The Asian-American and Music
I thought I would write a little bit about my relation to music since it is such an integral part of my life. For one, ...
Perspectives
Tiger's Hard Rocky Road to Redemption
As long as your heart is beating the road to redemption is there to walk. Tiger is no exception.
South Philly High Back In The News
Okay, not the mainstream news, but the race-aware and Asian-American blogospheres. It looks like there's trouble stirring in South Philadelphia again and it isn't of ...
Remembering Christmas After a Breakup
Breakups hurt. It’s been well-documented. And sadly, all the clichés are true. Sleeping is a chore, food tastes like sawdust and sometimes, it’s hard to
Here Comes The Jeremy Lin Show
It looks like I was a little early to jump on the bandwagon for the Jeremy Lin show because this kid is blowing up big ...
Multi-Racial Land: A Racist Christmas Song
In the spirit of the season I wanted to remember those special people who give meaning to our lives but are too modest to take ...
Obama on Legalizing Hookers, Drugs, Gambling
A young man at a recent Obama town hall meeting in Pennsylvania suggested legalizing non-violent crimes like prostitution, drug sales
Experiencing The Generational Rift Firsthand
I recently took up a temp job as a favor to a parent from my church. It was probably the hardest earned $140.00 I've ever ...
The World Has Tiger by the Tale
You don't become a Tiger Woods without an indomitable will. You also don't become a Tiger Woods without mortgaging the deepest recesses of your personal ...
My Favorite Part of Thanksgiving
I grew up in a primarily White neighborhood so I got the full Thanksgiving experience as a kid. You imagine it, I probably did it. ...
Love Knows No Boundaries
I was going to write about the upcoming holiday season but this topic just kept creeping up on the blogs I lurk on.
An Asian American Thanksgiving
We have a long weekend to stuff ourselves and sit back with full bellies and pick our teeth reflecting on the things we have to ...
The Meteoric Rise of John Cho
Last week, the bluray version of Star Trek came out. Star Trek, being the surprisingly good movie that it is, was bought by a couple ...
Jeremy Lin: A Cut Above the Stereotype
The sports world was abuzz last week with the ridiculous game-winning three pointer executed in triple overtime
Rushed by Christmas Amid Lingering Halloween
Christmas is officially in the house. Or in the Walmart I went to anyway, primped and ready to slump on a plastic tree branch, vegetate ...
Manny Pacquiao Being Manny Pacquiao
I've recently become interested in boxing. I know, a timely interest considering the depth and height of the bandwagon that holds all of the Manny ...
Big Ups to Disney's 'Up'!
Pixar has the uncanny ability to strike gold with everything they put their hand at. That is still the case with Pixar's latest animation project
Obama Plays His Asia Card
To the rest of the world Barack Obama represents the hope of a U.S. willing to lead the community of nations instead of bullying it. ...
Change That Means Something to Real Americans
Last Saturday the word Obama and so many Americans have been clamoring for has finally climbed out of its symbolic snakehole and into the much ...
Drawing Life's Key Lesson from Into The Wild
A couple friends and I have gotten together on a weekly basis to study literature in the modern construction known as a book club. It's ...
Season-Ending Notes: Asian Baseball Players in the News!
Baseball season has ended but there are still a couple of Asian-related baseball news bytes making their rounds that have caught my attention for the ...
Asian Men and White Women: Missed Signals
The rap about us Asian guys is that white chicks don't dig us. I don't know the joker who started that myth, but I can ...
Asian American Talent Finds Joy in Online Videos
I’ve never been a trend chaser. Maybe it’s that stubborn pride, but I’ve always hated being told what to do, whether it be what I ...
Halloween Identity Crises and Slutty Witches
With Halloween around the corner, I asked my little brother what he wanted to be. Instead of the concrete answer I was expecting, he sighed ...
My Sassy Girl Lost in Hollywood's Translation
There's an idea that some of us subconsciously subscribe to that goes a little something like this: the rest of the world might have something ...
