My busmate gave me a flower today. It’s sitting in a cup of water by my phone.
I met her the first day that I took the bus. She was very friendly and helped me get off at the right stop, since it was her stop. Then we discovered that we work for the same company.
Now she is my friend, She is very careful for me on the bus, and when I get on, she makes sure to point out a good seat for me, if the one next to her is taken.
Once, when I was sitting next to her, we passed by the chinatown farmer’s market. I told her that I was fascinated by the different asian fruits and vegetables, but I had no idea how to cook them. She said she was philipina, and she knew how to cook all kinds of things.
This led naturally to a later lunch date…We had dim sum. It was great! she showed me the best places to go. Since I usually am intimidated by the different foods, I was really happy to have her there.
But today, she brought me a flower! It’s very beautiful and it smells really nice. She called it a Camia.
I’d never heard of that kind of flower before, and since her accent is a little thick, I wasn’t sure that i had heard the name right.
But I found out about it on the net:
That was ALL I could find on google.
But that makes it seem more rare and special. Only philipino people know about camia.
And me.
Wow! I thought I was one of the few that have heard my name. My name is the hardest name out there! No one can ever pronounce it, nor has anyone ever heard of it. I am part Philipino, so it’s not so weird to people from the Philippines. I just thought this was great, finding something on the internet with my name in it. Camia is a very different name, and am glad I am the only one I know with it.
Amazing. Camia is my middle name…but I am not Phillipino. Glad to know it has such a wonderful meaning.
Lol. I’m half filipino, my name is Camia (Mia 4 short) and I decided to do a search on my name and came up with this and a type of wood 😉 Lol.
why the camia flower named camia
Just had a baby girl Christmas Day 2003, decided to name her after a cousin who passed several years ago, changed spelling to Camiah. This flower apparently grows not only in the Philippines, by Hawaii and Guam as well.
I am utterly stunned to find out that my name is the name of a beautiful flower and that there are other women out there with the same name. All of my life I have never met another woman with this name. I am happy to know that I am not the only one to which the compliment has been bestowed of owning the name of a beautiful flower in a very beautiful section of the world.
Some of you may not be old enough to remember the show Hawaii 50, but there was a character called Camia. Although i am not sure of the spelling. But several people have told me that in a Hawaiian dialect it is what you say to entice one towards the sea.
hi i was looking up camia on google cause that’s my name too! and then this came up. i was like oh my gosh what’s going on?! i thought it was someone doing stuff on me. but now i know that there’s other women that have this name too. i am filipina. thank you and just so you know youre blog came up on google!
believe it or not, i came across your blog googling the words “camia flowers.” your site came up high (first page). I am filipino as you can guess (mostly filipinos know of this flower). I was in Google because I remembered my deceased mother and her garden in the Philippines.
btw, yours is an interesting blogsite. I will visit it again. Thank you.
My name is also Camia. My familt immigrated to the United States in the early 1900’s to New York City. At last count there are 30 of us in New york, North Carolina, and Georgia. I first learned of the Camia Flower when I googled our name. Your site introduced it to me. Hope you are doing well. J.G.