Good Mood Jam of the Day

From the first time I heard Far East Movement perform this at the ISA concert, I was like, this is my jam!

Here we go, come with me
There’s a world out there that we should see
Take my hand, close your eyes
With you right here, I’m a rocketeer

~Far East Movement ft. Ryan Tedder

Romantic, inspirational, and hella catchy, I dare you not to rock out to this. Plus, I’m loving how the music video is a love letter to LA.

Speaking of reaching for the stars, help me make top 20 for the Good Mood Blogger position! I’m making leaps and bounds in terms of votes and I only have you to thank for that.  Remember, you can vote with computers and cell phones and laptops and Mozilla Firefox and Safari and Internet Explorer! Vote vote vote, please!

posted by Janice | Comments: 1 | Blog, Inspirations, Los Angeles

Good Mood Quote Of The Day

Today is so gorgeous, you get a 2-for-1 deal. I love both quotes.

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.”

~ Joan Rivers

“We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don’t think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you’re hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.”

~Art Buchwald

Speaking of 2-for-1′s, I just found out there are many many outlets for you to vote! You can vote with your COMPUTER, LAPTOP, CELL PHONE, IPOD, IPAD, MOZILLA, SAFARI (and any other browsers).

Once again, the link is here.

And after you do all that, please go out and have yourself a great day.

“Remember, today only happens TODAY. ”

~Janice Jann

(Can I make that into a quote? No? Keep working on it? Okay…)

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Good Mood Quote of the Day

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

-Good ol’ Dr. Seuss

Thank you all for voting!

posted by Janice | Comments: 2 | Inspirations

Taylor is Swift (with the men)

I kind of gave up on reading celebrity gossip sites religiously awhile ago.

I realized I could do without the meanness and spite found in some of them and the superficiality and celebrity-obsessiveness found in others.  When I read these sites and magazines for a long period of time, I notice I tend to start to envy the rich and the famous and to place them on a pedestal and to evaluate why I am not as cool as them, as rich, as well-dressed, as hot, as happy. I understand, of course, that this is all a faux sense of reality I create just because I enrapture myself in that world.

I still think of myself as pretty caught up with entertainment news though. As someone who wants a career in that industry, it’s pretty important to know your beat. Kinda crucial for the job and all.  I like stuff that is well-written and informative and just a little bit juicy (who doesn’t?). Stuff like Entertainment Weekly.

BUT I JUST HAD TO SHARE MY RECENT ADDICTION TO TAYLOR SWIFT’S LOVE LIFE!!

posted by Janice | Comments: 1 | Los Angeles, Magazine

He’s the (Ip) Man

I’ve been reading Entertainment Weekly since the 9th grade (which is a lot longer time ago than you think, my friend) and when I receive it every Friday, it is the ultimate pick-me-upper.  Cover to cover, I devour every word, lock each image in my brain and hug it to sleep, a huge smile on my face. It’s a magazine that reaffirms my belief in the power of print publications and that nasty, brainless Perez Hilton does not have to be the only way I can get my fix of entertainment news.

Last week was EW’s Annual Powerful Entertainers Issue where they culminate all the cool people in the biz and make them even cooler by deeming them as cool. Yaknowwhatimsayin’?

I perused the issue, more and more saddened by each page I flipped because well, the entire issue was pretty colorless.  We’ve got a couple of Latino exports and there’s the obligatory Oprah and Mr. Smith, but besides Jackie Chan in a side mention, Asian peeps ain’t got much love.

That changed when I got to the next page and lo and behold, a feature of the Brads and Angelinas around the world!

posted by Janice | Comments: 1 | Films, Inspirations, Magazine, Personal

15 Seconds of Fame

My Wells Fargo commercial came out! Yay, I’m excited to be sharing it with you all.  Take a look:

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Spin the Wheel, Win a Smile

I feel like I got transported back to high school again, working in retail at the shopping mall. I mean, I know I like to be young at heart, but this may be taking it a little bit too far.

posted by Janice | Comments: 4 | Uncategorized

Party for Good

The good old terrible days when we would get trashed in our dorm rooms or wake up with a hangover from clubbing the night before is so last year. Gosh, how silly and frivolous we were back then.  Think about all those hours wasted at that crappy lounge with the loud deejay and the creepy dudes.  Think about all the calories consumed with those glasses of Jack and Coke. Yechh.

