Yay Giants! Annihilate the Texas Rangers! Go Giants!
Last coupla times they made it to the World Series, they lost, Will they win this time around? Only time will tell.... Only time will tell.... Maybe they've learned from their past mistakes. Let's hope so. We all gotta have faith. Faith that the Giants will CRUSH the Texas Rangers!
Bring it on home, baby!
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Yell-Oh Girls!: A Section by Section Book Review
Have you ever feel like you're on the outside looking in? Have you ever feel your (American) cultire is different from ancestral culture? Who are your role models? Who can you look up to?
This anthology is written from the prespective of teenage Asian American girls. It is about how they blend into the melting pot that is America.
From the 1st two chapters I read so far, it not easy to go with the flow, so to speak. The first section, Orientation: Finding the Way Home, it is about trying to fit in in this mass of white, male dominant society. I mean, the teachers who taught the girls were mostly male and white. The history textbooks didn't contain not one item about Asian or women. It is unjust! One writer went back to her ancestral land where she learned that women were submissive, obedient.Their feet were bounded. Yes, this was in China. All women back thenwere concubines, servants, mistresses, etc. I've never felt this way cause I've got good Chinese role models from Hong Kong=I watched Chinese movies and sometimes serials. I like many different kinds of Chinese music, mostly from Hong Kong.
Also, wherever Asians go, even if they born here in America or even Canada, they looks are a dead giveaway that they don't belong. Some get called derogatory names. Some feel if they go back to their ancestral land, they feel like they belong. Boy, were they wrong! The way the Asian American girls act, but mostly it's the way they dress and talk in little or no knowledge or their native tongue. So if they don't belong in the States and if they don't belong in their ancestral land, then I guess they're in limbo. Living in San Francisco, there is a wide multicultural ethnicity, so I never ever feel like I don't belong. Maybe people do take advantage of me when I travel to China or Hong Kong? I remember I was pickpocketed once if my brother hadn't been there. As for me, all of best friends from my younger days were Caucasians, so I never felt out of place cause went to a multidiverisity school. A coupl/a of my friends were Asian Americans. Now, I've got nothing to say about this cause I've lost touch w/ them.
The next section, Family Ties, is about how different (American) Caucasian families relate differently to Asian families.All Asian families want is for their kids to succeed and all Caucasian families want their kids is more independence. Speaking from experience, my parents never show affection toward each other or toward us kids. Neither did my grandparents. I just assume it was just the Chinese culture. Whenever they kiss or say 'I love you' I just surprise me. They never see the good points ( like was any); they just point out my flaws. They just at me.I guess they were looking out for me, but sometimes I feel stifle by their protectiveness.
Dolly Rage: This section is about assimilating into America, but at what cost?
In elementary school, I always have a crush on the Caucasian boys-they were and still are- best friends. One was a brunette w/ brown eyes (obviously) and the other was blond and had blue eyes. I knew I had no chance w/ them 'cause they were Caucasians. And maybe it was 'cause I shy. Besides, my parents wanted me to settle down w. a nice Chinese boy. As I learned in this book that Chinese, no make that all Asians, are taught to be demure and shy, my parents wanted me to be more outgoing.I do like talking about myself sometimes. My parents wanted me to be more outgoing b/c I was extremely shy. All that aside, when I was younger, I wish I look like my Caucasian friends-tall, willowy, not to mention blond, maybe freckles. I mean, why didn't I get freckles? (Later on, I learned that only Irish or people of Irish descent get freckles.)
Finding My Voice: This section is about identity. Do you feel like you are Asian or American?
Here's my two cents: when I was growing up, my grandparents, esp. my grandmother, would raise us the Asian way along w/ my mother. My grandmother believed in Buddhism. She would burn paper w/ sacred words every Chinese New Year, and not before she blessed everybody in the family: for my parents that they would have a prosperous year for their business and for us kids that we would get goood grades in school. My dad called her superstitious.
Of course, there's also the meals she prepared during Chinese New Year and every special occasion like our birthdays. Make that every nite. Unlike some American meals filled with appetizting food. Chinese dinner usually has a bowl -or more if you're big eaters like my cousins. How boring and mundane. But American meals are fun!
On the other hand, when I go to school, I would have all these American interests. When we were little, my brother and I would like to watch all kinds of American sports, esp. baseball (Go Giants!), foootball (the undefeated Niners!), and of course my mom, who was a basketball star herself in school liked watching basketball (Yeah, Warriors).
