Current location:	Los Angeles, CA
Current mood:	cheerful

*fingers cracking*
okay.
So, I haven't written in a while, but once I write some of it down, I think you may understand:

Now, three weeks ago was the JACCC event. It went off without a hitch and was, in my opinion, more successful than we'd expected it to be, mostly because nothing went wrong which means that it was very successful. Does that make sense? Anyhow, behind the scenes was a bit hectic with last minute translating and editing of speeches, and meetings. From my point of view, it got a bit hectic in the program when a few speakers sped up their speeches to 5 times what a normal speech would be. This screwed me up, up in the booth because I was trying to read the translated script at a decent pace. After everything was said and done, I actually caught a bug which made me cough a lot.

Now, simultaneously, my mother called me up that week to tell me that 'Dad just got passed the buck to sing in the university alumni karaoke contest and we can't let him sing. Junko we'll fly you back; please sing instead of your dad!" odd huh? I called my mom back the next days to double check and it still was what they wanted. It was the weirdest way of 'saving face' for the family.

So, 10 days after the JACCC is over, I arrived in Chicago for the first time in over a year for a karaoke contest with a nasty cough. My vocal situation wasn't ideal, but what can you do right? I did the best I could do (sang "Gekkou" by Onizuka Chihiro) and spent the evening at the karaoke place with a bunch of 50+ old people.

Now this past weekend, I took my vacation in NYC. It was fabulous. My best friend in Boston asked me 'why the hell would you want to go to NYC for a vacation?' "Because it's cold" I replied. LA-la land weather can get boring. But NYC greeted me with three days of 30F weather with clear blue skies and strong sunny rays of light. Yes, it was one of those vibrant days. I spent NYC without an agenda and just seemingly floated around... I saw a total of 4 friends on the first day and did things as I felt like it. I went to the MET, went to Chinatown. Above all, it was also the food, especially since it was before V-day, the varieties of chocolate galore! And there's nothing like drinking thick hot chocolate after coming in from the cold outdoors. My favorite food experience was definitely The City Bakery on 18th Street. Their fresh pretzel croissant was great and their SHOT of hot chocolate will be a first time experience for all especially for those of you who are chocoholics! I think I'll be going over to the LA one in the next week or two just to re-live my NYC experience. :P

Things I've been working on:
Well, do to circumstances "The Agency" that I was cast for is now canceled, but the director/producer has moved onto a different project and wants me to be involved, so we'll see how that goes. TBA

I started taking two classes: one is an audition 'toolbox' class with Heidi Helen Davis through East West Players on mondays. And on Wednesdays, I am taking improv with Cold Tofu Improv .

Musically speaking, I am not in charge of booking singer songwriters for Komuzika's open mics held every second Sat. of the month.

Also, Kevin So will be back in LA for a week in March, so I've been busy helping out in PR and trying to book him another gig during his visit.

Oh yes, I can't forget to add that I'm helping for Lodestone Theatre Company's Oscar fundraiser party at the end of this month too.

hmm... I see a lot of 'help' and not much mention of 'money' or 'pay.' *sigh* I'll get there...

Again, thanks for listening folks!