just call me Lulu.

In the past, the misguided and confused have told me that I resemble Lucy Liu and Sandra Oh.



Last I checked my eyes were not as slanted as Lucy's, and my face looked more like a tomato than a yam, like Sandra's. Hell, at one point in time, there was a girl on Barney (I think her name was Min), and people said I looked like her (maybe, minus the bangs...).


I had not had a case of mistaken identity in awhile...until today, that is. The lady working the fitting room at Old Navy insisted on keeping me 5 minutes to tell me how uncanny the resemblance was between me and a character on Nickelodeon - Lulu from True Jackson VP.


She was so animated while convincing me of this resemblance, that I was thinking it was only a matter of time before she whipped out a Sharpie and had me autograph her shirt. She continued telling me how if her daughter were present, she would be ecstatic and doing flips around the store. You can only imagine my reaction when I came home to Google image this Lulu character. I mean, I know I look young...but come on, a 16 year old Filipino?

I guess it could be worse. She could have been way off the map and told me I looked like Dora the Explorer. Though the animated Latina does have a best friend named Boots the Monkey, which I think is pretty damn cool.