Travel Bucket List 2012: Booking a role on Hawaii Five-O (Part II)

Filed under CHALLENGES, Hawaii by on February 17, 2012 at 1:54 pm {47 comments}
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My casting profile and the script for my episode, Kupale

 

…Hawaii Five-O (Part I)

Monday: The big Five-0 audition.

At Hawaii Five-0 studios in downtown Honolulu, I play my lines to the casting director in a bare room. It’s one scene. I’m an assistant to two bosses (a dead one and a murder suspect) and I’m being questioned by the Five-O team. The casting director has me perform it several times, adding different direction.

Now I have two thoughts burdening my mind:

- Will I get the Hawaii Five-O part?
- What’s my decision about the Korea job?

My favorite two-letter phrase silences all tensions and neurotic chattering.

… Fuck it.

 

Tuesday: The result

My agent messages me. She is god! Good news, the director cast me. Now I need to wait and see if I clear network approval. Network could still say No.

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Travel Bucket List 2012: Booking a role on Hawaii Five-O (Part I)

Filed under CHALLENGES, Hawaii by on February 15, 2012 at 3:00 am {20 comments}
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Watch me on Hawaii Five-O! Air date is Monday, February 20th (episode is ‘Kupale’).

Okay, some of you asked to see the competition…

Still wondering what some of those alternate plans for 2012 were, twerking with that university job in Korea? Here’s my hinted confession to one of those alternate things…

Travelers all make “bucket lists”, but we don’t always know if we’ll accomplish the things on our list. They’re goals and some of them may seem like shooting for the moon.  To see a ping pong sex show in Thailand, stay at an ashram in India, hike Macchu Picchu, see Cappadocia, go diving in Bora Bora,… For me it’s gone as far as moving to Korea,  embracing solo travel or even traveling continuously for an extended time.

Well last year, somewhere traveling between India to Korea, nailing a role to act on the TV show, Hawaii Five-O fell into my travel bucket list.

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Tribase’s ‘My 7 Links’ Project

Filed under GRRRL in the News, Inspiration by on September 1, 2011 at 12:48 pm {7 comments}

As a travel blogger, I have a behemoth heap of posts in my archival bank. Sadly however, a blog post only has a firefly’s lifespan. Once it’s had its run, it folds into the blog tomb, awaiting a Google search to resuscitate it.  A lot of hours (days even!) of laborious writing, photo uploading and video editing for a very short parade.

When Megan of On my way RTW tagged me on Tripbase‘s My 7 Links project, I was both, honored to be counted in as a member of the travel blogging community and thrilled to share some of my favorite pieces. So if you missed some of these posts the first time around, here’s your second chance! From a restaurant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia with the endearing madness of honking motodops and tuk-tuks as inspirational backdrop, I write for you …

My 7 links:

My Most Beautiful Post

Jeju’s Olle Trails: Reading its secret Love Letters

Everyone should experience the magic of awakening to the eternal spring of a love letter and Jeju Island’s Olle trails (inspired by Spain’s Pilgrim Trails) conveys just that. I’m not sure if this is my “Most Beautiful” post but the experience was certainly (more…)

2011 Shoutouts: GRRRL’s mom, my solo travel fears and the mystery I’ll be!

Filed under GRRRL in the News, • EXPAT LIFE by on January 17, 2011 at 12:00 pm {one comment}

Annyeong 2011! Time is flying and it’s taking a jet.

Writing Home for the Holidays: GRRRL TRAVELER’s blogging mom

It was a winter white holiday for us in Korea and this year,I didn’t have time to write home about it. No problem, my mother, the real family blogger, did it for me!

With my mother in town for two weeks, we climbed the ups of sightseeing Korea through Jeju Island, making our own K-drama tour, desk-warming together at my school, seeing snow fall (*for her it was the very first time),… and she bore the downs of catching a cold during a wicked winter, as well as fears of first time solo travel at age 67!  In GRRR! fashion, she survived.

I’m excited to have a crap-load of fun “first time impressions” to share with you, from her Korean vacation, taken from her eyes and words.

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Solo Travel~ can I whimper?… Writing the vacation that’s still a mystery to me.

Winter English camp is over and I head to Thailand and Laos this weekend for my winter vacation! Two weeks.

Oh yay.

I haven’t been doing my traveler jiggy dance nor have I researched much on this. My life will be shifting shortly with the end of (more…)

December GRRR!: Published Writings and Top 100s

Filed under GRRRL in the News, • EXPAT LIFE by on December 12, 2010 at 2:36 am {5 comments}

December Shoutouts to Published Writing and Top 100′s

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November GRRR!: Chill Travel Reads & an EPIK Vacation?

Filed under GRRRL in the News, Teaching English by on November 29, 2010 at 8:39 am {no comments}

November almost gone and it’s a crazy time of month with news of winter camps and vacations. I’ve been a busy duck this past month; often more busy than I seem. Between writing deadlines, job searches, vacation planning, making friends, eating vegan turkeys and blogging for two sites,… the biggest question I try not to ask myself is- What will I do if my plans fall short? (and I don’t get a university job by visa extension deadline in January?)

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Oct GRRR!: How Scary is The Korea Times & Contract Renewals?

Filed under GRRRL in the News by on October 25, 2010 at 10:53 pm {6 comments}

Boo! Halloween is just about here and October has been a roller coaster of surprises and near scares… The leaves are turning a brilliant yellow, the wind carries a light nip and where are all these damn mosquitoes coming from now? … Exciting and scary updates in this shout out..

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September GRRR!: Back from Jeju and Expacked… again!

Filed under GRRRL in the News by on September 28, 2010 at 11:22 pm {6 comments}

Anyeong! I’m back from my Chuseok holiday on Jeju Islands with lots to blogshare with you. I feel like my life was literally renewed! …That was until, Monday morning rolled around and I had to drag my sorry ass out of my Daegu bed for work. Thank the Korean God for my little Korean students– their bright and smiling faces gave me the second wind my Monday morning took away. I really love teaching them. The scarier realization?

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