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PBS: American Masters – I. M. Pei: Building China Modern

By John | Thursday, April 1, 2010

Yesterday, I. M. Pei was profiled as he returned to China in order to design a modern museum to house the antiquities of Suzhou — where he grew up — in an episode of PBS’s series, American Masters. There are many of Pei’s designs I’ve seen in person, including the art museum at Cornell University and the Louvre Pyramid, but my all-time favorite design (probably of any modern building), is the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong – especially seeing it at night from the Hong Kong harbor.

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80s New Wave and Vietnamese Americans

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In yet another sign that I am WAY too old, the blog You Offend Me You Offend My Family writes about the 80s New Wave scene and how the Vietnamese American immigrants embraced it as their own. According to them, the music AND the fashion style is coming back. I still remember in my high school most of my Vietnamese and Chinese friends listening to the music, and having hair at least 6-8 inches off their forehead. Granted, their hairstyles were different from the Filipinos I knew who listened to more high energy, freestyle and hip hop and emulated the style and “hair bear” hairstyles. But I digress.

Personally, I’m waiting for the next great Asian American teen movie that is based in the late 80s/early 90s that features all the awesomeness of the fashion, the music, and the millions of cans of AquaNet that were used to keep everyone’s hair up–and which probably contributed to the depletion of the ozone layer. Of course, if someone does make this movie, I expect royalties for coming up with this. Mad royalties, bitches.

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Jasmine V: Justin Bieber’s New [Video] Girlfriend

By Dino-Ray | Thursday, April 1, 2010

Canadian import/Usher mentee, Justin Bieber is the latest woodland creature to come to us from the magical forest of pop stars. Complete with shaggier Zac Efron bangs and an angelically yet-to-hit-puberty voice, his song, “Baby” embeds itself in your head like a gummy worm burrowing itself into your head.

It’s painfully addictive. It’s so addictive that I learned to play it on the guitar and I must listen to it when I go on my morning run – but that’s beside the point.

The sassy love interest in the video is Jasmine V, a young Filipina-American pop sensation. And while confessing my obsession for the song at a recent family party, my brother-in-law’s cousin’s husband said, “That girl in the video is my niece!”

Now I can confidently tell people, “That girl in Justin Bieber’s “Baby” video is my brother-in-law’s cousin’s husband’s niece!”