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Last Minute Wedding

Monday, Aug 4, 2008 12:46AM / Standard Entry / Members only

Yesterday morning, my phone was blowing up around 10:30am. I had been up working until 8am, so totally wrecked, I wanted to ignore it.

But it was Angie.

My insanely fun, loud and talented friend Angie. I hadn't seen her in a year since we played our last show together in Cali, but overall, nobody on the East Coast had seen her in more than 2 years. She was traveling the world playing with Black Eyed Peas' Will.I.Am, Pussy Cat Doll's Nicole Sherzinger, and sometimes (lol) K-Fed.

Angie was distraught & frantic. The whole reason she was in Boston this past weekend was to catch Melinda's wedding, one of her best friends from high school. Last minute drama left her with no place to stay, no ride, and no date.

Enter Vu.

And two of these. (Ouch.)

It's an early August weekend, so just about every car in Boston has already been rented out. I luck the hell out somehow, and one Zipcar a block away from me became available by 2pm. In my hazy daze, I jet through getting a haircut, 29725 errands, and suiting up to leave for the wedding just in time.

My trusty Verizon GPS-enabled phone got us to podunk Ipswich, MA trouble-free. The wedding was literally in some kind of CASTLE. A national landmark of some kind. Damn, son.

Has anybody ever watched 'Real World: Austin' before? Apparently, Angie's friend Melinda and her hubby-to-be Danny were on it. They met on the show, and even got engaged while on the show. I don't watch T.V. much, so I had no idea who they were.

But wow, I have to say that I've never been to a wedding where I've seen so many beautiful people. Bridesmaids and family from Milwaukee. And I swear, I saw a girl who was just about the closest thing to Carmen Electra ever. Angie and I were in awe of the sheer fineness surrounding us. Equally, the two of us got curious stares as the only Black and Asian at the wedding, complete with mohawks, spikey hair and rock-star rings.

In between the giddiness of it all, I was so taken by how loving and beautiful of a union it all was. Not just Danny & Melinda themselves, but how loving the two families were to each other, proud to become one.

It made me think about my someday.

I wonder if I'm going to marry someone in my little world of entertainment? Or maybe I'll meet a girl from some little town no one's ever heard of? Big wedding? Small wedding?

Yes, I'm a dude, and dudes aren't normally thinking of those kind of details. But when you come from an Asian family with 900 aunts, uncles, & cousins, it's hard for a wedding to not be huge. And Asian families (at least mine) probably wouldn't exhibit the kind of sweet, warm American love and kinship I saw at this wedding. Maybe I just want my wedding to be my closest of friends, just a fraction of family.

Ah, but that's where the drama begins. Haha, the who and who-not's...

By having a prohibitively-expensive wedding in an orbiting space shuttle, I think we have a solution.

[Disclaimer: This entry had no real point, climax, nor claim to any entertaining value.]

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TUESDAY TUESDAY in OC OC, GO GO GO

Monday, Jul 28, 2008 12:45PM / Standard Entry / Members only

HEY LOVELY PEOPLE!
Vu here.

My amazingly talented & dear friend Kristine Sa has been working non-stop crazy hours to put together a show that's coming up like, TOMORROW.
Pardon my last-minute nature, I want to put the word out there and ask y'all to help spread the word & come out to this show on TUESDAY, to support her and all the great artists on this bill.
Details below!!

Dear friends & supporters,

Next TUESDAY JULY 29th, please come to support and help make this concert happen...

CLUB BLEU
14160 Beach Blvd
Westminster, CA 92683

Doors will open at 8:00pm. Admission is $10 at the door and it is an 18+ event. Since this annoucement is so last minute, I am personally reaching out to my friends here in myspace. Please help me spread the word about our show and fill this house up. I know it's absolutely crazy how last minute this is and that's why I would soo appreciate your help.

We've got a very hot venue, there will be alchohol guaranteed to be served (to legal aged drinkers) and a hot line-up of performances from:
* THE SHINOBIES
* VY, feat. KNOWA LAZARUS
* THOMAS' APARTMENT
* myself, KRISTINE SA
And I've just added bonus performance from the very
lovely... KAILA YU with her band NYLON PINK!!!

This is a link to our new flyer for us all to use. Please post it all around. And thank you so much everyone for helping me out on this gig. I thank you all individually and personally from the bottom of my exhausted heart.

http://photos-d. ak. facebook. com/photos-ak-snc1/v275/81/111/505422718/n505422718_571299_5839. jpg

With deep love,
Kris
xoxo

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Ouch.

Thursday, Jul 24, 2008 9:12AM / Standard Entry / Members only

All I can hope for is that someday, I don't have a website dedicated to my face and my closest farm animal counterpart.

From photoblog:
"Sarah Jessica Parker Looks Like A Horse" (http://sarahjessicaparkerlookslikeahorse.com)

This site is a work of parody. Any similarity to people or horses living or dead is purely coincidental. © 2008 SJPLLAH Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Now playing: FM - Fetish
via FoxyTunes

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Kollaboration Acoustic in LA!!!

Friday, Jul 18, 2008 4:17AM / Standard Entry / Members only

Just thought I'd help promote this, wish I could be there myself... it makes me really happy to see so many other rising Asian American stars doing it up. Yeahhhhh

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Arnold, Tesla, and other Good Things.

Thursday, Jul 3, 2008 2:53AM / Standard Entry / Members only

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s announced earlier today a deal California had made with Tesla Motors to bring that electric car company’s manufacturing to the Bay Area.

Watch above as he is joined by Treasurer Bill Lockyer and Tesla Motors President Ze’Ev Drori to deliver a few words about the significance of keeping Tesla in California.
It's a 15-minute long video (which I hardly ever have the patience for), but it was both really entertaining and intriguing for me to sit through it.

First of all, it continues to blow my mind that someone whose past career included professional body-building, Conan the Warrior, and the Terminator is my governor. I love listening to him talk. Beneath his goofy Austrian accent, he is very intelligent, warmly genuine and funny.

Second, a little while back, I read an article in WIRED magazine about Tesla Motors. While I am definitively a musician now, I will not deny that I am still, at the core, a huge nerd and lover of technology. Piggy-backing off the hundreds of millions of R&D dollars computer companies have put into making smaller, more efficient batteries for laptops, Tesla brought these innovations into creating a zero-emission lithium ion car battery. An AWESOME car battery. (0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds, minimal noise and zero gas.)

Our governator swiped the manufacturing plant sights of Tesla from New Mexico to California, baby. Considering the amount that I jump around the States, I've never wanted or needed to own a car. But when I move back to Cali someday, a Tesla might be my first set of wheels!

In other good news, I am eating healthier and working out again. Minimize the McDz, I've learned.

Songwriting, playing a lot of guitar and singing with more heart than I have in a long time. Something big's been brewing with me, and in time (hopefully sooner than later), I'll be able to share with everyone.

What's next? Maybe Yoga.
Haha yeah, I know how that sounds.

But someone told me I could really benefit from that "free your mind" shit. I believe 'em.

P.S. The Dark Knight is 2 weeks away.

And THIS is also going to be awesome:

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Vudoo Soul does not look or sound like anything the music industry would traditionally label a "soul man". However, driven by an unwavering desire to break that mold, the MIT-graduate-turned...
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