I Saw Snow Falling…
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This past weekend was pretty action packed. So here is a recap:

On Thursday, I had to wake up at 5am to go shoot a T-Mobile commercial. 5am! Ugh. I was dead tired but thankfully, the shoot location wasnt too far. Basically, this commercial is where me and 5 other guys are cocky basketball players, talking shit to Dwayne (Flash) Wade.  No! D-wade was not at the shoot. I am sure by now you get the idea that these shit talkers have the basketball prowess of a special olympics participant. You are absolutely right.  The put me in a headband, tight jersey, shorts, and calf-high socks to make me look ridiculous.  Being the professional that I am, I took everything in stride. I was cocky as can be and boy did I talk some shit. I am never really excited to do commercials because it wont help me career in the sense that I will be famous for them. Instead, commercials are a way for me to stay above the poverty line for about 3-4 months. Yay for being able to eat!

After the 16 hour days of shooting, I was damn tired but I had to pack up and head to the airport. Being a heterosexual  guy, my packing abilities are quite awful. I basically stuffed my suitcase with merchandise in hopes that I would be able to sell tshirts and my dvd. (Available Here) After doing laundry and packing, I headed to my homie’s house because he lives 5 minutes away from the airport. Thanks Bobby and Pedro!

So after a layover and 3 hour flight delay in the AZ, I finally got to New Jersey. Good ole shitty Newark Airport. The reason for my trip to Jersey was for the ECAASU conference. It was a good conference. Lots of people and most of them showing me some love. Shout outs to the ECAASU staff members especially James, Jodie and Nilam for pretty much making sure everything was ok.  They fed me, gave me water, and pretty much pampered me like Im some kind of DIVA. 

So as soon as I got to the conference, I had to go on stage and host the Friday Talent Night. I must say that there were some decent performers. But some of the performances were pretty bad. I shouldn’t shit on other people because it may be their dream. But here is the thing. I dont care if you suck or not at what you do. I do care that you think you are awesome if  you are not. Do not be bringing an entourage and expect to be pampered unless you have been in this game for a while. I am going on 9 years with this stand up business and to be honest, I’m still a kid compared to most working comedians. Regardless of how good I think I am, I know that I will get my ass kicked by a lot of comedians out there. (not physically but comedically).  Anyways, the thing that irked me is that some of these performers acted like they deserved some praise and accolades.  In case some of the performers from Friday night read this, I want to stress that I am quite positive that I have been doing this longer than most of you and you understand that regardless of how good you are, you will always look like an ass if you think you are the shit.

Now that I got that shit out the way, the crowd at the Friday show was pretty interesting. There was like people dressed in uniform in the front row. Westpoint, Navy, Coast Guard, etc. These fools were not laughing at my shit. There was this old white dude, who I assumed was some high ranking military dude. He didn’t even crack a smile. Jerk thru me off. But the rest of the audience was being pretty receptive so that was cool. I kept my set relatively clean because I was told there were a lot of advisors in attendance.

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That dope shirt I am wearing can be found at My Ninja Clothing!

After the show, I went to my hotel room and to my surprise, my room was right in the middle of other rooms filled with college kids attending the conference. The rooms next to mine were popping til 5am! I didn’t party with these kids because I had to sleep and even though they were pretty loud, I managed to get some shut eye.   

The next day, I woke up after about 3-4 hours of sleep. I had to do a workshop about Asian in the Entertainment Business. This was actually my first time doing something like this so it was a bit scary. I didn’t think that many people would show up so I had a room that would fit about 30 people. To my surprise, there were people camped outside about an hour before my workshop. We had to move to another room because there was about 80 or so people wanting to come into my workshop! I thought I did fucking awful and started mumbling things and going off on tangents but people still stuck around and only about 3 people fell asleep. Thanks Jerks! Next time, I will prepare better. With charts and shit!

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Me Sitting Like  Douchebag during my workshop. Ugh


After the workshop, I relaxed a little and had some dinner. It was hotel food so as you can imagine it to be not good. It made me wonder if there was ever any good hotel banquet food. Also, why is the main course always chicken? Anyways, the food was meh… I had a show that night so I had to go and prepare. I figured since the night before I was a bit clean, I was gonna let the crowd have it. Just completely get nasty on stage. To my surprise, they liked that shit.  Weird little fuckers…

The trippy thing about Saturday’s show was that I got to see the Hear and Now Theater Company. This group has been around for awhile. I actually saw them when they performed at my high school many moons ago. It was great to see them again after all these years and it was kinda inspirational to see that they are still going strong. You the man, John!

All in all, it was a fun conference. Met lots of good folks and saw some familiar faces. Shout outs to Phil Yu, Parry Shen, Rich Kiamco, and all the other cool people I saw there.

Oh, and after the show, it started snowing. It was the first time I saw snow fall. I just looked up at the sky to take in this foreign phenomenon and some people were asking me what the hell I was doing. To which I promptly replied mind your own fucking business.  Seeing snow fall was very uneventful compared to what I expected it to be. Oh well.

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