[ She has absolutely no idea what a tiya is but she can use context clues to figure it out--family, it seems, no matter where you're from, are the same. She wonders if there's an overlap between Jewish family traditions and Manila's. Manilans? Either way, she wouldn't be surprised. ]

Completely expected where I'm from. [ New York, she means, and she gives a bit of a smile. ] At this point it's pretty relaxing, I've been trained to do this stuff for when I nabbed a husband. Gotta keep a man interested and part of that is throwing parties.