Eliver's Bday and I have food in my mouth

Friday was Elivers birthday! We cleaned up around the pad and eliver cooked up a storm. Had a good turnout. It was Sherry, Sammy, and XJ, Elivers sf4 crew, Kelly from the miss taiwan pageant and a few of my ucla friends dropped by. I like having house parties – fun and kick back at the same time. First time all of us roomies got together for drinks and cake in a long time.

Sat and Sunday I just did some cleaning and set up my printer. The cleaning is not to be overlooked. This was much needed. This was something I’ve been meaning to do for over 6 months so this was a big deal for me. I reorganized my garage, vacuumed, and filed a TON of papers and mail and all this into my filing cabinets. I wushu’d at the park and then got some generic tea and a snakebite at yardhouse.

Monday wrote up a traffic contestation, had 2 meetings and then wushu at SCWA. I did full forms followed by a business meeting after practice. Got some good web work done and set plans to move forward.

Tuesday continued managing a couple design projects and bought some more domains. Sent out teas to Sylvia’s Cafe in Oregon. She will start featuring my teas in her cafe in Oct/Nov. so we will see how that goes.

Wed. set up 2 websites, developed a brilliant idea on online promotion (probably not a new idea, but its just that a light bulb turned on), added more products to wushukicks, and flew up north to begin my nor cal wushu training. I am in San Jose now.

Sort of a boring updates in my opinion. Im just jotting down notes to hold myself accountable and make sure that I am progressing. Since I have no job and no steady income now, its crucial that I make steps to move forward in acting and business or else I would have quit for nothing. Now with about a month left before World Games, I need to switch gears and start getting hardcore with training.

Wushu
Yesterday I had a happy hour at work so I got home a little late and I decided to just go for a little run. I decided to run to this park Alex told me about. Well, I found 2 different parks (none of which Alex was talking about), got lost, and ended up running almost 5 miles until I finally got home. It’s cool though. This way I made myself run more than I was planning on.

Clothing
Got samples for this special imprinting back. Chose the style, but deciding on the threading color now.

Tea
Got pricing quotes back. Need to submit an illustrator vector image before Monday morning. Still waiting on label proof. Getting irritated because I should have received this 1-2 weeks ago.

Film
Finished writing a nuts and bolts version of my plot outline.

Misc
Went out to Pasadena with Hue. Bumped into a friend from my business fraternity and the night turned out to be a blast.

To Do
Photoshoot for Harold
Write up letter to judge
Label color changes
Update Demo Reel
Print out headshot/resume
Change car insurance
Email illustrator format logo
Email laptop info to warranty group

Well, it was back to another mundane monday at the bank. My coworker from kpmg (current contractor at the bank) just came back to work so we should be starting some IT application control testing. I’m happy that she’s back because it was starting to get lonely with me as the only IT SOX Analyst. She also brought back some delicious truffles from her trip to NY.. but thats another story.

Real Estate
Got home from work and showed my room for rent to 2 other people. Both were interested so now I am just deciding on who might be the most responsible roommate. Also waiting to hear back from a few others that came by. Tomorrow one or two people should be calling me and coming by to discuss the deposit, so if that gets taken care of it will be a relief to have found a roommate before team trials. That way, I have one less thing to worry about.

Also studied half of this ethics book which I need to read / take a test on for some real estate education credits.

Wushu
Went to 99 martial arts for a light practice today. I want to let my body recover so I just did a light jog, stretching, basic kicks, jumps, a few short sections (longfist, straightsword, taichi, and taichi sword), and light conditioning. I know my body is in prime competition shape, but today I was feeling lethargic/ in a rest mood so I didnt push it because thats when u end up getting hurt.. and getting hurt 5 days before competition is very stupid.

Clothing
Set up meeting with pattern maker tomorrow.

Tea
Went over revisions needed for the labels. Need to work on that, but its already 12:38AM. Also made some preliminary shops that make hand made chocolate because I thought it might go nicely with my tea. I will probably hold off on this, but thought I would inquire about it.

To Do
Finish that real estate ethics test
Revise tea label
Have lease agreement signed
Get new business cards

Random – Met another person on the bus that recognized me from deadliest warrior.. she also happened to be ranked 3rd nationally for womens collegiate wrestling so that was cool.

This status update is more for myself to organize my thoughts, but also for anyone else who cares to see what I’ve been up to.

1) US Wushu Team Trials is coming up in less than 3 weeks. I registered on June 1st and paid my USAWKF (kung fu federation) dues. 2 years comes around fast.
- I started taking some Sport Multivitamins because I think I work out too much and eat too little / dont get enough nutrition. Even though the past 2 days I’ve been sleeping less, I do feel slightly better because I’ve been eating healthier. I do plan on sleeping more than 3 hours tonight though.
- I’m also flying up north again for my final training session up there before team trials. Nor cal is MUCH more relaxing than hectic LA. =)

2) Enrolled and working part time under Coldwell Banker to learn more about properties. Met a good mentor who will teach me and hopefully provide me the experience I need to put my real estate license to good use.

3) Web based projects under way! After almost 9 months of conceptualizing and calling and researching I finally found a suitable avenue to get one of my products created. Yes, I’m being a little vague, but I gotta keep it a surprise until it’s done. Also I set up the outline of the site. Now I just have to tweak the CSS, adjust the layout, and add content.
- On another note, for my martial arts related project, the designer is supposed to finish our prototype this week. I can’t wait to get something in my hands and feel my concept in my hands.
- For my third project where I am helping on biz dev I finally found a new web developer for our site. This site is much more complicated and requires complete back end customization and I dont have the time/know-how for that so we gotta bring in a pro. I am having lunch with him tomorrow.
- For the first time I can taste progress because I will soon have something tangible. I know that all the other work involved such as meetings, research, sourcing, conceptualizing, etc are all important but I just want to see the finished product damnit! And after that I will be eager to achieve proof of concept. Those are my short term milestones.

4) On reflections – My good friend’s mom and a classmate from UCLA recently passed away. From this I am reminded of 2 things. Though death is tragic and must be very painful for those closest to them, life still goes on and the world does not stop its hustling and bustling. The second thing is that life. is. short. You could be 23 and figuring out what you want to do with your life and what careers you should take and then the next day you could be gone from this earth. It truly is a reminder to enjoy life and do what you love.
-I think I’ll plan on living my life as if every YEAR was my last. If I were to say every “DAY” then I am sure I would be broke and dead before the end of the year.