LA recap

Ah, another fun week spent in LA. I still enjoy immensely this annual trip even though it's pretty much the same every year. Well, I did plan a shorter trip this time to save some money, and it was a good thing that I could book my normal hotel with IBM rates to get some additional savings. :-)

Some of the more exciting moments for this trip includes running into Cuba Gooding Jr. at Tower Records (thumbs up to Gnarls Barkley and Nelly Furtado as my recent listening to artists). Hehe, it was pretty exciting for me, but I was able to not bug him. ^_^ Other than that, I had a chance to see and chat with Lisa for a bit which is all good. I also had a brief encounter with Paris Hilton (after like a freaking 2+ hours wait). She was on one of her good days and looked pretty hot. ;-)
The new Lara Croft model is very nice too. :-) The show that Namco put on is always fun to watch and Jen and Sarah did a great job as usual. (^_^) The games were fun as well and I am looking forward to Hellgate London and Tabula Rasa. Spore looks to be the next big thing too! Got to see a bit of the PS3 and Wii, but since I am not a big console person, it wasn't as important to me. WoW expansion didn't do that much to me too. Ran into John and Kevin as well and John won an Alienware laptop!!!! Gah!!! I want to win one too!

The biggest miss that occurred may have been with the Access E3 party that happened at the House of Blues (right across from the hotel I was staying at). The party supposedly boasted Jessica Alba as one of the attendees... Oh well... maybe one of these days.

All in all, it was a fun week, although I am definitely getting old since the camera bag seems to get a bit heavier each year, I get a little more tired each night after the show. Still, I better keep it up as long as I am able to. Go go E3 2007! ;-)