Hey!!! I'm Sandy too!!!

As cheesy as it sounds, the story behind Sandy is...that I was conceived after my parents watched "Grease." Sad, isn't it?

Grace is my first middle name--I was named after an aunt.

Rosa Maria are from my grandmothers. Rosa after my paternal grandmother, and Maria from my maternal.

Kalikolehua means "the blossom of the Lehua flower." The Lehua is Madame Pele's flower, and being that my father's family is from the Big Island, my aunt [who gave me that name] wanted me to have it.

Sachie in Japanese means "happy child." My grandmother insisted that I have a Japanese name, and hopefully I've lived up to that name.

Gamatero is my mom's family name, and it's custom to carry it in most Filipino families.

You can imagine how long my name is on my birth certificate...and it was a bitch trying to fit all those names on forms and isht!!!