound of a "singing" black hole.

Yup.

And one more kinda gross thing. We all know that if you drop a bannanna on the floor, it'll get bruised (and you probably won't want to eat it anymore...).

Well we all know that if you punch someone in the arm, it'll get bruised, and the same goes for a bannanna! I have this wrong image in my head of a good bannanna, not bruised, being punched, and then a bruise appears! I know it's not that bad, but....

Whatever. Seeya!

Mangez sain, tout le vous ! Il est nécessaire pour maintenir un style de vie sain.

Bye ! ! !


| la M?sica | "Mad Season" by - Matchbox 20


Saturday, July 29, 2006

Feasting on Asphalt

Anyone else watch the first episode? This is my new favorite food/travel show! And I love it's a REAL indie show, that he really only has like 6 guys with him and they really just pop in to random places and his film setups are so simple. Ahhhh.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ab

Friday, July 28, 2006

Hey.

Hey! Just wanna tell you all that I'm in production for a comic series, to be published on this very blog for your enjoyment, called Super Donald. This was an idea put into my head when I drew Stephie a picture of Donald Duck in a superhero costume, with his sidekicks, Sora and Goofy. I hope to have at least one comic put on the blog every month, depends on wether or not I get lazy.

Luvvers--

--KIKO

P.S. If ya'll don't know who Sora is-- and I know Stephie and the rest of us here in New Bedford do-- then click HERE.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Home Sweet Home

So I'm Back at Home in Fremont and glad to be back but I REALLY miss the Bells a lot. They had grown to be my family away from my family, my home away from home. This vacation has inspired me to start planning our Fam Fam Cuz Club Reunion. When will this be? I have no idea but less than nine years I promise. It will happen.

Family forever.

"You must learn to dance with yourself before you dance with others."
-Stephie to Rosie

la Musica Album-Something For Everyone (The Bells and Stephie Mix)

Sunday, July 23, 2006

Cousin Collage!

Here's the collage I made. If your don't like the picture I used, feel free to send me a different one. Hope you like it.

Original Size:


Top Row: Catie, Aaron, Kiko, Mercy
Middle Row: JM, Casey, Sera, Tina, Rosie, Tommy
Bottom Row: Jakey, Jimmy, Carmen, Stephie, Michael









Smaller size:










| la Musica | "A Whole New World" by - Aladdin and Jasmin

Friday, July 21, 2006

TGIF!

Man, I miss the days of TGIF on ABC. Those were the days when TV was still decent. Sitcom TV. Urkel. Michelle Tanner. The "new" Brady Bunch. Of course, only a handful of my cousins probably even remember those days. Wow. I make myself sound old. Ok. The end.

| la Musica | "Volare" by the Gipsy Kings

this'll make your brain itch.

The Pipettes!

Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me!

Super catchy!

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Happy 16 1/2 birthday Steph!

A whole half year older! Although this was at like midnight so maybe a few minutes belated. Whatever, aging is fun!





| la Musica | "Seasons of Love" - Rent

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

So I'm back...

I got back last night, after what my friend Jen would call a "harrowing journey". Haha, it wasn't that bad, although the delayed flight did put a damper on my day. Oh well, what can you do. The flight from London to New York was fine, except for the fact that it took an extra 30 minutes to take off because of the queue and take off order on the jetway. I ended up watching Ice Age 2, V is for Vendetta, and part of She's the Man. They served a decent piece of chicken with noodles and an interesting looking cherry or blueberry dessert thing. I don't know - I spit out the berry looking things. I'd much rather have some of the culinar delights that all the Bells + Stephie have been whipping up.

Then I found out that my flight from New York to San Francisco was delayed. It was nice to touch down on American soil for the sheer fact that now I could use my cell phone for it's included service plan - not an astronomical amount for a 5 minute call. Although, I knew that the moment I set foot back into this country, I was returning to the Monkey President State. If you could see all the European newspaper's photos of Bush with Russian President Putin... you'd be embarrassed too. I'm embarrassed he's our president to begin with, but that's another story. Anyway, I digress. The flight from NY to SF was pretty crappy. The seat were uncomfortable, and all they served on domestic flights now are drinks. I'm very happy I bought a bag of chips and a bottle of water before getting on the plane. I would have died otherwise. So I'm back.

I have other stories and anecdotes to share, as well as pictures. I will try to get those things done by the weekend. But for right now I should eat and do my laundry. Stinky clothes = not fun.

A la prochaine....
| la M?sica | "Plane" by Jason Mraz

Monday, July 17, 2006

Fam Fam Cuz Club

Fam Fam Cuz Club

Nice to see all of you connecting. It remindss me of when we were small.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could get all the cousins in the Philippines involved too?

