Yay!

i've drunk-dialed before. drunk-emailed before. but never drunk-blogged before. until now that is.

our business plan team, tastination (formerly known as mr. fob) won the school's competition tonight. Going up against four other teams, which included med devices and homeland security software, our measly little idea won. needless to say our team celebrated...and celebrated well (i just got a text from laura that she tossed her cookies). somewhere in the night, annu told me that i had to announce to the world that we won on my blog when i got home. so, ta da.

anyhoo, i'm too retarded and tired to make sense, but thank you all for your support. we'll be having a food tour soon...and with our winnings, including a 6-month lease on an office space, we're soooo open for business. :) yay!

TMT (Too Much Tina) and More

okay, warning. longer entry than normal. i feel like lindy.

this weekend was a blur. i spent most of it with tina II - a concert, few bars, a comedy show (that we never made), a housewarming, a mothers' day, and few more etc's. i basically recall yelling "TMT, TMT!!!" to tina for no particular reason. so what do you do when you don't remember? you turn to your handy camera to remind you of your stupid times.

so, i just looked. i got two pictures for you.

1. the preferred parking situation
due to last weeks' fire at griffith park, the keane concert was moved from the greek to the gibson in universal. tina had won vip tix with comped parking for the event, but unfortunately, with the venue change, it was quite confusing. after tina yelled at a parking booth guy for making us pay and sweet-talked a preferred parking guard, we self-directed ourselves into the preferred parking area because we claimed ourselves v-i-p. once we got out of the truck, we realized that every car around us had these pink slips on their windshields. so, what does tina do? she goes to the car next to us, rips its pink sheet in half and puts it on my truck. voila. tina = an action hero.

then, we start walking towards the venue and then my worrywart consciences kicks in. "tina, what if i get towed?"

so, after a few "dude, you're retarded"s, we decide to f our v-i-p status and move to the common people's parking lot. as we're driving in, our half-ripped, stolen pink slip that is still hanging on our windshield catches the attention of another parking attendant. she furiously waves us over and moves several cones to make way for us to get to yet another preferred parking area! moving at like 0.00000001 mph, i drive towards her with my guilt-ridden face. tina = not so much an action hero. here's the stupid 1/2 ticket.















2. mothers' day moment
i went to gtown for dinner yesterday. what do i spot in the middle of our dinner table? just a pretty pink carnation in a thin vase with some writing on it. as i get closer, i realize it's a shot glass sandy got me during college that i left at my parents' house...here it is. if you can't read what it says: "Caution. sober to horny in four shots." yup. mothers' day dinner centerpiece.

oh, we picked tastination. www.tastination.com. we present this baby in the finals of our biz plan competition next week. fun times.

Mr. Word Smith

the fob renaming project is way way harder than i ever imagined. we're currently at about 40 back-and-forth emails with potential names. the biggest hurdle is that the urls for the names we like are not available...such a bummer. anyhoo, currently, we're messing with names like:

- ethnicfoodie.com
- tastination.com or tastynations.com
- mr. (or dr.) juan ton

thoughts? the juan ton thing cracks me up so much...but i figure we'll run into the same issues as mr. fob.

oh, and speaking of misters and doctors, i just updated my resume. i figure it's about time to find a job. here's my last line:

interests: golf, snowboarding, discovering new restaurants, following the NBA, and mastering dr. mario (NES version)

...yup, i still hope to beat steph and mama yi one day.

Insert Name Here

as i mentioned a while back, few bschool friends and i have been trying to run a small business called mrfob. we take people to undiscovered authentic ethnic restaurants, order them food, and teach a little something about the cuisine. the whole thing has been so much fun...until last week when we started to receive complaints that the name of our company was not...um...PC.

there's so much more to this story than i probably should tell in a public forum like this. i guess we always knew our name is edgy, but i absolutely love it. it's fobulous! since i and the world around me have always used it in a playful manner, such as calling myself a fob, i never thought much of it. but i've learned that american society is more sensitive than pmsing chicks.

in any case, my team currently is considering new names. i tried to rebel, but i know it's the right thing for us. we've kicked around some ideas, but you = smart / creative / politically correct and have better ones?

my favorite thus far is going by a symbol (perhaps chopsticks) and calling ourselves "the company formerly known as mrfob." har har, i make my fobby self laugh.