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Ruby Chow a pioneer of Chinese-American community died last Wednesday morning. She was a flourishing business woman and a politician as well. She holds the first Chinese restaurant outside of Chinatown.
She has served well for three terms as a politician and she proved that women can do things that they think are limited to men.
Several Asian-Americans are up to bringing home the gold from the 2008 Beijing. Some of them are:
Badminton: Howard Bach – Bach was born in Saigon, Vietnam and grew up in San Francisco. And he also continued to pursue his passion for badminton at YMCA in U.S
Cycling: Kim Hayashi – 22 years and was born in Hawaii and will be competing for BMX racing.
Swimming: Tara Kirk – He is a half Chinese half Filipino and grew up in U.S. He was a champion in swimming since 2001.]
Table Tennis: Gao Jun Chang – She was born in Boading, China and now a U.S. citizen and is residing in Gaithersburg, Maryland. She had been playing table tennis since she was still 5 years old.
Judo: Taylor Takata – He is representing the U.S. for the 60-kilogram weight division for Olympics. And he is from Wahaiawa, Hawaii.
Rhythmic Gymnastics: Lisa Wang – An Asian-American which had won several championships already with Rhythmic Gymnastics. She will be studying at Yale University and will be taking up international studies or journalism.
Artistic Gymnastics: Ivana Hong – His parents are Chinese but they were born in Vietnam and now living in Laguna Hills, California.
Kevin Tan – who was a hyperactive child, but has won many to championships as a gymnast.
Yewki Tomita – a 23-year old native of Arizona got into the competition for the 2008 Olympics. His parents owned a gym that’s this was is stepping stone to becoming a good gymnast.
Sho Nakamori – He was still 7 years old when he got into the sport. This was also his parents’ favorite sport that’s why he was influenced by them.
Raj Bhavsar – a native of Texas who used furniture as his practice tools for gymnastics.
Diving: Haley Ishimatsu – She is a 15-year old girl from Seal Beach, California who is the representative for diving.
Kimiko Soldati – also a representative for diving and is a half Japanese.
Field Hockey: Binh Hoang – He was born in Vietnam and is now living at West Lake Village, California. He is already playing field hockey while he was still 7 years old.
Last May 28 at the Mercury, Koreatown L.A. took place the formal signing of a collective agreement of Asian-American business owners in Southern California.
Envoys like Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai chambers of commerce in S. California have gathered together for the event in order for them to meet and exploit power and develop economic chances.
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,”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?