Education Reforms Aint the Key to American Prosperity
For some time now there's been a kind of national hysteria about the loss of "American jobs" to other countries and the "hollowing out" of ...
Asian Establishment in Top American Cities
From New York to Los Angeles, Seattle to Houston, a transformation is taking place in American cities. An aging population of mostly whites and blacks ...
Facebook Kills Real Life, Then Dies
The digital camera boom probably owes much to the fact that the under-25 generation lives to post Facebook updates. How else than through uploading countless ...
Of Time and Fat
Time was you hardly ever saw a fat Asian. Nowadays I see more, though still not as often as fat people in general. The assumption ...
Connecting with Other Asian Americans
Once you learn to appreciate yourself in all your Asian American glory, you are ready to appreciate similar qualities in other Asian Americans. Shared experiences ...
Time to Get a New Mirror
Growing up in American society has the unfortunate effect of conditioning young Asians to look to Whites to set the standard. The inevitable effect is ...
Discarding Social Conditioning
You've recognized that becoming a secure Asian American isn't a birthright but a struggle, and that the struggle is shared by all Asian Americans as ...
Becoming a Secure Asian American (Pts. 1 - 4)
A reader asks: "How do you transition into being a self-confident Asian American if you currently think of yourself as a pathetic white-washed Asian, a ...
Sexualizing Homosexuality
I spent the majority of my life in sunny Los Angeles, where the only trend more fashionable than skinny jeans and the grapefruit diet is ...
What the Global Power Shift Means for Asian Americans
We are witnessing one of history's great power shifts. I'm not talking about the massive military parade China is putting on for the PRC's 60th ...
The Lou Jing Ripple Effect
What constitutes one's identity? This is the question that has recently come up when Lou Jing, a mixed-race Shanghainese woman, has become the focal point ...
Asian Men and Interracial Dating
When I see an Asian man with a non-Asian woman, I take notice. We all do, because they aren't so common. That rarity suggests different ...
Why I Love Los Angeles
I absolutely love Los Angeles. After traveling more than I have in the last five years within the last two weeks (I went to New ...
The Race Factor in Asian American Life
An Ohio football coach was convicted of setting fire to his own house and, presumedly, spray painted racial slurs on his own car to lend ...
The End of Cars As We Know Them
I'm not a car guy. I'm an appliance guy. I don't get turned on by appliances and rarely talk about them. But I do appreciate ...
Rising Asian American Stars
The highly-anticipated CW premier of “Melrose Place” aired last week, boasting a cast of young, budding talent including an actress with striking Asian features named ...
The U.S. Open and Asian Tennis Parents
Thanks to a nightmare rain delay and my preference for using the DVR to compress matches down to a fast-paced blur, I won't learn until ...
Revisiting My Childhood : A Weekender Back East
I'm sitting here in the basement of my childhood at the precipice of nostalgia. It's not exactly the basement of the house I grew up ...
Asian Reality Stars Shine Bright
My friend Michelle, who currently resides in New York, recently became close friends with Jun Song, a Korean-American Manhattan-based former investment banker who also happened ...
The Brainy Bunch, Anyone?
Every generation has its family sitcoms. First it was “Leave it to Beaver”, then “The Brady Bunch”. Later came “The Cosby Show”, which kicked off ...
Asian Students Under Assault
It's been a long time since I've been in the hormone-charged racially-aware atmosphere of high school but a feature I read this week about the ...
Asian Southerners
When my parents told me they were moving from our home in California to Alabama, I envisioned a sparsely populated vacuum infested with greasy deep-fried ...
Dear Will Smith
At age 10, most girls had just graduated Barbie and entered the tailspinning world of boys, but I was light-years ahead of the curve. I ...
Unsticking Japan
I am delighted that the LDP has lost power in Japan after 55 years of nearly continuous rule. It's not because I believe that the ...
Confessions of a Happy Asian American
Some people bitch about being Asian in the U.S. of A. Me, I live for it. I tried joining the majority once. No, it wasn't ...