From Aunty Maria, the oldest cousin of all.....

Sunday, July 16, 2006

1st post

Dis b my first post. Nothins new here w/me what about everyone else??? I really have nothin to say. Bye Bye
-Jimmy-

Friday, July 14, 2006

Check this out!

I thought, since you've seen the Potter Potter Potter song, you should see the original, the Badger Badger Badger song.

Au revoir ! Si vous recherchez quelque chose sucre glacé, par un beignet.

KIKO

From the deepest corners of my mind...

Hola.

Guess what? I have something to show you all! Yes, I do. If you all saw "Family you are mighty," then click this.

Au revoir ! mangez quelques crêpes, elles sont très savoureux !


KIKO

Thursday, July 13, 2006

This is what Stephie and I did at 1 in the morning...

Luckily there were only enough for 1 per person.



Chocolate Empanadas from Good Eats

| la Música | Current: "Chief" by Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses
Previous: "Wild Honey" by U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

I'm in Europe!

Hello cousins.. I'm writing from a Paris internet cafe, that we took a 35 minute walk to from our hotel. Why did we walk? Well that's because the metro stops running in about 20 minutes, and I wanted to make sure that we'd be able to walk back when the metro closes.

Tomorrow is 14 juillet, not just any other day in France, but the Storming of the Bastille Day, also known as French Independence Day. Apparently a lot of things are supposed to be closed tomorrow, so we just might go sightseeing from the outside of all the monuments. We're also meeting up with my friend, FX, or "Francois" to the Bells and "Xavier" to Stephie, tomorrow for dinner and to watch the 14 juillet fireworks. It's a lot cooler here than in Nice and Lyon, but I think that's because we're more North. This 25 day adventure ends in 3 days!!Crazy! I will share my pictures and stories with you all when I get back.

Anyway - a bientot for now!

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

HAHA! CHECK THIS OUT!

Okay.... I know everybody saw Sera and Stephie's page of entertainment, and I assume, after watching The Little Girl Who Was Forgotten by Absolutely Everyone, Cupid's Last Stand, and going to Despair.com, you should get a little cheering up, plus a morale boost.

Love--

--Kiko

There's been a lot of food recently...

Between Stephie, jakey, and JM no recipe goes untested.

Random Facts

1- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. 2- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. 3- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. 4- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. 5- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 6- There are more chickens than people in the world. 7- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is"screeched." 9- All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on4:20. 10- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange,silver or purple. 11- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". 12- Where is the online database of new car lowest invoice prices?13- There are only 4 words in the English language which end in dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. 14- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 15- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. 16- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. 17- In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10. (so it looks like its smiling)18- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. 19- The characters Bert & Ernie on Sesame Street were named afterBert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It'sa Wonderful Life." 20- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. 21- A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds. 22- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 23- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. 24- In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. 25- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. 26- The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. 27- There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. 28- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. 29- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before itstarves to death. 30- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear. 31- Elvis had a twin brother named Aaron, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron: in honorof his brother. It is also misspelled on his tomb stone. 32- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants. 33- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killedin plane crashes. 34- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
35- Shakespeare invented the words "assassination" and "bump." 36- Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on one foot. 37- If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventuallyturn white. 38- Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 39- Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. 40- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language. 41- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, with the exception of North America. 42- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard. 43- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left. 44- A snail can sleep for 3 years. 45- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 byeliminating oneolive from each salad served in first-class. 46- The electric chair was invented by a dentist. 47- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with apopulation of 1,000 and a size of 108.7 acres. 48- "Go!" is the shortest complete sentence in the Englishlanguage. 49- No president of the United states was an only child.And last and definitely most important: 50- The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it!
THESE JUST IN...
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoidairborne particles resulting from the flush.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like beingseen wearing them in public.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left handed.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

Stephie's Elouai


This is an Elouai doll I made of myself.

Visit elouai.com and make one for yourself or someone else! =)

I need pictures, please

Hey cousins!!!

I'm in need of pictures of each one of us so that I can make a collage of all the cousins. So send all your favorite pictures to me please. Send them to me at stephron18@comcast.net.

Thanks,
Stephie

Heya, Fam Fam!

Kiko here, I just got an account on Blogger.com.

Hey! I can speak backwards! Check it out!

Evah a ecin yad!

Ha! Pretty 1337, huh? SEEEEEE YAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Still testing

Potter potter potter!

Testing, testing, 1,2,3.

When in New Hampshire, wear mosquito repellant or you will deeply regret it.

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