Sunday, August 12, 2007
Palace of Fine arts at, ohhh.. 11:30pm.
What was i doing there so late at night? One of my coworkers volunteered me into hanging out at the Miss Asian American Pageant. Yes it was volunteer volunteer. I got paid in food, which was hotdogs, the ultra tasty supergreasy baby chicken drumsticks, and the ability to roam freely around. i find it slightly weird that it's the 22nd year and they're looking for volunteers?
Got there around 5:15pm and the games didn't begin until 7pm. I met a very enthusiastic SFPD officer and he's looking for love, or something. Anyhow it was just like one of fluffieladys shows, people running frantic, everybody is more important than everybody else, etc etc. At first the theatre was about 3/4 full at the opening, but of course due to chinese time, aka filipino time, aka
i guess how it works is, the girls roam around wherever they live and try to get sponsors for donations. When they do get the sponsorship they hang out at the place to drum up support for themselves as well as for the sponsor. They are also escorted by some bachelor (so i'm out) around to do this, my coworker just wants the food, as the 'court' roams from restaurant to restaurant.
Anyway, the events are:
1)an into with an ethnic costume
2)swimsuit (woo!)
3)talent show, a few can actually sing!
4)evening gown portion
-Then it gets chopped down from 22 to 10 ladies
5)a speech involving a 'platform' of what they believe in
6)and a random question, which some are really lame, the questions. i.e. do you think cell phones should be banned in the classroom..
The best platform was a girl talked about donating blood and its good to save lives etc etc. Too bad shes disqualified 'cuz the minimum weight to donate is 110 pounds. Doh! Best Random question was: "what information would you pass down to your future generations?" My answer woulda been 'keep the front sight high when you draw', or 'remember the right thumb presses down to disengage the safety'.
There were no incidents, i guess previous years there were people sneaking into the back into the dressing rooms and what not. Silly Peepers!
My least blurry pic. I never did get to take many pictures, oh well. After the pageant (11pm) there was the after party, which sounded like a serious midnight snack! So sorry i bailed and floated back home.
Lets see earlier in the day, i shot a little and ate at Houlihans by the South San Francisco Convention center. Houlihans was the dessert spot to go back in the day, the chain ran across the nation. My favorite was their Chocolate Cappuccino cake and their Schroom appitizers were good too. This South City place is a bit on the swanky spiffy side, dark wood panels, glass bar, not the classic rustic junk on the walls like before. Food was pretty good, some items were there and some weren't, it's been so long that i don't remember what they had. When it came to the dessert, they have a mini-dessert menu for 2.99 you can get whatever. So of course since i'm there, might as well go for the CardiacEnducing-SugarHigh-BloodThickening-ChocoDeath! cake. Alas, it wasn't meant to be, the cake was all hard, small and non-layered, there was no frosting anywhere, which is where all the sugary goodness is. And the ice cream which before was chocolate and was needed to tone down the sugar (yes eat chocolate ice cream to unsweeten the taste), was changed to vanilla.. boo! Other than that, nifty place, ritzy looking but not too expensive (10$ lunch entrees, 14-20$ dindin), good food, but no go on the death cake (weaksauce!).
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