Hi! Just another long-time visitor but new member...

I've been poking around the DA forums for several months now, learning what I can when I need some info. Special thanks to GlennD and Princess for their help with getting my back-up camera connected! Thanks to everyone else as well for all the help I've received here (even though none of you actually realized you were helping me! :) ). I'm hoping to stick around and maybe even be helpful once in a while. Just let me know if I'm ever out of line! :paranoid:

By the way, the greeting in the title of my post is from Guam, where I grew up after my family moved there from Manila. It basically means "Hello" in Chamorro, the native language in Guam and the nearby islands.

So . . . Hafa Adai! (Pronounced like "half-a-day")

Howdy....

I'm so proud of myself! I actually pronounced it correctly!!! :banana: (before I saw how)

You're almost local!! :D

Welcome and enjoy it here. I know someone who was born in Guam, he doesn't really talk to me anymore, though.

Sweet mother of love! You had an rx-2?

Welcome! Oh, I loved the movie cars...way cool.

Hey San Bruno, you're like 3 minutes away :lmao:

Thanks, everyone, for the welcome!

Princess -- You must be a linguist.

Amanda -- Maybe you should try to talk to him in Chamorro? :D

mwmcginn -- Actually went through two RX-2's; One in HS (Guam), and the second here in the Bay Area (college). Both were 4MT, and I learned to drive on them, which probably explains why I was drawn toward Honda's high-revving I4's early on.

stevencrosbie -- I enjoyed the movie, too, and I found it amusing to find my namesake (except for the missing "e" at the end of my name).

Ben -- Yeah, we're practically neighbors. Hope to see you around sometime!

I'm already enjoying it here. :nuts:

Amanda -- Maybe you should try to talk to him in Chamorro? :D

He's half Mexican and half native American, and he doesn't even know Spanish. I speak more Spanish than he does.

He grew up in Texas, he was a military brat, that's why he was born in Guam.

It's a lot more complicated than that, though. Check out the shoutbox, I go into it there.

Sorry for dredging up some unpleasant memories. Just have faith. Sometimes you have to let one door close, so you can discover another one that's being opened for you. :)