The Asian-American and Music
I thought I would write a little bit about my relation to music since it is such an integral part of my life. For one, ...
Tiger's Hard Rocky Road to Redemption
As long as your heart is beating the road to redemption is there to walk. Tiger is no exception.
South Philly High Back In The News
Okay, not the mainstream news, but the race-aware and Asian-American blogospheres. It looks like there's trouble stirring in South Philadelphia again and it isn't of ...
Remembering Christmas After a Breakup
Breakups hurt. It’s been well-documented. And sadly, all the clichés are true. Sleeping is a chore, food tastes like sawdust and sometimes, it’s hard to
Here Comes The Jeremy Lin Show
It looks like I was a little early to jump on the bandwagon for the Jeremy Lin show because this kid is blowing up big ...
Multi-Racial Land: A Racist Christmas Song
In the spirit of the season I wanted to remember those special people who give meaning to our lives but are too modest to take ...
Obama on Legalizing Hookers, Drugs, Gambling
A young man at a recent Obama town hall meeting in Pennsylvania suggested legalizing non-violent crimes like prostitution, drug sales
Experiencing The Generational Rift Firsthand
I recently took up a temp job as a favor to a parent from my church. It was probably the hardest earned $140.00 I've ever ...
The World Has Tiger by the Tale
You don't become a Tiger Woods without an indomitable will. You also don't become a Tiger Woods without mortgaging the deepest recesses of your personal ...
My Favorite Part of Thanksgiving
I grew up in a primarily White neighborhood so I got the full Thanksgiving experience as a kid. You imagine it, I probably did it. ...
Love Knows No Boundaries
I was going to write about the upcoming holiday season but this topic just kept creeping up on the blogs I lurk on.
An Asian American Thanksgiving
We have a long weekend to stuff ourselves and sit back with full bellies and pick our teeth reflecting on the things we have to ...
The Meteoric Rise of John Cho
Last week, the bluray version of Star Trek came out. Star Trek, being the surprisingly good movie that it is, was bought by a couple ...
Jeremy Lin: A Cut Above the Stereotype
The sports world was abuzz last week with the ridiculous game-winning three pointer executed in triple overtime
Rushed by Christmas Amid Lingering Halloween
Christmas is officially in the house. Or in the Walmart I went to anyway, primped and ready to slump on a plastic tree branch, vegetate ...
Manny Pacquiao Being Manny Pacquiao
I've recently become interested in boxing. I know, a timely interest considering the depth and height of the bandwagon that holds all of the Manny ...
Big Ups to Disney's 'Up'!
Pixar has the uncanny ability to strike gold with everything they put their hand at. That is still the case with Pixar's latest animation project
Obama Plays His Asia Card
To the rest of the world Barack Obama represents the hope of a U.S. willing to lead the community of nations instead of bullying it. ...
Change That Means Something to Real Americans
Last Saturday the word Obama and so many Americans have been clamoring for has finally climbed out of its symbolic snakehole and into the much ...
Drawing Life's Key Lesson from Into The Wild
A couple friends and I have gotten together on a weekly basis to study literature in the modern construction known as a book club. It's ...
Season-Ending Notes: Asian Baseball Players in the News!
Baseball season has ended but there are still a couple of Asian-related baseball news bytes making their rounds that have caught my attention for the ...
Asian Men and White Women: Missed Signals
The rap about us Asian guys is that white chicks don't dig us. I don't know the joker who started that myth, but I can ...
Asian American Talent Finds Joy in Online Videos
I’ve never been a trend chaser. Maybe it’s that stubborn pride, but I’ve always hated being told what to do, whether it be what I ...
Halloween Identity Crises and Slutty Witches
With Halloween around the corner, I asked my little brother what he wanted to be. Instead of the concrete answer I was expecting, he sighed ...
My Sassy Girl Lost in Hollywood's Translation
There's an idea that some of us subconsciously subscribe to that goes a little something like this: the rest of the world might have something ...
