I mean, I still have KATRINA and I always communicate with ILOU. Same with JENSEN, Kuya ROMEL and sometimes with JENNY.
But things are not what it used to be....... not anymore.
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It was June 2004, when this family was formed. @ PUP. Out of 30 students [class BST1-1n batch 2008] 14 of them have shared same and common interests.. I am one of that 14 students. We all became friends easily. We felt like we all know each other for a long time. Because of the closeness that formed less than a week, we decided to have nicknames which we will used just within our group. Some of them came up with an idea that our group should be like a family. There should be a dad, mom, babies and so on... We all agreed to that.
But if we are a family, what should be our name?? We almost lost all of our brain cells thinking what should be the surname of our so called 'family'.
While exchanging ideas and opinions, Sabrina [I'll be starting using their names. XD], asked ME.
"Hey, how old are you again?... when was your birthday again..??"
"I stopped schooling for a year, so I think I'm a year older than most of you guys.. I was born 1986.." I answered.
"There you go. Because your a year older than us, we should call you GRANNY." Sabrina concluded.
"Granny??" I felt a lil' uneasy.. But GRANNY isn't that bad, I thought.
"OK.. Then I will be the grandmother of the family. So you guys will call me GRANNY from now on? Am I right..??" I asked them.
"YES~!" ........ And they all agreed. ^^
Well, back to the problem, still we don't know what surname to use. But since i'm already the GRANNY of the group, they let me pick what name to use.. I was a Vanness WU addict way back then, and they knew how much I adore vanness. So they let me use WU as the surname. LOL. I know it's kind of stupid and so dorky~ But that's how 'family WU' got their surname.
The moment we already had a surname, we then discussed the 'designation' of the 'family'.
This is the result:
FAMILY WU
Grandmother- ME a.k.a 'Granny'
Grandfather- Vanness WU. [LOL ^_*]
VELLETTE [Lhet]- only son of Granny and Vanness Wu. The only heir of 'WU group of Companies'. XD
KATRINA [Kat]- the legal wife of VELLETTE and they have two sons namely:
1.MARILOU [iLou]- and 2.JOYCE [Bunso]- Granny's legal grandchildren.
MARY JANE [Jane]- Katrina's only sister.
JENSEN [Mudra]- the 'illegal' wife of VELLETTE. XD whom she bear 7 AB-normal kids. [Hope I didn't forget any of their names] They are: [random order~]
LORRAINE [Rhaine]- as far as I can remember she is the oldest.
MICHELLE [Mitch] - She looks like VANNESS wu in person.XD
KARRYLYN [Kha]- the rebel child.
JENNY [Jen]- abnormal~ XD
SABRINA [Sab]- super abnormal.
AMABEL - can't remeber much. Coz she isolates herself from us before..
GAZELYN [Gazelle]- the youngest. I was deceived coz she's a big girl yet she's the youngest. XD
And there you go. That's how it all started...
2004. Happy days~~
Months have passed. We were able to keep the unity of our family. We became intact.. We were always there for each other. If one of us is sad, the rest should do something to cheer up the sad family member. If one is happy, all are happy. We share each others secrets. Just like a real family..
But not until we reach our 2nd semester of our Freshmen college year.
Mitch met an accident . We thought that it's only minor wounds or something that she got.. but hell... She was dragged by a motorcycle and wasn't able to walk for months. Her parents did not allow her to attend school until her legs will get better...
With what happened to Mitch, our family almost crashed~ We lost contact with her for almost half of year
I thought that's the only challenge my family would experience..
Few months after that incident, Rhaine then decided to transfer to another school. She wanted to take another course. And same with Mitch, we also lost contact with Rhaine..
2005. Our Sophomore year in college, another challenge crossed path with my family. Sabrina didn't enroll for the semester because she already settled down.. [I don't want to elaborate any further coz this one is a lil' sensitve~]. It created chaos within my family. I mean even my entire class was affected with that sudden decision of Sab~. We were so clueless at first about her reason for not enrolling. And when we found out about it, our family was officially destroyed~
Members fought with each other because Half of the family knew what exactly happened to Sab while the rest are clueless.
That was the biggest challenge (I think) my family WU went through..
It was soo stressful. We then also questioned our trust for each other. It was so hard. As the granny of the family, it's not easy for me to see them like that. I even asked myself if I was able to handle the situation really well...
I don't think so.. because few weeks after that, VELLETE , my one and only son, decided to step out of the family. She said she wanted to be free and do something else aside from hanging out with us. Honestly, it hurts a little. But what can I do, it's her life and I have no rights to manipulate it or stop her from doing what she wanted to do.
BUT hearing it from her, I also felt happy. It's not easy for her to tell us that she already wants to be out of the group. I just realized how brave she was. I mean, for some people, they will just hold it back and keep it to them selves that they are not enjoying what they are doing anymore. But Vellette is different, she expressed herself clearly to us that she wanted to hang out with another group but she promised she will never lose contact with us..
She kept that promise.. We still talk to her but rarely goes out with her.
Family WU who is originally with 14 members are now down to 10.
The feeling was awkward when your classmates would ask you with what happened to your group. They would even tease us coz we were like a broken family. Pfff... the hell with them who cares~.
They care.. Uhmmm... Family WU was little influential not just within the classroom but within the college community. How influential are we?? My professors calls me by my nickname Granny.. Even Jensen is called Mudra by our profs. [LOL at that~]. And Kuya ROMEL has been trying a lot to be a part of our family. [ dba tama ako Ama.?? kinukulit mo pa si iLou about it, kaya lang ayaw nya kasi makikihati ka lang daw sa yaman ng angkan namin...XD]....
The challenge did not end there, 2nd semester of our Sophomore year, the highlights of our college life came. (Highlights as for me, kat and iLou...). The Korean exchange students befriended with us for the rest of their stay. Almost everyday, we would hang out with these Korean Oppa-deul. We accompany them around their city tours and they always invite us to have lunch and dinner with them. But I never thought that entertaining tourists can be such a big issue to my classmates, professors and other school staff.
We had no idea that my family has been the talk about of our college community. They've been thinking that we were selling ourselves to these foreigners so that we would hang out with them. They think smut against us. They think that what we do with the Koreans are obscene. And I don't even know where did they get that idea~.
If those accusations were for me, I think I can handle it. But seeing one of my family member, Jenny, cried over it, it's hitting below the belt.
Jenny is known in our school as a happy girl with a very deep faith in God. I admire her on how she embraces her beliefs. She ifluenced me alot in terms of spiritual issues. Obscene things are a big sin in her religion.
When Jenny cried over it, I thought to myself that it's really to much. Richie, one of our Oppa-deul, went to Jenny to stop her from crying. That moment, how I wish those people who think bad about my family and the foreigners could see how innocent Richie is hushing my friend from crying. Shame of me i wasn't able to hush her form crying. I almost broke down also. But instead of crying with her, I think of 'words of wisdom' to help my family calm down. I told them that those people who humiliate us are just envious of us. Coz they also wanted to hang out with our Oppas but our oppas chose us. They think bad things about us simply because they are people with green minds~~. Just like that. XD.
I just want to conclude that those bad people should really envy us because they have no idea how great Richie, RS, Big Jane, Jim, Eddie as a friend. They thought my family a lot about their culture and thru their actions my perceptions for Koreans have changed. They are just worth befriend-ing for.
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