06.03.08
Posted in Asia at 2:11 pm by william_lee_intern
Last may 28, Bagram Air field in Afghanistan celebrated Asian Pacific Heritage Month. They had colorful origami, paper cranes and some food and cultural show.
Making paper cranes is their traditional way of having sick people get well. They also had several performances like Hula from Hawaii performed by the Polynesian volunteers, Huka dance(war dance) which was performed by the Maoris of New Zealand done by their four members. Army Staff Sgt. Patty Troutman said: “You never realize how many Asian Pacific people there are in the military until there is events like this,”
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Posted in Education at 1:33 pm by william_lee_intern
Several Filipino-American youth have joined The Scripps National Spelling Bee in the United States. It is also the longest-running program by the E.W. Scripps Company.
There are 18 youths who will be joining and contending for the title Spelling Bee Champion. The finals will be aired on ABC, Friday, 8pm-10pm ET.
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Posted in Sports at 1:32 pm by william_lee_intern
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The UFC fighter who have played last May 24 for the UFC 84 championships. It took place in MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
On the main event BJ Penn fought UFC lightweight title against the champion Sean Sherk.
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Posted in History at 12:16 pm by william_lee_intern
Bruce lee’s first break was the film enter the dragon, it is where he excelled as an artist with all of his signature moves in martial arts. Lou Gaul author of the book “The fist that Shook the World” said that Bruce lee was the only man who had introduce a new style of fighting, that they have never seen before.
He became one of the most important people in Time magazine last 1999 and he will also be having a theme park named after him, which will be built by China.
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Posted in Media and Entertainment at 12:15 pm by william_lee_intern
Asian-American film Festival will be held on July 10, Thursday. They will be featuring 2 new films, Princess of Nebraska directed by Wayne Wang and Ping Pong Playa directed by Jessica Yu.
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Posted in Business at 12:14 pm by william_lee_intern
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The Korean-American founder and CVO (Chief Visionary Officer) of MISFIT Financial Group Paul Kim is trying to save the prices of agriculture nowadays. He is planning to establish an agriculture-focused fund called Misfit-Delta, he is introducing it to Korea in order to help them recognize the prices of commodities.
Kim was born in Korea and later moved in U.S. with his parents. He finished Economics in Northwestern University and became a trader at a company called Cargill. He had been in the grain market for eight years.
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Posted in Blog at 2:03 am by Shirley Nah
I have come to find that in our generation many Asians are hopeless romantics and are more prone to melodramatic moods.
Within Asian media, content is centered around love centered themes. Dramas and mini-series deal with finding the perfect love. Even the content of Asian pop music is exclusively loved themed. While it’s true that almost everyone, regardless of race, searches for their soul mate, it seems that Asians have made an industry out of it–an industry that reflects their cultural obsession with love.
This obsession with finding the perfect love antes up the Asian dating scene. I find that girls and boys both expect the initial honeymoon phase to last forever like they see in the fairytale dramas. Moreover, there is a melodramatic air with which they approach relationships. This can be both good and bad, for I find that there are many cute things that happen during anniversaries and special moments. Everyday things are enough proof of their love; however, when the honeymoon attraction ends, the bumps in the relationship turn into deep melodramatic episodes. And what are these couples clawing at? Fighting to make that one relationship their fantasy love?
I am a bit of a romantic myself, and I do believe that everyone can find their soul mate. But, whether the glamorous and visibly exciting love that is witnessed in dramas and movies can be achieved is another story. Love can be exhilarating in its own subtle ways, and I fear that many Asians expect big gestured love or what I call “perfect timing” love–the gestures where everything falls into place at the right time. It makes being in a relationship, even finding a partner, difficult when your expectations for love are that high. It makes Asians more susceptible to falling in love with the feeling of love, something much more different than actually being in love.
It is okay to be a helpless romantic, but my caveat is to take it with a grain of salt and know that if you expect showy love like that, then you must also expect great heartache because a relationship will not always be about the perfect music and the perfect mood. “Love without pain, isn’t really romance” (Royksopp). And romance is what all real love stories are about, yes?
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06.02.08
Posted in Business at 7:46 pm by william_lee_intern
L.A.’s Little Tokyo the largest Japanese town in California has the largest indoor Japanese mall which was bought by six Korean-Americans. They have invested $35.5 million dollars for the shopping mall itself.
They will be converting it into Korean market, Korean-style spa and some Korean themed center. “We are not saying don’t come, you are not welcome,” he said. “We are saying let’s sit down and talk about what is good for your community and good for your business.” Korean-Americans said.
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Posted in World News at 7:11 pm by william_lee_intern
Dr. Ron Wang, a Ph.D from University of Iowa, has helped through Gulf coast Chinese-American Association to be of assistance to the victims of the earthquake in China.
“Out of all this terrible thing, there is something to be gained: That is what I wish for.” He says.
Gulf coast Chinese-American Association has raised almost $8,000 for the necessary things that the victims will need in order to survive…
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Posted in World News at 7:11 pm by william_lee_intern
Last June 1, 2008, Sunday Yao ming celebrates the Children’s Day with the kids in China while in the U.S.A. He celebrated it through a telephone conversation with. They had a long chat and the kids were actually asking questions to him.
The questions and topics are limited during the conversation and the kids can ask whatever they ask. At the end of the talk Yao told the kids to be brave and to have more patience, and a necessity in everyday life is hard work in order to see good results.
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