Charity Work
Lani earned her first director position with this charity, which is organizing Lapu Lapu Day and working on building the Filipino Community Centre.
What is Filipino BC?
Lani's favourite colour was pink only a few years ago, but for most of her life, this was Lani's favourite colour.
What is Red?
Lani played the lead character in this play about a girl who fell down a rabbit hole.
What is Alice in Wonderland?
This Vancouver community centre is where Lani attended pre-school, where she got to ice skate every Friday.
What is Trout Lake Community Centre?
After her aunt won free tickets to a concert, this was Lani's first concert: floor seats to see the artist who wore a meat dress.
Who is Lady Gaga?
In her first six months at St. John Ambulance, Lani was recognized for selling $50,000 worth of these life-saving devices.
What are automated external defibrillators (AEDs)?
This musical is Lani's favourite because it starred some of her favourite Filipino Broadway stars and featured one of her favourite musical songs, "Movie in My Mind." The story is about the story of a young Vietnamese woman and her experiences during the Vietnam War.
What is Miss Saigon?
Lani played this annoying Peanuts character who tormented her friends, specifically Charlie Brown.
Who is Lucy?
This stuffed giraffe with no eyes was Lani's favourite stuffie growing up, receiving it after winning her first claw machine game when she was 2.
Who is Lucy?
This was the age when Lani give her first ever impromptu performance on stage in front of an audience at church.
What is one years old?
Lani helped organize the Vancouver branch of this global awareness event, where participants walked silently in single-file lines through downtown Vancouver to raise awareness about human trafficking.
What is Walk for Freedom?
This is one of Lani's favourite movies about a group of survivors trying to escape a zombie apocalypse in Korea.
What is Train to Busan?
In Grade 9, Lani's school choir got to go on a trip and perform at this magical place.
What is Disneyland?
This is the grade where Lani started going by Lani, after being known as Hilani by her school friends.
What is Grade 7?
Now hanging in the apartment, Lani's first artwork she collected is a piece that speaks on having a relationship with God while dealing with mental health. The art piece features a hand drawing of this.
Lani was elected co-president of this high school club supporting a BC children's charity but became co-vice president due to a rigged election.
What is Variety Club?
According to this year’s Spotify Wrapped, this song was Lani’s top song, listened to over 1,700 times. It was also the most popular song from the musical based on the iconic movie starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams.
What is My Days from The Notebook Musical?
Lani sang this song in high school for a singing competition, which features a rap by an artist who now goes by Qveen Herby.
What is Brokenhearted by Karmin?
Lani jumped off this and ended up breaking her arms on Easter Sunday.
What is a Slide?
You may think Lani's first job was working at Cactus Club, but actually, she worked this role seasonally to fill in for her auntie in an office in Downtown Vancouver.
What is Administration Assistant?
This charity was the focus of Lani's first fundraiser in 2010, during which she personally baked 500 cupcakes to raise money for a drought relief effort in Africa.
What is The Red Cross?
This is Lani's favourite book, gifted to her by Sushanth. Lani loves it so much that she now buys all the copies in the bookstore and gifts them to people who want to know more about God's whimsical love.
What is Love Does by Bob Goff?
Lani sang on the track and was awkwardly featured in the music video of this 12-year-old lesser-known song by Sarah McLachlan, when she attended her music school.
What is Find Your Voice by Sarah McLachlan?
Lani had two imaginary friends growing up; one was Hannah, and the other had a unique rhyming name.
What is Dodah?
This is the name of Lani's first business venture in high school, where she sold sweet cupcakes and cakes.
What is Sweet Hopes?