I would also immersed myself in teen magazines (I've a subscription to 16) and pop culture since I'm not great a student (That's not saying much!) I would rather read fiction than study/ The only non-fiction I ever read was about the latest up-and-coming stars.
I've had this question from time to time when I was with my Caucasian friends. My parents, grandparents never did understood why I would put the posters of my favorite celebs up on the walls or who they were. I just said I like them. Whenever I talked with my brother in English, my grandparents didn't understand what I was saying since they're only fluent in Chinese Cantonese. I only spoke with my friends and brother in English and spoke to my grandparents and parents in Chinese. Nowadays, I speak to my parents in both Chinese and English. So which culture would you say I am? I would say a little of both. I never felt like I didn't belong althoug my parents did push me to make more Chinese friends. Maybe 'cause my brother have more Chinese friends?
Girlwind: Emerging Voices for Change: How can one person the world, make a difference? It's even harder if you're a woman or a person of color. I mean, will the majority even listen to you, never mind show respect to you?
Take a stand
Fight for a cause
you believe in
Never stop
Make a difference-
in the lives of someone or the world at large
Make a change
No one's gonna do it for you
You may be the minority of race or sex
But soon,
People will take notice
And you won't be the minority any longeroo-
You will overcome all obstacles
to become the majority!
This anthology is written from the prespective of teenage Asian American girls. It is about how they blend into the melting pot that is America.
From the 1st two chapters I read so far, it not easy to go with the flow, so to speak. The first section, Orientation: Finding the Way Home, it is about trying to fit in in this mass of white, male dominant society. I mean, the teachers who taught the girls were mostly male and white. The history textbooks didn't contain not one item about Asian or women. It is unjust! One writer went back to her ancestral land where she learned that women were submissive, obedient.Their feet were bounded. Yes, this was in China. All women back thenwere concubines, servants, mistresses, etc. I've never felt this way cause I've got good Chinese role models from Hong Kong=I watched Chinese movies and sometimes serials. I like many different kinds of Chinese music, mostly from Hong Kong.
Also, wherever Asians go, even if they born here in America or even Canada, they looks are a dead giveaway that they don't belong. Some get called derogatory names. Some feel if they go back to their ancestral land, they feel like they belong. Boy, were they wrong! The way the Asian American girls act, but mostly it's the way they dress and talk in little or no knowledge or their native tongue. So if they don't belong in the States and if they don't belong in their ancestral land, then I guess they're in limbo. Living in San Francisco, there is a wide multicultural ethnicity, so I never ever feel like I don't belong. Maybe people do take advantage of me when I travel to China or Hong Kong? I remember I was pickpocketed once if my brother hadn't been there. As for me, all of best friends from my younger days were Caucasians, so I never felt out of place cause went to a multidiverisity school. A coupl/a of my friends were Asian Americans. Now, I've got nothing to say about this cause I've lost touch w/ them.
The next section, Family Ties, is about how different (American) Caucasian families relate differently to Asian families.All Asian families want is for their kids to succeed and all Caucasian families want their kids is more independence. Speaking from experience, my parents never show affection toward each other or toward us kids. Neither did my grandparents. I just assume it was just the Chinese culture. Whenever they kiss or say 'I love you' I just surprise me. They never see the good points ( like was any); they just point out my flaws. They just at me.I guess they were looking out for me, but sometimes I feel stifle by their protectiveness.
Dolly Rage: This section is about assimilating into America, but at what cost?
In elementary school, I always have a crush on the Caucasian boys-they were and still are- best friends. One was a brunette w/ brown eyes (obviously) and the other was blond and had blue eyes. I knew I had no chance w/ them 'cause they were Caucasians. And maybe it was 'cause I shy. Besides, my parents wanted me to settle down w. a nice Chinese boy. As I learned in this book that Chinese, no make that all Asians, are taught to be demure and shy, my parents wanted me to be more outgoing.I do like talking about myself sometimes. My parents wanted me to be more outgoing b/c I was extremely shy. All that aside, when I was younger, I wish I look like my Caucasian friends-tall, willowy, not to mention blond, maybe freckles. I mean, why didn't I get freckles? (Later on, I learned that only Irish or people of Irish descent get freckles.)
Finding My Voice: This section is about identity. Do you feel like you are Asian or American?
Here's my two cents: when I was growing up, my grandparents, esp. my grandmother, would raise us the Asian way along w/ my mother. My grandmother believed in Buddhism. She would burn paper w/ sacred words every Chinese New Year, and not before she blessed everybody in the family: for my parents that they would have a prosperous year for their business and for us kids that we would get goood grades in school. My dad called her superstitious.
