Grassroots Day 5 - Politics and a Hip Hop Partay!

This morning I jumped on a train with Justin to go from Washington D.C. to NYC.  Prior to our departure, Justin and I had one of the best, home-made-tasting hamburgers in the world...and it was in the food court of the D.C. train station!  Go figure.

Upon arriving in NYC, we had barely enough time to drop off our stuff at Hells Kitchen when we had to head out to Queens to attend the Organization of Chinese Americans awards banquet.  When we popped out of the subway in Queens, I seriously had no idea where we were.  We had to find a Chinese restaurant somewhere in a sea of Chinese restaurants.  It's like trying to find a needle in a needle stack.  Then it started to rain.

Justin and I were totally blown away by the amazing people of OCA.  We met the first Asian woman to pass the bar in NYC, Ellen Young...very cool.  There was also Bill Imada, a business leader in the ad agency that led the charge of taking away all the add sponsorship from a big NY radio station after they did a rather racist skit on the air.  And we got to hang out with Emmy Award winning journalist, Ti Hua Chang.  Thanks OCA for inviting us out!

Only in NYC can you go from a political awards banquet to hanging at a hip hop club all in the same night.  And that's exactly what Justin and I did.  We jumped a train from Queens back to Manhattan's lower west side.  Peter Chun and BASE NY were helping us promote FTG at their club, Hiro Ballroom.  It was very cool.  The whole club was plastered with FTG posters and they were playing clips of FTG on the jumbotron.  And they even gave us our own private booth.  Strangely enough no one in the club actually sits in any booth...they sit ON TOP of them.  Don't know why they do that, but standing on furniture at a classy joint is certainly something I recommend everyone should try at least once in their lives.  It makes you feel like a bad ass rebel.  Tough and rebellious.  Anyway, it's 4 am right now and we just got in.  I'm going to try something called sleep.  : )  -Roger

Partying at BASE NY & sitting ON TOP of the furniture.