I know you’re all guilty of it.  You’ve just settled into your seat for a flight to *insert city here* and you’re flipping through the magazines found in the seat pouch or putting that blanket over yourself to snooze out.  The flight attendants stand in front of you and go over the boring safety procedures in case of a crash or other emergency.  You totally zone them out.  Yep, i see it all the time, and i’m probably the #1 culprit of doing it.

As far as I can fathom, what is the use of listening to all this garbage that they are saying?  I mean if we crash, are we REALLY going to live?  Probably not.  We’re all headed for the big house upstairs.

I mean c’mon now!  How dumb are those cards?  What it REALLY should show is the airplane on fire or in pieces and all these dead bodies scattered about.  hahahah.

ANYWAY, i’m on the freeway today and i hear on the radio that a plane has crashed in New York.  My first reaction “wow, i wonder how big the airplane was and how many people died”.  Then i get back to the office and decide to read about it on cnn.com and i find out that EVERYBODY lived.  Seriously….how MIRACULOUS is that?  Like FO REAL.  And then i see the picture.  DOUBLE WOW.  Everybody is standing on the wing!  I mean it’s just like the “emergency card” said.  Emergency doors pop open, people slide out, people go onto life rafts or the wing.  AMAZING.

In today’s current situation (i.e. a failed presidency, a failed stock market, a failed economy, a failing health care system) it sure is refreshing to see something that worked out perfectly for a change!  Like this stuff is straight out of a movie!  Engines fail and the brave captain makes a picture perfect glide onto the mighty Hudson River.  I don’t know who could have written a better script.  I’m surprised the captain didn’t emerge from the cockpit wearing aviator sunglasses with cigar cockily placed in mouth (a la Will Smith in Independence Day).  Here’s to you Captain Sullenberger.  You are a stud’s STUD.

So if y’all didn’t know, GO Pro has had an office in Little Tokyo for the past year now.  You’re probably thinking “WOW..GO Pro has an office? It must be some huge pimpin place with a hot receptionist”.  Sadly this is far from reality.  Reality is that we are in an older building right by Pinkberry and our office is one fairly large sized room with NO WINDOWS.  The reason we have no windows (besides being ghetto) is because we can work at ALL HOURS like monkeys and have no idea what time it is.  For instance, today is a BEAUTIFUL day outside but i would have no idea on that cuz i’m sitting here in this blank cube.  And our “hot receptionist” is Scottie….so yah..definitely FAR from hot.

ANYWAY, one of the worst things about the office (don’t worry i will get to the good things on another post) is the BATHROOM.  Man this place is a SHATHOLE!   First of all there is no ventilation in there so it always smells like hot poo.  It also runs out of paper towels frequently (which i never realize until after i’ve washed my hands).  I can see the horror creep across my face as i look in the mirror when i first realize that there are no paper towels cuz that means *gasp*….i have to TOUCH the door handle.  Ahhhhhhhhh!

And the worst thing about this bathroom is the OLD MAN who always takes a crap there.  Notice how i didn’t say “old gentleman” and the reason for that my friends is because “gentlemen” don’t take craps with the stall door OPEN.  Yup…the old guy has the AUDACITY to take a shiet there for everybody to see.  Today for instance….i had just picked up my lunch from downstairs and went into the bathroom to wash my hands and DOOHHH there he is in all his glory.  The first time this happened to me last year i almost threw up in my mouth.  I was absolutely HORRIFIED.  I mean geez, WHO DOES THAT?  Seriously.  I wonder what is going on in that guy’s head.  Does he hate his life so much that he REALLY doesn’t give a crap anymore?  We always make fun of him in the office.  “oh man the naked dude is taking a crap again!”  hahaha.  So today i’m quickly washing my hands and trying to ignore him and he flushes the toilet and walks beside me with his pants halfway down and his underwear showing.  I wanted to turn around and squeal at him “ewwwwwww” but i held it in like a man.  Instead i write about him.  hahahaha.  Here’s to you “i take craps in public restrooms with the door open guy”.

Ok let me first start off by saying that i HATE SUC.  Why does it seem like every person from USC is a pompous prick?  Sure your football team is great but y’all had to cheat to get there.  hahaha.  Reggie Bush?  OJ Payo?  C’mon now….the hammer will fall on your athletic program one of these days and I will be gleeful in heart.  =)

ANYWAY, despite my hatred for USC, I must give props out to ROCKY SETO who was named the USC Football Defensive Coordinator last week.  Another step for Asian Americans and he’s even cooler in my book cuz he’s Japanese American.  hahaha.  In all seriousness, being named the DC at one of the top football schools in the country is a great achievement for him.  I’m really impressed!  Hopefully there is a head coaching job in store for this guy and I hope it comes sooner rather than later.  Asian Americans coming up mang!  You have the guru Norm Chow as the Offensive Coordinator of our beloved Bruins matching wits with Seto as the Defensive Coordinator of the Trojies.  Gotta love it.  Congrats Mr. Seto!

Been meaning to write up something on this.  The Harvard basketball team actually beat a RANKED team by defeating No.17 ranked Boston College 82-70 last week.  Boston College had just beaten previous #1 North Carolina the week before.  Soooo…according to my crude calculations, the Harvard basketball team is better than the vaunted North Carolina Tarheels.  hahaha.  What makes this story have greater significance is that Harvard is led by Asian American basketball star Jeremy Lin!  I first read about this dude early last year and how he was this stud high school baller and CIF Player of the Year up in the Bay.  Lin dropped 27 points, 8 dimes, and SIX steals on BC.  Wow! Dude was all up on Sports Center, USA Today, and every major news outlet.  Congrats to him and the rest of the Harvard team!

Asian Americans need more “Jeremy Lin’s” to look up to.  When i was growing up there were no Asian American basketball players to look up to and aspire to be.  Even though I made the cut for the school basketball teams in junior high and high school in a majority white neighborhood, I always had that uncertainty because I was Asian American.  Nobody to look up to….nobody to look at and say, “hey…that Asian dude starts on a DIVISION 1 basketball team and is the BEST player on it”.  Check out this pretty interesting article on AA basketball players:  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/15/SPD213J9RD.DTL

Anyway props to you Mr. Lin.  Good stuff!