Twitter Updates for 2008-05-07

  • The next 48 hours are going to be non-stop: work, drive, rehearsal, drive, sleep, drive, work (client presentation), drive, rehearsal, drive #

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I am supposed to get on stage in front my Mom on Mother’s Day and I am flipping the heck out.

So one of the crazy things I got involved with promptly after graduation is this Mother’s Day performance at the Pacific Asia Museum my friend Andrea Apuy is co-directing.

It’s called “Chinese American Stories: My Mother” and since it’s on Mother’s Day, I’ve invited my Mom to see it.

That’s right… I’m getting on stage and telling a story about my mother… with my Mom in the audience! Am I insane!? I feel as nervous as I did in second grade when I was forced to enter speech contests in Chinese School (more like pronunciation contests, because we’d recite poems and stories and stuff; not usually things we wrote ourselves) and had to speak on stage in front of my parents and all the parents of all the other students. Nerve-racking!

Except now I’m doing this supposedly willingly and of my own free will. I blame the decision on the delirium due to lost brain cells during my final semester of MBA school.

Anyway, I’ll be telling a story that has been previously told on this blog, but it’s a story that was meant to be read on the page (or screen, rather), so even though the story was already written, I’ve had to do a lot of “re-working” of this thing.

Oh yeah, there is a also great cast of Chinese Americans who will also share stories for and about their mothers, so it’s not just me who will be up there. (And Taiwanese American Joz will temporarily overlook being lumped in as a Chinese American, for this performance only.)

Here’s the cast listing:
Henry Ong
Judy Soo Hoo
Anna Gee
Marshall Wong
Linda Chong
Ann Lau
(Me)
Denesa Chan
Joyce F Liu
Ewan Chung
Andrea Apuy
Regina Cheng-Sheu
Elbert Traister
Howard Ho

If you come, it would be a great way to spend Mother’s Day afternoon. I suggest brunching in Old Town Pasadena, coming to the Museum and then wandering the Pacific Asia Museum for a bit before the 2pm performance.

Doesn’t that sound like a lovely way to spend an afternoon with Mom?

Flyer for May 11, 2008, Mother\'s Day performance

Chinese American Stories: My Mother”
Sunday, May 11, 2008 from 2-4pm
Mother’s Day Performance
A presentation of community, family and personal memories collected in a writing/oral history workshop by playwright Henry Ong.

Free with museum admission; call 626.449.2742 ext. 31 to RSVP.

Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101

Museum Admission
$7 for adults, $5 for students/seniors

Parking: Free parking is available in museum parking lot, located on corner of Los Robles and Union in Pasadena

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-05-05

    • Post at LA Metblogs by Joz: Best headline of the day: Cops Say Wrong-Way Drunk Driver Is Also Shot Twice http://tinyurl.com/5pmdno #

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    Arrrgh

    Entire post written.

    Eaten by WP.

    GAH!

    Going to bed now.

    Twitter Updates for 2008-05-03

    • on the plane in Sacramento. Heading back to LA now. #
    • just landed. #
    • Back in LA. Home sweet home. #
    • yelping.. Starbucks - Prairie City & Iron Point - Folsom (3/5) on Yelp.com: It’s a Starbucks, .. http://tinyurl.com/3owtwo #
    • yelping.. Alamo Rental (3/5) on Yelp.com: Fresh off my San Antonio trip where I rented from Al.. http://tinyurl.com/4k9k4n #
    • Back from dinner. Yum. But wow that was a late dinner. #
    • Ha! "To do" note I wrote to myself on Thursday afternoon: "pack, shower, finish stuff, kiss yoshi, eat something." Ridik. #

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    Twitter Updates for 2008-05-02

    • waiting to board my flight to Sacramento. #
    • omg. A big ol’ "don’t you know you smell like ASS?" how grateful I was to be smelling jetfuel while walking the Tarmac. Much preferable! #
    • landed in Sacto. Avoiding ASS smell guy. Ew. Seriously foul. #
    • Is twitter down? #
    • I hate sleeping alone in hotel rooms. #
    • yelping.. Courtyard by Marriott Sacramento Folsom (4/5) on Yelp.com: Here on a business trip. .. http://tinyurl.com/63on3l #
    • Whoa. Way past bedtime. #

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    May Day 2008

    Ok, so I’d like to keep playing hooky from writing in my blog because it was nice to be on vacation from it. I know the Twitter posts are short and boring, so I guess I’ll get back into the swing of things by writing something that actually resembles a blog post.

    A lot of things have happened since graduation, which was only 2 or 3 weeks ago. I’m still working on my thank you notes and other correspondence.

    My social calendar has kept me insanely busy, but I think I need to tone it all down and spend a little more time at home.

