Phillip Yang - The daily news of his life

I had an award ceremony hosted by my mother's real estate company ERA New Star Realty & Investments, you can find their link here. The award ceremony was at Oxford Palace in downtown Los Angeles and was decorated very nicely with all the high end merchandise you expect from a 4 star hotel. I went with 3 of my friends, Arvin, Evan and Sam and two of them got awards totaling $500 each straight into their bank accounts. As for me, I was bored out of my mind during the whole experience until the end when my mother tells me that I'll be the one telling the closing remarks for the audience. At this moment in time, i was in shock and didn't know what to say. Imagine me with my face open and eyes looking straight into the abyss with complete distraught and anger at my mother who was only trying to show me off in front of her coworkers. About 2 minutes later, I had my speech lined up in my mind and went up to the stage in front of 200 of my peers. My speech was about community service and how we should be responsible as Korean Americans in our generation to teach and outreach others in sports, academics, and community. In addition to that, I also thanked the president and CEO of the company for giving us these scholarships (or bribes) as some people call them. When closing, I said that I noticed a lot of UCLA students and mentioned I was a USC student and said something about how USC will win the football game this year. I would give my speech about a 4/5 considering the amount of time I had to prepare. It was very stressful but well worth it.