Catalina

It’s been 15 years* since I last posted. So what’s changed? Well now that you’ve made it here, my new world wide home is now misterchou.com. Everything is brand spankin’ new: new blog, new photoblog, new photo gallery all at new easy to find and understand urls. And with these shiny new things come new expectations. Expect nice pretty photos (when I take them) in the photoblog, expect regular bulk photo uploads in the gallery, and expect more regular posts in this blog about my going-ons, cool/uncool things I find, thoughts, opinions, and hopefully conversations about any topics of interest.

So lets kick things off with a long overdue post about the trip I took to Catalina Island years ago.

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after a short stay upon this behemoth…

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we got to the island and stayed in this incredible place

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mom kickin’ it and…

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checking out the view

more pictures here
Summary: Everyone needs to go check this place out. One of the most laid-back and beautiful vacation spots I’ve ever visited.

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*15 years = around a year

snow!

This post is a couple weeks late, but I feel it is necessary being that I’m a silly Californian. It snows here. And it’s wonderful. But it’s cold. But not as cold as Northwestern and especially not as cold as Williams Community College.

Snowball Fight in the Quad
Snowball fight in the Quad

The Quad
Peaceful side of the Quad

Uni Management Club
Locust Walk. The school hung up those snowflake light things.

LOVE Sign
Our LOVE sign

Stay tuned for the following post is going to be redunkulous. (once I finish preparing the photos)

college recap: part VII

This will be the last addition to the college recaps. From here on out, updates will be a little more recent. So last semester was one crazy ride in Management 100. The course centered around a team of ten working on one making one super-fab service project happen before the semester is over. My team, the Kohesive Kohalition, was in charge of throwing a hip hop party (perhaps the coolest project choice) to benefit University City High School (UNI).

The Kohalition looking slick after our client presentations. Counterclockwise from bottom left: Zack, Lisa, Chris, Atthena (our TA), Jeewon, Liz (our client’s community relations person), Amanuel, Sean (our client), Alex, me, Melanie, Lee.

Here’s a little bit about our team.
Zack – “What the Peter Drucker!! Get out of my office!”

Lisa – “I love this team!! i hate myself…”

Chris – Chris is actually insane. Stay away from her. she pinches.

Atthena – Sweetest TA of all.

Jeewon – Pledging + Mgmt = almost died.

Amanuel – Black.

Alex – Randomist kid ever. Maybe because he’s always high.

Melanie – Future beat-boxer of America or Cayman.

Lee – Mask and Wig Krunker

University City High School

Front of UNI.

Uni Management Club

We started a Marketing Club at UNI to help promote the event. Here are them kids. Luckily I wore some Bape that day.

Kohmotion Flyer

Our event flyer. This was my baby.

So throughout the 2-3 month period our team basically went nuts. We had snack-selling fundraisers, tshirt fundraisers, raffle fundraisers, corporate sponsors, food donations, venue sponsorship, flyers, handouts, printed tickets, decorations, 12+ performers, 3 DJs, team shirts, crazy nights, lots of stories, zack yang, and much more. The event went off really well, a lot of people showed up, we raised around $1000, the performances were really well done, and people had a good time. Even the principal at UNI showed up and broke it down (sort of).

Performer List

The back of our handout flyers with a list of all our performers.

Krew Sponsors

The Kohalition posing with our many sponsors. Counterclockwise from bottom left: Big Red, AMan, MC Tag, Yi Yi, El Quest, A Bad, G1, jSUN, Daddy Yanks (not pictured: Z-Dawg)

The Krew Looking Dope

Pimpin our Krew shirts after the event.

So much thanks to the Kohalition for an eventful, crazed, mad, enraged, funnyfull first semester. This sadly is the end of the first semester recap. A semester that was dazzling and much insane.

Photos of winter break in Catalina Island and such to come. Peace out from THE KREW.

college recap: part VI

Here we go. Last two recaps.

During the first few weeks of school, Penn’s 40 million a cappella groups had tryouts. Being a lover of singing and being a big loser, I tried out for 30 million. I managed to get callbacks to all 30 million, including Penn Masala, an all-indian group. (I also made callbacks for Penn Dhamaka, an all-indian male dancing group. Nice.) Finally after a painful two weeks, I received work that I made it into Chord on Blues, Counterparts, Off the Beat, and Pennsylvania-Six 5000. Of course, coming from a billion years of choir and of listening to college acappella, I flipped out about getting into Off the Beat and knew that was it for sure. However, after spending a week with both Penn-Six and Off the Beat, I realized how different things were from what I expected. I found myself enjoying my time at Penn-Six more and that Off the Beat, although dope, was not exactly what I wanted. So PennSix it is.

Last semester, we had our fall show which brought in about 700 people. We also had our 25th anniversary and 70+ alums actually returned for the festivities. It was pretty amazing to see all these people and actually hear them sing the songs that we listen to on old albums and meet the people behind the voices.

We had multiple gigs throughout the semester, and we went on a roadtrip to New York and Boston to sing for some rich Penn alum’s birthday.

PennSix

With the birthday boy. From left to right: guy not in Penn-Six, Lix, Brock (me), Grubbs, Lechter, old man, Stan, Chex/Ward, Cletus, Lingus (on bended knee), Jiggy, Tiger Woods (Nigel).

Please note:

40 million = 12ish

30 million = 7

a billion = 11

700 = 700+

70+ = 70-

Penn-Six = worst group ever

college recap: part V

Sometime last semester, some dungeon members ventured to some random city in New Jersey for the All-American Rejects’ Tornado Tour. Felt like we were the only college students there. Nick met some high school girls. And then internet stalked them the next day. Show was really good. Gym Class Heroes are really good.

The Group partly
some of the beauties who attended. in actuality, nick only attended the ride to and from the tweeter center because he’s just madly in love with his magical elixir.

Gym Class Heroes
gym class heroes – listen to them

The Starting Line
The Starting Line

All-American Rejects
All-American Rejects

Again
amazingly hot

see the rest of the pictures HERE

college recap: part IV

I started working as a photographer for the Daily Pennsylvanian just so I could use them fancy cameras. I’ve only had one assignment so far which involved walking to and from the office (conveniently a billion blocks away) carrying a backpack that contains this:

Camera Backpack
beautifully expensive

Big Camera
just holding this thing is beast

Pretty Lenses
whoop

Second semester started today, but I have not yet finished my college recap as I had hoped. Almost done though with probably a couple more entries left. Current semester schedule is just lovely:

  • Legal Studies 101
  • Math for less stupids
  • Computer Science 121
  • Computer Science 260
  • Business and Public Policy 250 – Managerial Economics
  • Writing Seminar – Performers and Critics

Second semester will hopefully be a semester for redemption. More recap to come…

college recap: part III

Here in the fabulous illadel, there is a week dubbed Restaurant Week when us less-than-wealthy can enjoy some fine dining in the city for a reasonable price. So some members of the dungeon and select members of the Quad got all dressed up and took a trip to

Bra Water
i think it translates to “bra water”

group
how cute

and of course, no night is complete until connie gets to take a picture with some random black guy

Black Guy

see the rest of the pictures HERE

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