Of course, there's also the meals she prepared during Chinese New Year and every special occasion like our birthdays. Make that every nite. Unlike some American meals filled with appetizting food. Chinese dinner usually has a bowl -or more if you're big eaters like my cousins. How boring and mundane. But American meals are fun!
On the other hand, when I go to school, I would have all these American interests. When we were little, my brother and I would like to watch all kinds of American sports, esp. baseball (Go Giants!), foootball (the undefeated Niners!), and of course my mom, who was a basketball star herself in school liked watching basketball (Yeah, Warriors).
I would also immersed myself in teen magazines (I've a subscription to 16) and pop culture since I'm not great a student (That's not saying much!) I would rather read fiction than study/ The only non-fiction I ever read was about the latest up-and-coming stars.
I've had this question from time to time when I was with my Caucasian friends. My parents, grandparents never did understood why I would put the posters of my favorite celebs up on the walls or who they were. I just said I like them. Whenever I talked with my brother in English, my grandparents didn't understand what I was saying since they're only fluent in Chinese Cantonese. I only spoke with my friends and brother in English and spoke to my grandparents and parents in Chinese. Nowadays, I speak to my parents in both Chinese and English. So which culture would you say I am? I would say a little of both. I never felt like I didn't belong althoug my parents did push me to make more Chinese friends. Maybe 'cause my brother have more Chinese friends?
Girlwind: Emerging Voices for Change: How can one person the world, make a difference? It's even harder if you're a woman or a person of color. I mean, will the majority even listen to you, never mind show respect to you?
Take a stand
Fight for a cause
you believe in
Never stop
Make a difference-
in the lives of someone or the world at large
Make a change
No one's gonna do it for you
You may be the minority of race or sex
But soon,
People will take notice
And you won't be the minority any longeroo-
You will overcome all obstacles
to become the majority!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Bitter Times
We've fallen on bitter, trying times.
People are being laid off left and right. Without money, they won't be able to feed their families. Their families'll go hungry (unless both parents work, but what if it's only a single-parent family?) If they don't have money, how'll they paid this month? Not only do they have to worry about the numerous mouths they need to feed, they also need to worry about their roof over their heads. Some people live from paycheck to paycheck, but without that paycheck, they're screwed. They just might end up homeless and hopeless. Homeless because they can't paid rent cause they don't have a job. Hopeless because in this hopeless, endlessly long recession, there is no way in chance that there will be any more jobs available in this economy.
This so-called recession might as well be called the Depression of the New Millennium because I think practically the whole world is affected by the recession created by the worst president in United States history, George Weasel Bush.
And what's worse, the holidays are coming up. I know, I know. Homeless are known to be mental ill are drug-addicts, but couldn't they just be poor? How can homeless feed their families, give gifts to their kids (if they have any). For some people, it won't be a happy holiday for them because they're homeless. I guess they'll have to depend on the kindness of strangers for help, but why don't peohelp the homeless year-round? They should help them year-round, not just around the holidays.
Peace
People are being laid off left and right. Without money, they won't be able to feed their families. Their families'll go hungry (unless both parents work, but what if it's only a single-parent family?) If they don't have money, how'll they paid this month? Not only do they have to worry about the numerous mouths they need to feed, they also need to worry about their roof over their heads. Some people live from paycheck to paycheck, but without that paycheck, they're screwed. They just might end up homeless and hopeless. Homeless because they can't paid rent cause they don't have a job. Hopeless because in this hopeless, endlessly long recession, there is no way in chance that there will be any more jobs available in this economy.
This so-called recession might as well be called the Depression of the New Millennium because I think practically the whole world is affected by the recession created by the worst president in United States history, George Weasel Bush.
And what's worse, the holidays are coming up. I know, I know. Homeless are known to be mental ill are drug-addicts, but couldn't they just be poor? How can homeless feed their families, give gifts to their kids (if they have any). For some people, it won't be a happy holiday for them because they're homeless. I guess they'll have to depend on the kindness of strangers for help, but why don't peohelp the homeless year-round? They should help them year-round, not just around the holidays.
Peace
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Far East Movement (FM)
Love ya guys!
Finally, at long last, an Asian hip-hop/pop boy band! (All music nowadays, I think, now has a tinged of hip-hop in it even though its mainstay is pop. An example is Enrique Iglesias' I Like It.) They make good house/club (dance) music. You know that song Like A G6, that's theirs. They're da bomb! Lovin' 'em more n' more as I learn more n' more about 'em. I'm not gonna give a whole complete bio of FM, but one thing I'll tell ya is they're from L.A. Probably being from L.A. give 'em the push they needed to get started in the music biz.
