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Grassroots Day 9 - Clam Chowder & a Haunted Hotel
Friday, Oct 5, 2007 4:16AM / Standard Entry
This morning we took a train from NYC to Boston to speak to the students in the New England region. Lots of students from BU, Tufts, Harvard, MIT, etc. were in attendance. But what I'm about to talk about is a bit spooky. So if you're easily scared or frightened of supernatural tales, I suggest you stop reading now. If not, read on to find out about our creepy ass night in Boston.
This is the only "non creepy" photo from our Boston trip. It is Sung & I enjoying a nice and milky New England clam chowder before the eeriness of night set in...
I am convinced our hotel was haunted. Julie had arranged for Sung & I to share a room at this very old, 5 story B&B that was once a woman's college. It was designed very much like the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland...just dirtier. The second I walked in, I could just feel a disturbance in the air. Something was off. They gave Sung & I the back room at the very top of the hotel. Why put us there? All the other rooms on all the other floors were empty. Strange. Even stranger, I could not get my camera to take a normal picture of me. It was so creepy. I could take pictures of Sung & Julie in the hotel. But the second anyone tried to take a picture of me in the hotel, the photo would be too dark, too light, or have smears of something in frame. It was so so creepy. We tried shooting over and over and over again. It was like the Ring man...it was like some thing/being was preventing me from having my photograph taken normally. Here are some of those photos. Can you see a face to the left of me in the first pic?
I know this doesn't seem like a big deal, but we shot these photos like 50 times. This was the best of the lot."
Sung even felt "it". Here's Sung in his colonial bed. He doesn't even fit.
Sung & I both agreed there was some sort of presence on our floor. Sung was joking that perhaps it was a horny ghost and that we should just welcome it. Though I laughed, I didn't find it funny. I felt like someone was watching me all night long. I hardly slept a wink. Oh well, thank goodness we're headed back to NYC in the early morning. I don't think I could have spent another night in a haunted woman's college. Sweet dreams... : )
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Grassroots Tour Video - Our First 4 Days!!!
Tuesday, Oct 2, 2007 9:20PM / Standard Entry
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Grassroots Day 8 - Sleeping TV Interviews & Cuban Mojitos!
Tuesday, Oct 2, 2007 8:42PM / Standard Entry
Early morning TV interviews are an interesting thing...especially when one does not get much sleep before them. Things come out of your mouth, but you do not know what is really coming out of it. Hopefully Sung & I said something intelligent since NTDTV viewership is beamed globally via satellite to over 1.3 billion people. I think Sung & I discussed the health benefits of a vegan diet...or our love for the Animal Planet's "Meekrat Manor"...or something...
Sung & I, though awake, are technically asleep. We walk, yet we know not how...
Afterwards we had a nice lunch at some sort of restaurant resembling a garage and then met up with McCaleb back at our Hells Kitchen pad. But before we got too comfortable, we had to head on out again to the Upper East Side to speak to about 250 folks at the ImaginAsian Theater. An FTG shout out to the peeps, you know what I'm saying? We felt like rappers on MTV's TRL.
By the time any of us knew it, it was late night. How time flies when you're on the road. For the first time in over a week, we actually could hang out and enjoy a nice dinner. We met up with our good buddy SuChin Pak (she was doing MTV coverage of the whole Britney Spears losing children thing all day) at what may have been one of the best Cuban restaurants I have ever been to (it's called Ideya). I think all of us really needed to unwind cause we went through like 4 mojitos each before the main course! Arriba! Candi, our production designer, showed up in all her blonde haired glory. We found out it was her birthday so guess what...another round of mojitos! Anyway, we shared a few laughs, ate some very raw meat, and then headed back home. Tomorrow we're headed to Boston!
I am caught in between a sexy sandwich of Sung & SuChin. Why does Sung look like he wishes to eat me?
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Grassroots Day 7 - Run of Death, U Penn, and Sushi & Cookies!
Tuesday, Oct 2, 2007 1:19AM / Standard Entry
Sung & Roger contemplating a change in hairstyle
Today I went on a run with Sung. I have run with Mr. Kang many times. However, this is my first time running with him since he enrolled himself in some sort of clandestine, navy seal, black ops exercise program called Treadstone. Now I am no running god, but I do run trail marathons and am in ok shape. Usually one runs at a certain pace. Slower at first, higher for the main run, and then slower to cool down. Mr. Kang was not taught this logic at boot camp. Running with Sung is like running on a short-circuited treadmill. Fast, not so fast, super fast, really super fast, etc, etc, etc. Thank God Manhattan is an island. Without natural boundaries, I think Sung and I would have ended up in South America.
The gentleman with Sung is the train conductor. When he heard that Sung was on board, he came on back to ask for an autograph for his son. My only question is...who the heck was driving the train!?
After rubbing Ben Gay over what was left of my legs, we hopped a train toward Philadelphia to speak to the students at University of Pennsylvania. I must say, the students of UPenn kick ass! The room (which was a Wharton business school classroom btw) was totally packed and the energy was amazing! We had a fun Q&A with some of the best questions ever. The students then took us to another Wharton room for some cookies and sushi...a fine combination of fish and flour. All and all we had an amazing time at U Penn. We then took a late night train back to NYC where Julie, Sung, and I winded down our night with a meal of ribs and chicken and 1/8 of a beer. BTW, we just found out we made Page 5 of the U Penn Newspaper today. Rad. -Roger
U Penn KDPhi is in da house!
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Grassroots Day 6 - Tigers & Lychee Martinis
Monday, Oct 1, 2007 12:36AM / Standard Entry
Day 6 on the road and we are experiencing the beginning signs of fatigue and delirium. Sung is starting to speak in strange, Asianish tongues, Julie is hugging us less, and my eyes are sprouting veins larger than my heart valves. But the great thing is is that we're having an amazing time visiting all these student and community groups!
Our grassroots journey today takes us to Princeton N.J. to meet the many AA students at one of America's finest Ivy Leages. We hopped the New Jersey transit (a rather crappier Amtrak) and spent a wonderful Saturday afternoon hanging out with the Princeton students. But the coolest part of our trip was getting to eat at an official Princeton eating club. All I can say is that I know now what a wealthy landowner must have felt in the 1700s, eating a fine meal on the porch of his colonial mansion overlooking his kingdom. The crazy thing is, Princeton students eat like this everyday. Life does not suck if you go to Princeton.
Go to Princeton and this is how you will eat everyday. though we had meat loaf and fried chicken, we were told that they had king crab legs a few nights earlier...
After dinner we said our goodbyes and headed back to NYC. We met up with Dustin Nguyen and his wife, Angela. They were both in town because Angela was receiving an award from the Christopher Reeve Foundation. The night was certainly nutty...too many people drinking too many of them lychee martinis. Good times. We shared a few laughs, had some Vietnamese food, and, to cap off the evening, watched Dustin & Anglea drift her chair on the NYC sidewalks. -Roger
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