Ice Skating!!!!

As promised here is the recap of APASA's ice skating outing. We carpooled out on the night of Friday, October 26th to the Oakland Ice Center.

There we met up with an old friend, former APASA President (of 2006-2007) Jessica Lee and her younger sister.


We hit the ice right away with varying degrees of success. Some of us literally "hit" the ice, while others glided along like naturals.


That said, it didn't matter whether we were gold-medal worthy or just wobbling along while clutching the wall. What mattered was we all had fun.

Here's one of APASA's members cheerfully performing the Soulja Boy dance on ice skates! It features a brief cameo by one of the younger kids that was zipping around the ice cutting people off and "icing" each other. We had some issues with them at first about respecting other's right to skate safely but we ended up befriending them in the end. And now we present the world premier of Soulja Boy on Ice!



And now, more pictures...

Snowball incoming!


Such focus...one foot in front of the other...gently push forward...


We finished out our time at the rink with ice skating choo-choo train. It was a nice way to bring us all together at the end for one last half lap around the rink. And guess what...we have video of it! (Albeit wobbly video of it)



And what APASA outing would be complete without a stop at Berkeley's "Asian Ghetto" for boba and Steve's Korean BBQ? A fitting close to a great evening.

From the director of Better Luck Tomorrow, it's Finishing the Game

APASA come check out Finishing the Game, a movie by Justin Lin the director who brought us Better Luck Tomorrow, Annapolis, and The Fast and The Furious 3: Tokyo Drift. This film needs our support! It features many of your favorite actors from Better Luck Tomorrow including Sung Kang and Roger Fan as well as such well known actors like James Franco and Dustin Nguyen. There's even a cameo by a certain someone who shall we say, can't be touched.

The film is making its Bay Area debut this Friday, October 19th at the 3 Landmark Theaters in San Francisco and the Landmark Shattuck Theater in Berkeley. Consider this an unofficial APASA outing. We'll be going to the Bridge Theater (3010 Geary Blvd.) in San Francisco for the 7pm showing so if you're interested please contact Tim or Rommel by phone or email, or leave a comment here so we can plan to provide transportation for you. If you can't make it Friday with us, please try to make it out some time this weekend to either theater to support this Asian American film production. It's movies like this that provide Asian Americans with stereotype-busting opportunities in the entertainment and media career fields.

Advance tickets will be sold online at:

https://tickets.landmarktheatres.com/Landmark.aspx?TheatreID=222