A taste of Fun

Damn, already a week since I met her for the fifth time.

So last Saturday, the Westfield Fox Hills mall, I mean, the Westfield CULVER CITY mall was hosting a fashion event with Kim Kardashian as a celebrity guest over there. Now I've seen her so many times before, but this one was way different. I got there at about 15 minutes to 7 in the morning. The 405 San Diego freeway was clear on the roads and fog was everwhere, which I didn't mind. When I got to the mall, it was pratically empty. I parked in the garage and there were no cars there at all. When I got inside, there was nobody inside the mall except the overnight workers putting the finishing touches on cleaning the floors. I got to the center of the mall across the Macys,where the event was taking place, so it looked like I was the first one there. 5 minutes later, these two guys and this girl came. I told them that I was the first one here, but they said that they were at the mall since 3AM, and the came from Orange County. I wanted to be the first one in line, but I let those people go ahead. Then later on more people started coming and by 8:00, there was already 40 people in line. The reason why was because the first 100 people in line will get a picture with Kim and also her autograph.

That's the reason why I came for this event, otherwise I could've easy skipped it if I wanted to. The thing is that I happen to have Kim's first ever cover shot of her in front of complex magazine that I got back in Feburary 2007, before she was as famous as she is right now. The event didn't start until 12PM and until then, I met so many people in line who REALLY like her. This one guy I met gave up his 11:00 shift at the JCPenny in the mall just to meet her, which I understand cause to a guy's point of view... it's Kim Kardashian. I did kind of the same thing when Britney Spears came to the Fashion Square mall in Sherman Oaks back in her "conceided" years in early 2008. I forced a 15 minute break from working at the Apple Store just to get some shots of her on my cell phone, and it was worth it. But yeah, everybody was cool, even though it was mostly females who are between 16-20 and some of their families.

I really wanted to bring some of my friends to this event, but unfortunatley since November has more birthdays than any other month (think St. Valentines Day) they had other plans on that day. The most obvious is a weekend in Vegas where they can LEGALLY raid the casinos, douse themselves piss-drunk in every liquor you can think of and find yourself broke at the Sapphire adult club the next morning. The reason why I want to bring them is because not only do they keep asking me about Kim, but they also never got a chance to be up close with at famous person. They won't be able to get that chance since times are getting harder. I'm not really doing this for myself, but since they decied to go wild after turning 21, so be it.

Later on Kim Kardashian came out, said some stuff to the people, answered some questions. Then she came to the meet and greet session. Some VIP people and 2 handicapped people selected by KIIS-FM got to go first. Then when she turned to us, the crowd in line went crazy. I didn't think she was gonna sign my Complex magazine, but she did cause I was the only one there with it. Everybody else had her recent cover issue on Cosmopolitan magazine. She also took my Sharpie even though there are 5 other Sharpies on the table next to her stack of head shots. I told her she can keep my pen.

After I finally took a picture with her and got her autograph, I walked this one girl that I met in line to her car. She looks a lot like her, and she's really nice. She gave me her number and after that, I saw two Cadillacs in front of the mall. I went over ther to see what was happeneing. I thought they were promoting their new 2010 model line-up vehicles and shit, but instead they said that they were letting people test drive their vehicles and to get a free Starbucks gift card. In my mind, I was like "Are you fucking serious?! Were in a recession and you're letting people test drive $40,000+ vehicles and giving away free gift cards?" I felt like I was residing at one of Donald Trump's timeshares or something like that. They told me there was no catch, no credit checks and they weren't persuading people to purchase the car. So I gave in and decided to test drive the 2010 CTS 4 door sedan. Man was that thing fast! Especially in the 5-speed shift mode on Automatic Transmission, I was flying all over Fox Hills. But it was a very nice car though. At the end they let me choose a Jamba Juice gift card or a Starbucks gift card and I went for Starbucks.

I then went to my cousin's house to pick up my brother over there. He just the new 2010 Ford Mustang and this was my first time seeing it. I didn't feel like test driving it since I drove the Cadillac, but he handed me the keys and I was like "What the hell". His Mustang was nice, hard to compare to the CTS I drove earlier. After that, I chilled there for a bit and ate this mexican food that my aunt got from a mexican restraunt. Then me and my brother left and he wanted to go to the American Apperal store in Studio City, but since were in Culver City, I told him that we should check out the one in Santa Monica at the Third Street Promenade.

When we got to the Third Street Promenade, it was already dark. I haven't been there in a year and a half. Last time I was here, they knocked down the Santa Monica Place mall right next to it. We check out the Apple Store there, by the way, this is the only Apple Store in Southern California with a theater cause every Apple store used to have theaters for presentations and other stuff. We saw that there were packing up what was already a session that happened at the theater there and then we saw Jason Schwartzman there who just talked about a film he's in called Fantastic Mr. Fox. I heard of him and I didn't even know he was gonna be there, so me and my brother got his autograph and posed for a photo with him. After that then we went to the American Apparel there and checked out some other stores there and went home afterwards.

Now it's Saturday night one week later as I write this, and it felt like it just happened today, except that it didn't. What happened today was that I went go see my younger sister sing at my pop's church today and USC got their asses handed to them by Stanford 55-21 at the Coliseum, which was a very rare loss at home. The only difference between today and last Saturday was not because it's a week apart. Its that last week had more to it, kept you upbeat and it had a lot of suprises. They say that when you have fun, time go by very fast. And when you taste it, the flavor goes by very fast.