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Blah, I’ve been super bad about updating this blog - so instead of trying to do three smaller entries, here’s one super blog with the highlights from last week!

Hand Shoot with Paul Kuroda

I was lucky enough to shoot with Paul Kuroda, a Pulitzer-prize winning photographer this past week for my new hand modeling portfolio.

Here’s a couple behind-the-scenes pics of his studio:

The guys at work setting up the shot!

Here’s a very cute blown-up pic of Paul’s daughter! (Who showed up at the shoot! awww)

Here’s one of the images (un-retouched)

I also helped out my friend Ron shoot a mini-commercial in SF for Millennial Productions. Unfortunately, no action shots of me jumping out of the car

pretty view of the bay!

Guys setting up shop!

Creating a cam to follow me when I drive off the ledge! Kidding. Sort of…

And last but not least, I was the intrepid assistant for my friend, FC Wong, on a wedding show. I think my eyelids got burned during it @.@

Look at all the freeee cakes!

Aww, our cute little booth!

So pretty much that and a ton of auditions kept me occupied this past week. Hope next week is just as exciting!

I just had the immense pleasure of going to Youth Speaks Grand Slam Finals with Rachel and Ron and Ron’s friend Dan. Basically kids 13 - 19 work in workshops across the Bay Area and compete in different “slams” across the yay. The Grand Slam Final winner and finalists get to go to Chicago where they’ll be competing in a very cool international competition.

HOW AMAZING! Listening to kids pour their hearts out about their families, lives, racism, hometowns and the environment is truly moving.

The kids were great (and here’s their names…)

• Brian Yoo (OMG the winner and what a sweetheart)
• Melissa Aliu
• Mic Turner
• Ebony Donnley
• Mannie Rizvi
• Sojari Bradley
• Simone Crew
• Ashley Smiley
• Teruko Dobashi
• Bryant Phan
• Simone Bridges
• Devin Murphy
• Jordan Hadden
• Ben Turner
• Dominic Nicholas
• Hadeel Ramadan

Here’s some pics from the event…

The empty stage before the kids went on…

The very first slam poet of the night!

Ron, Dan, and Rach! Heads not to size.

So today I was at a shoot for CENSORED which will be airing after the summer on CENSORED network. Gotta love signing those NDAs. Anyways, I can say that I ate some pretty gross cold greezy Chinese food at this one restaurant in San Francisco Chinatown called Y Ben. And it was CRAMMED with old Chinese FOBs

Here’s a pick of the mock menu they gave us (that I couldn’t read)

And here’s a pick of me and my two tablemates, Doug and Doris (cute names)

Still kinda fun day and I got to practice speaking broken Mandarin Whoopee!!

In an effort to be more stupid spontaneous, I thought I’d tag along with my friend, Christina (from acting class), to an open call in Sacramento for UP ALL NITE, a new talk show by Deon Taylor.

Basically, we get to the mall (not knowing what to expect) and see this:

Empty stage.

Empty line.

Luckily, it DID fill up later - close to 100 peeps.

Ended up having to say hi to the audience, come up with a fake news story, andddd do a dance. At the end of my dance, the female host for the event was like “DAYUM, someone wants to get a BF here TODAY!” lol

ANYways, here’s Christina and me with our free coupons for McMuffins (?!?!) that we got…

Christina looking really excited.

I’m posing like it’s a gold card. Almost, dammit, almost.

Anyways, all and all a great time to make a complete fool of myself to a bunch of new strangers. HOORAYYYY!!

Oi! So I usually love the Food Network, but how did they let a woman like Sandra Lee. The premise of the show is that she doesn’t really cook and SO CAN YOU!

Here’s a few holiday cakes she made:

“Kwanza Cake” aka “I’ve never talked to a black person/someone who celebrates Kwanza in my life”

But who could forget her Hanukkah Cake?

And last but not least, her lovely “Heirloom Noel Cake” aka Yellow Atrocity!

And because I’m amused by the comments of the person who made this video:

SIGH.

On the up side here’s the trailer for the boxing movie I’m in!