Now, there is a way. There is another way. There is a better way.

It’s called partying for good.

More and more, partying for good has become a way for young and old people to justify dancing the night away or downing that fourth shot of Patron. It’s for a good cause. And it’s fun! The truth of the matter is, people are more likely going to attend a charity event if it’s fun and more likely going to attend a party if proceeds go to support a cause. There’s nothing wrong with that.

Tonight, there’s an awesome event called The Forum happening in LA.  Started by a group of young’ns frustrated with the lack of venues for up and coming artists and musicians to perform in, The Forum is hoping to give others a place to use their space as their starting point for performances at no charge (in other words FREE/NO STRINGS) to them or any of their guest and other attendees!

I checked out tonight’s lineup and the music is pretty dang good.  

I was so looking forward to hearing these performers live tonight but I am not in the best of health so gonna take it easy.  If you’re not an old lady like me and looking for a place to chill around LA, head on over to the Grand Star Jazz Club around 9:30PM.

Part of the reason why I’m resting up is because I will be modeling for a fashion show event called “Hello Art… Meet Fashion” this Saturday night.  A charity fundraiser that’s aimed to showcase artists and designers’ works, bring funds to children’s cancer and get you feeling a little loose with some wine tastings, I would be going even if I weren’t modeling! (And that’s not because Audrey Magazine is also a sponsor.)

Friends, if you can make it out, I’d love to see your faces Saturday night.  If not, I’m sure we’ll party for good another time.

posted by Janice | Comments: 7 | Fashion, Friendlies, Los Angeles, Personal

This Too Shall Pass

Now that it’s legitimately cold season in California (well, as cold as you can get), I’ve started to slip into my leather boots. In this picture, these kinda look like something swamp murderers might wear but I promise they’re quite stylish.

But they sure weren’t comfortable.

posted by Janice | Comments: 3 | Fashion, God, Inspirations

I’m A Hustler, Baby

When people ask me how I’ve been these days, I always respond that I’ve been hustlin’.  Then, I realized that I’m not even really aware of what this word hustlin’ means.  So I looked it up. Good old Urban Dictionary got my back, yO

Hustlin: Havin the ambition and drive to do everything and anything to make mad money. See hustler… Also a term used for “tryin to obtain sum booty”.

Err… not quite what I’m doing. How about the next definition?

Hustlin: hustlin’s doin whatever you gotta do to get that paper.

Okay, so I think that these days, the term hustling should be expanded. I think if you replace “money” and “paper” in those definitions with “dream,” it would be a more accurate description of what I see my friends and cousins and sister, even my dad, and I going about doing everyday.  Yes, we are still trying to make a living, but doing it the way we want to live. We’re hustling to make our dreams come true. Working hard 24/7 to do it. We don’t have everything mapped out because in this day and age, there is no clear path to get you to where you want to go. And anyway, where do you want to go?  Best to go with the flow. But keep an itinerary in mind. But stop and smell the roses. You catch my drift? (It doesn’t smell like roses, huh?)

I don’t know how everybody else is going about it, but here are snapshots of my hustle:

I spend a lot of time on my computer. I don’t usually look this clean doing it (this was for a photoshoot) but I do have to stare at my macbook a lot.  I wish I didn’t spend as much time as I do on Facebook or G-chat or Twitter or Google Reader. They give me a headache.

posted by Janice | Comments: 11 | Chinatown, Fashion, Friendlies, Job, Los Angeles, Magazine, Pageant, Public Appearances, Uncategorized, Writing