Jerome White Jr. is on stage and is about to perform. With his hip hop garb of baggy jeans, oversized shirt, do rag, and baseball cap, one would think he’s about to perform some hip hop songs…but instead he sings maudlin love ballads…in perfect Japanese.
Growing up in Pittsburgh, “Jero” (as he’s called in Japan) got [...]
Siliconvalley.com recently published an interesting article discussing about Vietnamese returnees playing an important role in bringing the high-tech culture to Vietnam. This is particularly happening in Ho Chi Minh City, otherwise known as “Little San Jose” (Referring to the area in California which Silicon Valley is). Longtime Vietnamese Silicon Valley residents are heading back to [...]
Here are some interesting news articles I found about animals
What are Japanese training/feeding/etc. birds these days?
image credit: www.alalam.ir
Nagareyama, Japan. In the outskirts of Japan, a poor little parrot named Yosuke got lost and what does a parrot do when he gets lost? He recites its name and address! This African grey parrot was rescued by [...]
I’ve been completely unaware of this…maybe I’ve been living under a rock? For those that do not know, the bile and gall bladder of bears are used in traditional Asian medicine, which are believed to have medicinal properties. This in effect causes approximately 12,000 bears to be raised in captivity, and the conditions they [...]
Being a federal employee, I was able to attend the 7th annual Asian Pacific American Federal Career Advancement Summit. It was held at a swanky hotel in Washington D.C. (Marriott Renaissance) and lasted from 7:30 am to 5 pm (unfortunately, my supervisor only gave me 4 hours to go to this). This event is hosted [...]
For a while, I’ve noticed this. A situation occurs where your ethnicity is mentioned, and it feels like most of the time, non-Asians automatically assume you’re chinese. Two things can be basically going on in your mind:
1) You are Chinese and are like “Wow, you have a sixth sense of Asianness!”
2) You aren’t Chinese and [...]
So I was talking with my sister a while ago and she brought up something I found quite amusing. Apparently she said something along the lines of her not being Asian enough, and she doesn’t have the “aura”…On the other hand, apparently she said I do, lol. Weird thing is though, I hardly know any [...]
Shanghai Kiss is a romantic comedy that came out in 2007 as a direct to dvd movie. The main character is Liam Liu(Ken Leung). Two other important characters are Adelaide Bourbon(Hayden Panettiere) and Micki Yang(Kelly Hu). This is a movie about Liam Liu, a Chinese American, who grows up trying to live the American dream [...]
If you are Asian, chances are when you are having an alcoholic beverage, your face or whole body starts to turn red (This happens mostly to just Asians and not Pacific Islanders from what I understand). This what people refer to as the “Asian Glow”. When this happens, “those that don’t know” consider that [...]
I watched this the following day after it came out in theaters (04/26/2008). I wasn’t expecting to much due to the general trend of sequels sucking majorly. To my surprise however, it was funny and I enjoyed it! I am still debating on whether it is better than White Castle, but at least I thought [...]