(Picture taken by yours truly at the Monterey Bay Aquarium)Chinese New Year has officially arrived (February 7th). Festivities have been happening for the past week or so, and should last up until the last week in February. I unfortunately have missed out on some activities this past week due to other engagements, but I hope to go into Chinatown and check things out this week.
The year of the rat should hopefully bring some good fortune to me, as this is my zodiac sign.
Just got word from people back home about one of our classmates, Michael Gregory, appearing on American Idol this past week. He went down to Atlanta to audition for the show and ended up seemingly baffling the judges:
For those people who knew/know him, Michael is quite a character. He always has been–I remembered in elementary and middle school that he was rather quiet but would occasionally have his moments of randomness. He became more “out there” in high school and most knew him as an excellent musician at first. My brother used to hang out with Michael a lot and they would film funny videos together.
I have lost touch with Michael, save for the fact we are friends on Facebook. I was surprised to hear about his little stunt on American Idol and figured, like most who know him, that his stunt was that: merely a stunt. His attire and the way he sang Akon’s song was just hilarious–you can tell that the judges were probably wondering “What the heck?”
Anyway, from this little morsel of news, I also thought about the aftermath of this small 15 seconds of fame: I bet Michael is getting a lot of friend requests and some sort of Internet celebrity status just from this short stint on television. I checked out his Facebook profile and it seems that a lot of people from our high school commented and congratulated him–I am betting most people who commented had not really talked with Michael for quite awhile before the American Idol episode aired. It’s just amusing to me to watch this unfold; I’m sure most everyone in our hometown knows about this by now. After all, news spreads fast in a small town.
I don’t usually like talking about politics, but I was just amazed at all the news pouring in about the shortages of ballots and whatnot on Super Tuesday (Note: in case you were wondering, yes, I am backdating this entry because I was away on a small trip/visit for the past few days). I really did not think that so many people would come out to vote on that day, but I guess that shows how much people want someone fresh and new to represent their political party.
I did my duty in voting though–now I only anticipate the end of these primaries to see who will come out as the Presidential nominee in the Democratic party.
Good game last night with the Giants beating out the Patriots. Like I mentioned before, I am not a fan of football really, but I watched the last half hour or so since I noticed the game went past 6:30 PST. What an upset! But life goes on, right?
Anyway, I did avidly watch all the commercials that were playing. I attempted to also log onto the websites in the commercials to see what was up with the sites. GoDaddy’s commercial was dumb, in my opinion. It was weak and just didn’t have an appeal to it. I have heard others say how the SalesGenie commercials were leaning towards stereotypes/racist slurs, and I guess I would have to agree a little bit. I don’t really get the point of SalesGenie.com anyway actually.
The Audi commercial confused me a lot, but probably because it made a movie reference that I was not familiar with. Really nice website though. The commercials that made me laugh and stuck out to me were the Pepsi and Bud commercials. Diet Pepsi Max was funny with all the sleeping/dozing people…well done with that one. The Bud commercials were just clever and memorable for me as a consumer.
Careerbuilder commercials were also funny, although I felt like the first one (the woman and the heart one) was a little gross. The Coke and Etrade commercials were also fun, although the baby in Etrade was creepy.
I guess if I had to choose just one commercial that was well executed, it would be this one:
It was intriguing with the parade blowups seeming to be fighting for the Coke. Well done!
I have heard a lot of good things about this series for awhile now. Throughout college I really did not watch much television at all–it just wasn’t something I thought about amidst studying and spending time with friends. Anyway, people continued to recommend the series to me–my older sister, my friends, etc. Finally I decided “Well I guess the series probably is worth watching….” so I decided I would buy the series.
I didn’t want just each individual season one by one–I wanted to own the complete series all at once. I’m just that way when it comes to watching series of any type–I want it all at once or none at all, because I would end up forgetting about the series if I didn’t get to finish the series in a timely manner.
So my older sister bought the Sex and the City complete collectors’ series for me for my birthday. I have yet to start watching the DVDs since this past week has been kind of hectic for me–but I hope to crack open and watch it all soon. Gotta see what the hype has been all about.