Asian & Asian American Stuff

23 Jul 2008 1907H

Happy Birthday, 十八樓C座!

I love this series on Commercial Radio in Hong Kong, which is now, to my surprise, in its 40th year, second only in longevity to the Archers on the BBC. Owing to the late hour, I’m rarely able to catch it [...]

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22 Jun 2008 1903H

About these Fukudome t-shirts. . .

Update: Mike Doughty was in town to play a few gigs, and he stopped by Wrigleyville, where, since they obviously caught his eye, he took a few snaps of the racist t-shirts.
1) Um, no, they really are racist. Slanty eyes and accent humor? Racist. Particularly white supremacist actually: there’s a whole century-old history of [...]

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11 Jun 2008 0626H

Asian Americans in higher ed, and . . . something else

The NYT published an article (also talked about in the LA Times) about this College Board study today: Asian Americans are not clustering in the STEM (science, tech, engineering, and medicine) fields anymore, but rather in business, management, social sciences and humanities. The STEM PhDs went to overseas students — only 20% of the degrees [...]

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04 Jun 2008 1655H

19 years

But I haven’t forgotten.
Those people need to be brought to justice. For that. And for this.

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28 May 2008 0837H

Wow, you know things must be bad when

you invite the military of your historically most hated enemy to come help you out.

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21 May 2008 0620H

Did anyone tell them

that certain things acceptable in the northern mainland are generally not acceptable in Chinese American households? So that if they go to their Chinese American friends homes and start belching and the like, they won’t endear themselves to anyone? Sigh.

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12 May 2008 0746H

In the old days. . .

they might have said that the dragons of the earth have been offended. I’m just sayin’.
Edit 3: Well, of course. Oh China. You will yet destroy yourself.
Edit 2: Of course last night in Chinatown the media dragged out the full court press to get local reaction, because, after all, Chinese are the same no [...]

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07 May 2008 1728H

D’oh!!!

So for years, I have misheard — nay, mis-sung! — a lyric in that aforementioned Leon Lai song:
今天分手像我完全負你
Gam tim fan sau jeung ngoh yuen chuen foo nei
as
今天分手像我完全歡喜
Gam tin fan sau jeung ngoh yuen chuen foon hei
What’s the difference?
The first line: “Today’s break-up I bear total responsibility for.”
My mistaken line: “Today’s break-up makes me feel totally [...]

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05 May 2008 2311H

對不起, 我愛您

多麼想用說話留住你
doh moh seung yung shuet wah lau jue nei
What other words can I say to make you stay?
心中想說
sam jung seung shuet
In my heart, I want to say,
一生之中 都只愛你
yat sang ji jung do ji ngoi nei
“In this life I love only you,”
為何換了對不起
wai hoh woon liu deui bat hei
How did it become, “I’m sorry”
T_T
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28 Apr 2008 1920H

Whoa

This morning on my way to work was intercepted on my way to the South entrance/exit of the Red Line Chinatown stop by Joanie Lum, now on CBS 2 Chicago, who is married to a very, very distant cousin of mine, like 9 generations out. Just wanted to say hi, but, no, had to get [...]

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