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

Filed under CHALLENGES, Hawaii by Christine Ka'aloa on February 17, 2012 at 1:54 pm {27 comments}

: My casting profile and the script for my episode, Kupale

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-0 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 Christine Ka'aloa on February 15, 2012 at 3:00 am {18 comments}

: 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 , learning to go solo in my travels 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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The dark side of Bangkok & its museum of the macabre

Filed under Bangkok, Off-beat, Weird... Reality! by Christine Ka'aloa on December 13, 2011 at 3:04 pm {16 comments}

Siamese twins babies sharing one set of internal organs.
Photo from: elephantsleg.wordpress.com

What does Bangkok inspire for you?

For me, it’s generally floating markets, monstrously serene Buddhas, assorted hawker food carts of delectable cuisine and throngs of smiling Thai. I don’t exactly think of two-headed babies, the charred corpse of a serial murderer and a display of unusually, large human testicles!

But Bangkok surprised me yet again.

As much as I love Bangkok, I was afraid I might be getting into a traveler’s rut – when a place is no longer shiny and new. My first visit was all about sightseeing: temples, floating markets, the golden palace and elephant rides. My second and third visits, were all about medical tourism and getting amazingly cheap discounts off of dental crowns and travel shots! By my fourth time around, I was scraping the inspiration barrel. I wanted excitement of fall off-the-grid into the local, the seedy, the morbid and well,… creepy.

How far could Bangkok take me?

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My narrow escape from Bangkok’s Ping-pong sex show scams

Filed under Bangkok, Features Slide by Christine Ka'aloa on December 9, 2011 at 11:24 am {35 comments}

patpong-ping-pong-shows

200 baht, 200 baht! I give you deal. Buy one drink and you see all the acts! You not get this kind price from anyone else.

This is what the skinny Thai man quoted, as he whipped out a laminated menu:

1. Pussy shoots ping-pong balls

2. Pussy blows balloons

3. Pussy writes letter

4. Pussy blows out candles

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Visiting your local Indian community theater

Filed under India, Kerala / Karnataka by Christine Ka'aloa on May 7, 2011 at 6:22 am {7 comments}

I’d spent the day circling the off-beat town of Gokarna, like a worn path of a merry-go-round. Boredom was closing in, threatening to seal me in like a concrete tomb. What to do when the town’s temples are closed to foreigners and you’re not into beaches?

Enter Gokarna’s local community theater.

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Written by Christine Ka'aloa Glam Around the World

Getting my hair done at the Korean beauty salon

Koreans are the best dressed and groomed people in the world. Without a doubt.

A high maintenance looks-oriented society, you’ll find the men, women, teens and toddlers are all stylish, made up, manicured… not a hair out of place. Here, plastic surgery is as common as going to the dentist. Clothes shopping is a popular pasttime for men and women, alike. Guys are tailored to look like like K-pop stars, as women wear short skirts and balance on stilted toothpicks. Toddlers get perms and manicures and children are dressed as if they came out of fashion pages.

January 21, 2011 33

Written by Christine Ka'aloa Jeju Island

Jeju Island’s Loveland Exposes Naughty Fun in Korean Sex

Occasionally, Koreans can surprise you. A couple of month ago, it was a mystery to me as to where all the sexual naughtiness in conservative Korea was hidden. Now, standing before the un-pearly gates of Loveland…

October 28, 2010 7

Written by Christine Ka'aloa Off-beat, Weird... Reality!

5 Daredevil things to try if you’re Solo in Vietnam

You don’t have skydive out of a plane in order to be a daredevil. You don’t have to eat strange bugs or worms to be an adventurist. Sometimes, adventure and danger can fit into the simplest things; and if you’re a solo traveler, occasionally it’s the simplest things that can feel the most dangerous!

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Written by Christine Ka'aloa Fear Factor Foods

Fear Factor Vietnam: Sapa Market, Vietnam

Not far from my hotel, where D Phan Si Road off-shoots onto a smaller street, D Tue Tinh, you’ll find Sapa market. It’s a local market of tobacco, produce and meat and a bit of a spectacle for unsuspecting tourists, as you’ll be able to get a glimpse of the local delicacies that tempt the village palate. For vegans and vegetarians, you may not want to enter the meat section– it can feel pretty hardcore