What's more, they're HOT! They're musically talented and also easy on the eyes.
Also, the guys are coming to SF on Oct 30 (yes, day b4 Halloween-I hope nothing bad befalls 'em!) for a concert at the Regency Ctr. Too bad it's sold out :( ! Oh, well. At least it's not too late to get their CD. It has just been released.
Later,
XOXO
Finally, at long last, an Asian hip-hop/pop boy band! (All music nowadays, I think, now has a tinged of hip-hop in it even though its mainstay is pop. An example is Enrique Iglesias' I Like It.) They make good house/club (dance) music. You know that song Like A G6, that's theirs. They're da bomb! Lovin' 'em more n' more as I learn more n' more about 'em. I'm not gonna give a whole complete bio of FM, but one thing I'll tell ya is they're from L.A. Probably being from L.A. give 'em the push they needed to get started in the music biz.
What's more, they're HOT! They're musically talented and also easy on the eyes.
Also, the guys are coming to SF on Oct 30 (yes, day b4 Halloween-I hope nothing bad befalls 'em!) for a concert at the Regency Ctr. Too bad it's sold out :( ! Oh, well. At least it's not too late to get their CD. It has just been released.
Later,
XOXO
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Dreams...
Don't let anyone get in the way of your dreams
Make it happen
Aspire to be the best you can possibly be no matter what
Let no one doubt you
You can attain your impossible dreams
even if it's most unlikely to happen
Reach for the most stellar of stars
Dream the impossible
and make it happen
with one snap of a finger (if you're poor lil rich gal)
or perseverance thru hard work n' drive
Make it happen
Aspire to be the best you can possibly be no matter what
Let no one doubt you
You can attain your impossible dreams
even if it's most unlikely to happen
Reach for the most stellar of stars
Dream the impossible
and make it happen
with one snap of a finger (if you're poor lil rich gal)
or perseverance thru hard work n' drive
Review: Smuin Ballet
Boy, did I get an eyeful the other nite at the Smuin Ballet!
Not only were they great dancers, they were great eye candy! Wish they were my arm candy!
But one thought ran thru me as I watched 'em dance, mostly modern dancc, those guys might be gay. I mean, guys were dancing w/ guys.
But I don't care 'bout that. Damn, they were gorgeous! They were -oh-so-fine! It also doesn't hurt that
that they were talented dancers!
Maybe I was ogling them? I can't help it; they were so hot! Great eye candy!
Not only were they great dancers, they were great eye candy! Wish they were my arm candy!
But one thought ran thru me as I watched 'em dance, mostly modern dancc, those guys might be gay. I mean, guys were dancing w/ guys.
But I don't care 'bout that. Damn, they were gorgeous! They were -oh-so-fine! It also doesn't hurt that
that they were talented dancers!
Maybe I was ogling them? I can't help it; they were so hot! Great eye candy!
Monday, October 4, 2010
SF Giants-NL West Champs!
It's been a long time coming since 2004 but they made it this far. They're so in the playoffs now! First the playoffs, then the championships, then who knows? Maybe the World Series!
But I have my doubts... Are they on some kind of steroids or something? Maybe they've became champs thru enduring hardwork, thru guts, blood and sweat. They won't be scandalized again like Barry Bonds was. They could become champs thru hardwork-enduring drive, perspiration is the key to success. Is it hard to believe that they became champs thru hardwork and not by using drugs. They came a long way, baby!
On Thursday, they take on the Oakland As. If I was a betting kind of gal, which I'm not, I would place my bets on the Giants. It's the battle of the bay. May the best team (Giants) win! I think they will win 'cause they're gonna play at AT&T, their home turf.
Go Giants! Bring it home, baby!
But I have my doubts... Are they on some kind of steroids or something? Maybe they've became champs thru enduring hardwork, thru guts, blood and sweat. They won't be scandalized again like Barry Bonds was. They could become champs thru hardwork-enduring drive, perspiration is the key to success. Is it hard to believe that they became champs thru hardwork and not by using drugs. They came a long way, baby!
On Thursday, they take on the Oakland As. If I was a betting kind of gal, which I'm not, I would place my bets on the Giants. It's the battle of the bay. May the best team (Giants) win! I think they will win 'cause they're gonna play at AT&T, their home turf.
Go Giants! Bring it home, baby!
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