Two is Better than One

“Behind every great man there is a great woman.”

I’m sitting in my room, clothes all-a-cluttered and strewn across my bed. I’m rummaging for something. My sister is busy dolling herself up for this audition or that meeting – something that working actresses have to do – when this song comes up through the speakers of her macbook. The guy’s voice is familiar, a whiny, emo-alt-rock tremor my ears are used to hearing.

“Boys Like Girls?” I ask, referring to the pop rock band fond of swishing their long emo bangs as they rock out to their emo guitars.

“Yep,” My sis replies.

“Cool,” I nod in approval.

Then, a lovely female voice appears.  The pitch is high and a little bit airy.

I gasp, “Taylor Swift?”

My sis nods, “yep.”

Very cool.

I ransacked through the personal playlist of favorite songs in my head and found that most of them are duets between a pop-ish boy group’s lead singer and cute lady singer. There’s just something magnified about a song when it is backed by a softer, feminine twang. Here are some of my favorites…

posted by Janice | Comments: 3 | Music

Let’s Do This

The writing's on the wall

Sometimes a girl just needs to wake up to a little motivation.

I think I have officially hit the mark where the “f” has left “funemployment” and wishing the “un” would join the “f” so that I can just have “employment.” I feel like I’m running a race with all the other unemployed, rushing to the finish line where a steady paycheck and health benefits and a long commute is waiting, and that I’m so behind, I might as well just walk. Heck – I might as well just stop for some donuts at the nearby coffee shop except oh wait, I have no money!  Somedays, I can hardly see the finish line. I just see my shoes hitting the pavement but it’s not moving forward.

posted by Janice | Comments: 8 | God, Job, Personal

America’s Next Top Chinese American Model?

I was born tall. Have always been the tallest gal in my class, always stood at the back for pictures, always played the target for people to spot in large crowds, always was able to reach the top shelf for the cookie jar.

My long limbs always led to two natural assumptions from strangers; “you should be a basketball player,” or, “you should be a model.”

Alas, I lack the grace and coordination for either occupation. I have severely injured myself while jogging on concrete, coming down from a ski lift or skipping to a dance and have the scars and crooked ankle to prove it. Nonetheless, it was fun to play supermodel for one day.

The Miss LA Chinatown pageant has come and gone. Poses were struck, drama queens were unleashed and attitudes were strut down the runway. We even ended up in the Chinese newspapers!

We even got interviewed afterwards!

Large thanks goes out to the current court (pictured here with a former court member and CACC member, Karin), John, Ginger, Junko, Miss Tina and many other crew members for their amazing production of this fashion show.

Their dedication to the show was tremendous and I know that if we didn’t have Joyce, Jennifer, Marisa, Janice and Suyun guiding us this entire time, we would have pulled something like Miss Bradshaw here:

[Thanks for the photos, Jane, Marisa and Mom!]

posted by Janice | Comments: 6 | Fashion, Pageant

Take Two

Excuse me but I’m about to get (even more) conceited here.

I’d just like to say that I am in love with my banner picture.

The angle, the colors, the facial expression, the whole package. Unlike many other pictures-professional or casual, posed or candid-that I’ve taken over the years, this shot is one I feel wholly represents me, inside and out.

I only have one person to thank for this picture and that is this Miss here.

posted by Janice | Comments: 3 | Friendlies

Take One

God is really quite funny. His sense of humor could give Conan O’Brien a run for his money (and knock Jay Leno out of the ballpark.) He plans our lives in ways we would have never imagined for ourselves and gifts us with amazing people and things, images and sounds.

Take this man here.

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