Greetings from Toronto, Canada.  Yes, I am on the move as I am out here to see family for a week.  But Xanga never stops right?  Well you guys are in for a treat.

THINK MY BROTHER IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN ACT?

Ha Ha.  Well then you are sadly mistaken.  Just a few years ago, when Better Luck Tommorow
was hitting the theaters, I was spreading the word around for my
friends to watch it.  Here's what transpired with my friend, Laurel.

Me: "Yeah, so go watch BLT, my brother's playing a big role in it."
Laurel: "Have YOU ever thought about acting?"
Me: "Well I won't discount it ."
Laurel: "Good to know."

2 days later....

Laurel: "Hey my friend is doing  a short film and wants to know if you want to star in it."
Me: "Ummm...does he know I have NO minimal acting experience?"
Laurel: "Yeah."
Me: "And he wants to waste film on me?  Ok."

So I did this film called "Le Pigeon".  It's about 3 minutes long.  It actually won some short film festival award.  Here's the link.  Tell me what you all think!

http://www.kblzproductions.com/lepigeon.html

1 YEAR OF XANGA.  Who knew?    21,450 times my page has been reviewed?  Damn.  It started because my brother and cousin had one and thought I would try it as well.  It's been fun.  The year has been full of :

                  "Ooo I got a good story to tell Xanga!"

And...
                  "Funny thing happened to me today..."
And...
                  "Wait till they see these pics!"

TO...
               

                  "I hate writing on this thing!"
And...
                  "I can't keep up.  Got too much work to do."
And...
                  "Arghh!  I wrote this really long post and it didn't go through!"

* after a year of these emotions of Pure Joy...
   and Utter Disgust...

I'm still posting on a Saturday night..

                                       -  Thanks for reading!

Ok.  So I'm back but not for long.  I've been busy.  The summer has been good to me.  .  At one point, I think I drank for 7 days in a row.  Whew.  Then 4 days after that.   Don't worry.  Just social drinking.  So one of those nights, I got into another ALTERCATION that I can write about on Xanga.  (see Oct. 10th post)  This was during my friend, Sandy's bellydancing performance.  Before we get to that, can I tell you for a GUY, these bellydancing shows are a MUST SEE.  (If you know what I mean!)

                

                             

                           
My friend is the one in the back left.  Anyway, it is quite a show.  They have storylines and evrything!  This one was about some King who wanted to marry his first daughter off to some dude but she didn't want to and ran off with another woman!  This is like straight out of the Lifetime network starring Joanna Kearns and Stacey Gold!  Anyway, here's a pics of the dude that married the King's second daughter off.
                  
Crazy right?  I'd be scared to get married too!  If you look closer in the 2nd pic, dude's smoking from a Hooka. Straight pimp.  So at one point, the bellydancers came off stage and started to dance with the audience members...So I did what any good patron would do....  I obliged!  (Sorry..No flash.  more about that later)
                 
So here's the altercation.  I'm snapping pictures without the flash and some bi-atch grabs the camera from me and screams
 "YOU'RE NOT GETTING THIS TILL AFTER THE SHOW!"
and she just storms off.  .  So I'm pretty confused at first and my friends told me to go get my camera back.  Fine.  Conflict.  My speciality.  For those who know me, I'm being sarcastic.

So I follow her out the door and she's screaming to this man behind the counter:
"CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?  DON'T GIVE HIM HIS CAMERA UNTIL AFTER THE SHOW!"
Me: "Excuse me?  Why did you take my camera away?"
Bi-atch: "BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE PICTURES!  ROAR!
(I added the Roar for extra umph!)
Me: "Oh, I'm soo sorry.  I thought you said no flash photography."
Bi-atch: "NO.  NO PHOTOGAPHY AT ALL!!!"
Me: "I guess I didn't hear that part.  My mistake (I really meant it too!  I only heard no flash)"
Bi-atch: "NOPE!  WE SAID NO PHOTOGRAPHY!"
Me: "Okay.  well I apologize.  I just wanted to let you know that there was a right and wrong way of handling this.  You just don't snatch someone's camera from them."
Bi-atch: "BUT THERE ARE NO CAMERAS ALLOWED!"
Me: "Ok.  But I just told you that I did not hear that.  It was a mistake.  If you just asked me nicely, I would've put it away."
Bi-atch: "NO.  NO CAMERAS!"
Me: "Why are you so angry about this?  We're adults here.   Once again, there is a right way and a wrong way of handling this matter."
Bi-atch: "AND THAT WAS THE RIGHT WAY!"

Jeez.  Well that put me in my place, so I walked away without the camera.  There's no sense having an "adult conversation" with someone who refuses to budge and tone down their voice you know?  Guess its just the counselor in me.  What I reall wanted to say was..
Me: "LISTEN YOU PIECE OF SH*T JUST BECAUSE YOU LIVE A MISERABLE LIFE AND AREN'T GETTING LAID, DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE TO SPREAD YOUR UGLINESS TO EVERYONE!"

Tolerance Young Jedi.  Tolerance.  .

* Afterwards, my friends ripped the man behind the counter a new a-hole saying that she was unprofessional and such.  They got my back.  Good times.  Good times.

                         

                       GONE CAMPING...

So I'm on the train today rushing and I run into this chick, Shira, I used to work with.  Here's how the dialogue went:

Shira: "Hey!!!  WHAT'S UP ALEX?"
Me (Felix): " Heyy..what's up?"
Shira: "Not much, meet my boyrfriend, John.  John...Alex"
(at this point, I really didn't care that she got my name wrong I was getting off in 2 stops anyway and didn't really care that much to correct her)
Shira: "Alex was this really good rock climber I was telling you about..."

2 Stops later.

Me: "Great well I'm sure I'll see you again..."
Shira: "Wait lemme get your number."
Me: "Ummm...okay" .  (Great, now she put me down as Alex)
Shira: "Great.  I'll call you."
Me: "Grrrreeat.  "

Ever happen to you?  I'm sure you have corrected people...but noooo not me.  Now I have to answer the phone to "Alex" when she calls.  The big thing is to avoid the people we know in common because then she really would look foolish...

Sheesh...Guess I shoulda corrected her in the beginning.  She was just so happy to see
me and acted like we were the best of buds. (which I don't think we were )
Maybe I'll just ignore her for the rest of my life....Yeah...That's the ticket.

Peace out,

Alex Shen

*Bahamas post under construction.

Well...its official...

MY ANTS ARE DEAD

See any live ones?  Yea.  Me neither.  I give up. Sheesh...

- In other news, watch my bro this Saturday at 9 on the Sci-Fi Channel.  Its his Sabretooth movie.  Unfortunately I can't watch it since I'll be in the Bahamas (Woo hoo! )...oh wait...Hurricane Dennis...(Wah!).  So someone record it for me (Hint: Mom) Thanks...I'll be back soon...

P.S.: On an amusing note:  I was cooking some corn the other day and it was taking forever to boil.  What the hell happened?
 ...(Hurry up will ya?)
Can you guess from the following pictures what happened? 


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Once again...I'm a mess.