    Work has been keeping me extremely busy. In fact, I’m sitting at the airport right now, waiting for a flight that is going to take me up to Sacramento for client meetings all day tomorrow.

    In other news, my Grandma is in the hospital again. I found out late last night that they took her to the ER, I’m not sure why. I won’t be back in LA until late Friday night, so I won’t be able to visit this weekend.

    Well the plane is here, so off I go…

    Twitter Updates for 2008-04-30

    • What happened to April? Seriously. Who took it from me?!?!?!?! Where did it go!?!?!? #
    • yelping.. Pepperdine University (5/5) on Yelp.com: Pros:
      1) Beautiful campus!
      2) Pretty good s.. http://tinyurl.com/5y4wmg #
    • Sleepy sleepy sleepy time. #
    • Awake early to follow the fire at Hollywood & Vine. From my desk, of course. My write-up at LA Metblogs: http://tinyurl.com/63onuq #

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    Twitter Updates for 2008-04-29

    • Midnight. Just spent Monday night having drinks at The Well & Hotel Fig with folks from LA Metblogs. And I rode the Metro, too! #
    • Today is a Scissor Sisters day. #
    • does not want to hear from Efi about things that people get stuck up their asses (literally). I DON’T CARE! STOP SHARING! Stop, stop, stop! #

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    Twitter Updates for 2008-04-27

    • Barely recovered from my very busy Saturday: 12p picnic, 2p rehearsal, 5 p party. Allergy attack made me miss the karaoke birthday at 10p #
    • @seanbonner Scoops is open on Sundays from 2-6 in the afternoon. #

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    Twitter Updates for 2008-04-26

    • It took 11 hours but the novacaine finally wore off! I can feel my mouth! I have lips again! Now off to find Yoshi to kiss; gotta test out! #

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    Twitter Updates for 2008-04-25

    • Lunch today with Royce at "our place" Roscoe’s on Pico. Scoe’s #1 & #2. His w/ a side of mac n cheese. Mine w/ greens. Diet Cokes for both. #
    • Got home not too long ago from Carly Milne’s book launch party. Her book is entitled "Sexography." Carly rocks! #
    • My dentist felt so bad that I was in a little bit if discomfort that he kept petting my hair and kissed my forehead! He’s the best!!!!! #
    • Right now I cannot feel the left side of my face. Where’d it go?!?! #

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    Twitter Updates for 2008-04-24

    • Dinner with yoshi and outoutblogger at celadon. Tapas. Yum! #

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    Twitter Updates for 2008-04-22

    • yoshi is watching some show where some idiot gets a cannonball shot at his nads. yoshi is laughing hysterically at his stupidity #

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    Twitter Updates for 2008-04-21

    • dinner in Hollywood. Miceli’s in memory of John Ingram’s birthday #
    • how can I possibly be ready for bedtime already? It’s only 9:30! Of course, we woke up early this morning but still… #
    • Playing with my Zombie on Facebook before turning in for the night. So early! #
    • @Cruftbox. Congratulations, Uncle!!! #
    • 7am appt at the dentist #

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    Joz is a very bad blogger!

    I’m just freakin’ exhausted!

    April has been an absolute whirlwind month and frankly, I deserve a break.

    I’ve been trying to keep up with the little things via Twitter and Flickr and Delicious, but I know that these types of things are not the same as me sitting down and devoting a few minutes to, oh, actually WRITING something.

    I miss blogging. But I need this right now.

    Anyway, hopefully you’ll be back when I come back.

    And yes, I’ll definitely be back.

    Twitter Updates for 2008-04-20

    • Saturday of love. Dropped EB off at Union Station, met w/ Mom & Bro to chant for Dad, lunch, visit Grandma, home with Yoshi. Love! #
    • Attempting to clean my nightmare of a desk. Going through a stack of business cards I needed to put into my rolo. #
    • I paid attention in high school math: a=60, b=77, c=?. a²+b²=c². a²=3600, b²=5929, c²=9529. c=97.61" Finding size of our projected screen #
    • Writing thank you notes for people who attended my graduation party last weekend. Priority: people who have gifts. :) #
    • Was waiting for a parking space at the supermarket and a stupid bitch in a white car drove around my car and stole the space! BITCH!!! #

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    Twitter Updates for 2008-04-18

    • Random note written on post-it: (Date unknown) Two glasses of wine @ interview. Out w/ Rebecca. New York bars close @ 5am! Slept. #
    • I broke my left thumbnail earlier this evening. OW! Now my fingernails are all uneven. :( #

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    Twitter Updates for 2008-04-16

    • Cricket in the office, down the hall. chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp… #
    • @jaybushman CHUCK D!?!? #

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