Blog a day and Saturday and Sundays Update

Going to start journaling what Ive done each day so I have something to look back on and to hold myself accountable and push myself to have something productive to write about.

This Sat. and Sun update.

Errands/General

Gave myself a haircut, went to best buy to find out about fixing a busted external harddrive, changed casualiscool.com’s theme, showed a room to a potential roommate, lunch with a friend, and went to a job interview at a japanese restaurant.

Last week randomly I decided to apply for a job at a yogurt shop. All the other applicants were just out of high school.. and I just got off of work from my banking/finance job. The interview with the yogurt job was cool b/c the owner interviewed me and he happened to be the owner for ONO Hawaiian BBQ and also another chain of restaurants. He also just finished getting the legal paper work done for franchising his successful restaurants. Anyways, after a day of interviews with high school kids, he was shocked and confused to be interviewing me – an actor, entrepreneur, compliance associate, and realtor. He skipped talking about serving yogurt and eventually asked me if I’d be interested in opening his first franchise store. Anyways, very cool guy and he said he would contact me after my competition next week if he had anything suitable for me.

Meanwhile, as I was waiting for my interview I chatted it up with the japanese restaurant next door. I got an interview (which I went to today) as a host. Parking was terrible to find today, aside from that I think it went well. I should be hearing back by thursday.

So what am I trying to do? Why go from banking to yogurt? I just like interacting with people and having something fun and supplemental on non 9-5 hours. I am only looking for 2 days a week and I would probably go 1 night and 1 weekend or something… I cant work on business on my computer or train wushu ALL the time. =P Its funny how a spontaneous trip to the mall led to a yogurt shop interview and then a japanese restaurant interview.

Wushu

Sat. Cleaned up straight sword 4th section, did a ton of 540 outside kicks, 2 full forms, wore new shoes.

Sun. Finalized tai chi nandus, 1 full form, light conditioning, finalized registration and forms for team trials.

US Wushu Team Trials is next Saturday June 20th. I am 100% ready. I am going to train a little lighter to start recovering. For the past 3 months I have trained on average 6 days a week. Now I just need to let my body recover and max out. I am flying up north on Thursday to get ready for the tournament which is going to be held in my hometown of Cupertino. Wo yi ding hui ying.

Real Estate

Mandatory Realtor class, got lock box electronic key set up, checked out a property. I met a guy when I was checking out the property and he has just bought the unit next door. He was a CPA and owned about 12 or more properties.. and this was part time to his finance job. He seemed like a very smart and experienced guy when it comes to investment properties. He told me to keep in touch, so I just emailed him a few hours ago. We will see if anything develops.

PokerBling + Clothing

Had a meeting with David to discuss getting more poker bracelets into other casinos in LA and Vegas. We are also preparing for an upcoming WSOP (world series of poker) event in vegas.. so we will partner up with another company that has a booth there. David also brought over couple boxes of bracelets that just arrived. I’ll have to drop those off at Hollywood Park Casino sometime next week if I can squeeze that in between my training schedule.

I have been designing some fashion articles lately and we revamped our design and made some improvements and adjustments which I will take to my pattern maker tomorrow or tuesday (depending on his availability.) It should be cool. Hoping to get this back by Friday.

Tea

Sat and Sun. I have been going back and forth with my tea source. I sent him a couple different versions of my label design. It’s finished, but it wasnt the right size as his template and he emailed me back today as if it was really complicated to make it fit. I was a little frustrated, but I resized it myself and just re-sent it back… so hopefully this will work. Honestly, I have everything else ready to go except for the sizing of label.. it shouldnt be this complicated. Hopefully this will be ready also by Friday or sometime next next week. Also designed some promotional shirts for a few of my businesses and need to send out the designs to my shirt maker.

Beverage

I’ve been working on a beverage. I got this idea when I started up on my tea project and realized that not only loose leaf teas were popular and tasty, but beverages would also be a quick alternative. I spent fri, sat, and sun designing a mock up of what I’d like the label to look like. From here I’ll send it to a pro to clean up / revise. At least I have a clear idea of what I want and it’s easier to show someone than to vaguely describe it. I’ll be sending this to some buddies who have experience in the field to take a look at.. we’ll have to revise it no doubt.. and then hopefully within a month we will have these labeled and bottled with a custom blend. Even though I am really excited about my other 2 projects.. from a long term perspective I am REALLY excited about this one. Still, this is the newest project and most up in the air at the moment.

TO DO

Contact and draft up new agreement for web developer to join on pixnation

Finish Real Estate ethics course

Look into transparent labels

Work on WushuKicks site upgrade (long term project)