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. ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

California's Asian-Majority Generation

In about two dozen U.S. cities a generation of Asian Americans is reaching adulthood with scant knowledge of what it's like being a racial minority.

Vancouver Winter Games and the Speed-Skating Asians

Apolo Anton Ohno cut to the inside the final lap of the short-track 1500m speed skating final, trying to force the hand of the three ...

Obama's Clarity Wins the Day — Again

Bad leadership panders to confusion and creates more. Good leadership clears up the confusion to win support for good leadership. Barack Obama's presidency represents a ...

The Barbarity Hidden in the 'The Cove'

I had the opportunity to catch the award-winning documentary up for an Oscar this year The Cove, directed by Louie Psihoyos and written by Mark ...

Ridiculous YouTube Video Draws Ire of Asian American Bloggers

The Italianization of Japan

There was a time when all things Japanese was money. Rodeo and Fifth-Avenue shopkeepers drooled over Japanese tourists carrying wads of cheap dollars for anything ...

Asian Gluttons Beware: L.A.'s Most Treacherous Food Street

There's no shortage of streets packed with great Asian food in Southern California. But for me Pioneer Boulevard between Artesia and South Street

End of the Pete Carroll Era

What else is there to say? Sportswriters are having a field day with USC, USC coaching changes

American Clothes Make American Bodies

Some have blamed American fast food for the obesity epidemic. I blame American clothes.

Seafood Soiree: A Night at The Boiling Crab

A restaurant that my people have been raving about the last couple of years has been The Boiling Crab.

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 ...

Asian Las Vegas Pilgrimage

How many times have I vowed never to return to Las Vegas? This time I managed to keep the vow for two years.

France Nuyen and Vietnamese Identity

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 ...