Education Reforms Aint the Key to American Prosperity
For some time now there's been a kind of national hysteria about the loss of "American jobs" to other countries and the "hollowing out" of ...
Asian Establishment in Top American Cities
From New York to Los Angeles, Seattle to Houston, a transformation is taking place in American cities. An aging population of mostly whites and blacks ...
Facebook Kills Real Life, Then Dies
The digital camera boom probably owes much to the fact that the under-25 generation lives to post Facebook updates. How else than through uploading countless ...
Of Time and Fat
Time was you hardly ever saw a fat Asian. Nowadays I see more, though still not as often as fat people in general. The assumption ...
Connecting with Other Asian Americans
Once you learn to appreciate yourself in all your Asian American glory, you are ready to appreciate similar qualities in other Asian Americans. Shared experiences ...
Time to Get a New Mirror
Growing up in American society has the unfortunate effect of conditioning young Asians to look to Whites to set the standard. The inevitable effect is ...
Discarding Social Conditioning
You've recognized that becoming a secure Asian American isn't a birthright but a struggle, and that the struggle is shared by all Asian Americans as ...
Becoming a Secure Asian American (Pts. 1 - 4)
A reader asks: "How do you transition into being a self-confident Asian American if you currently think of yourself as a pathetic white-washed Asian, a ...
Sexualizing Homosexuality
I spent the majority of my life in sunny Los Angeles, where the only trend more fashionable than skinny jeans and the grapefruit diet is ...
What the Global Power Shift Means for Asian Americans
We are witnessing one of history's great power shifts. I'm not talking about the massive military parade China is putting on for the PRC's 60th ...
The Lou Jing Ripple Effect
What constitutes one's identity? This is the question that has recently come up when Lou Jing, a mixed-race Shanghainese woman, has become the focal point ...
Asian Men and Interracial Dating
When I see an Asian man with a non-Asian woman, I take notice. We all do, because they aren't so common. That rarity suggests different ...
Why I Love Los Angeles
I absolutely love Los Angeles. After traveling more than I have in the last five years within the last two weeks (I went to New ...
The Race Factor in Asian American Life
An Ohio football coach was convicted of setting fire to his own house and, presumedly, spray painted racial slurs on his own car to lend ...
The End of Cars As We Know Them
I'm not a car guy. I'm an appliance guy. I don't get turned on by appliances and rarely talk about them. But I do appreciate ...
Rising Asian American Stars
The highly-anticipated CW premier of “Melrose Place” aired last week, boasting a cast of young, budding talent including an actress with striking Asian features named ...
The U.S. Open and Asian Tennis Parents
Thanks to a nightmare rain delay and my preference for using the DVR to compress matches down to a fast-paced blur, I won't learn until ...
Revisiting My Childhood : A Weekender Back East
I'm sitting here in the basement of my childhood at the precipice of nostalgia. It's not exactly the basement of the house I grew up ...
Asian Reality Stars Shine Bright
My friend Michelle, who currently resides in New York, recently became close friends with Jun Song, a Korean-American Manhattan-based former investment banker who also happened ...
The Brainy Bunch, Anyone?
Every generation has its family sitcoms. First it was “Leave it to Beaver”, then “The Brady Bunch”. Later came “The Cosby Show”, which kicked off ...
Asian Students Under Assault
It's been a long time since I've been in the hormone-charged racially-aware atmosphere of high school but a feature I read this week about the ...
Asian Southerners
When my parents told me they were moving from our home in California to Alabama, I envisioned a sparsely populated vacuum infested with greasy deep-fried ...
Dear Will Smith
At age 10, most girls had just graduated Barbie and entered the tailspinning world of boys, but I was light-years ahead of the curve. I ...
Unsticking Japan
I am delighted that the LDP has lost power in Japan after 55 years of nearly continuous rule. It's not because I believe that the ...
Confessions of a Happy Asian American
Some people bitch about being Asian in the U.S. of A. Me, I live for it. I tried joining the majority once. No, it wasn't ...
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