Meeting Messy
30th April 2006
Well, it was a whirlwind visit by Messy Christian to the Californian Southland. She came through on a media junket for the new Poseidon Adventure. She got to do the celebrity hobnobing with the likes of Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas and Emmie Rossum. And, I got to hobnob with her, which was thrilling enough! Actually getting to catch up with a highly popular blogger, especially one that was, at least initially, shrouded in some mystery, is great fun!
We only had a few hours to catch up before she hopped on a plane back to Malaysia. So, my wife, Liz and I jumped into my car and as we started off, I wondered where we could take her to help make her trip a little more memorable than just the four walls of her posh hotel room, the celeb-overdose and the otherwise concrete jungle of LA. I was hoping that we could give her another face of LA than the one that she might have had over the past couple of days.
As we were driving from Beverly Hills, I was racking my brains as to where we could spend a few hours that could be memorable for a girl who seemingly have seen it all, what with coming from a city with the famous other Twin Towers, tallest twin buildings in the world, and of grand megamalls. Plus, she has also traveled the world. So what could I show here that could at least be “different”?
Finally, I thought of Pasadena, a little city away from the hustle and bustle of LA with somewhat of a character of its own. Hopefully it was a good choice for her for I am not that familiar with this so-called City of Angels. Read the rest of this entry »
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