Charice Pempengco is a 19 year old singer and actress who is known for her beautiful voice and talent. She started her career in America at age 15 when her YouTube video went viral. Now, she’s known throughout Asia and America. Her father, Ricky Pempengco, at 40 years old, was killed earlier this Monday at a grocery store in San Pedro, Philippines by a drunk man. The drunk man got angry when Charice’s father brushed against him and the drunk man stabbed Charice’s father in the chest and back with an ice pick. Due to this unfortunate circumstance, Charice is canceling the rest of her tour dates so to return home to her family.
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On November 1, All Saints’ Day, it is a tradition for Filipinos to visit the graves of our relatives. The Wife and I went to see the graves of her parents who died last year. While we drove around the cemetery, we saw Filipinos cleaning graves, placing flowers in vases, and doing the Electric Slide. Wait, what? Continue Reading »
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The San Francisco mayoral election takes place next Tuesday, November 8th, and the local ABC 7 News affiliate has one-on-one television interviews with all the major candidates, with five out of the eleven candidates – Jeff Adachi, David Chiu, Ed Lee, Phil Ting and Leland Yee – being Asian American! Only in California. [EDITORS NOTE: Chinatown activist Wilma Pang, not featured in the video interviews, is also an official mayoral candidate.]
Do you wanna be the very best? That no one ever was? (Dun dun dun) To catch them is your real test, to train them is your cause? Then show your PokeSkill with this Pokeball iPhone Case ($18). The case is made of faux leather, and fits the iPhone 3, 4, and 4S as well as the iTouch and similar sized phones. Just don’t throw the case at a small animal to catch it–it won’t protect against hard drops.
San Francisco Asian Women’s Shelter has been nominated one of the Top 49 Favorite Charities in 7×7 Magazine. Help support their work in providing comprehensive services, including a 24-hour crisis line, shelter program, case management and access to health and legal services. With constant budget cuts, AWS needs all the support they can get. All you have to do is vote for #37 Asian Women’s Shelter – you can vote every day until Nov. 15th.
This is going to be a grassroots victory, and we need everyone’s support. With our small budget, the grant and exposure would do AWS wonders in building upon our programs, community building and direct services.
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We had bloggedabout Chinese anchor babies and maternity tourism earlier this March. This past Monday, on NBC’s premiere of their new 1-hour long news program, Rock Center, did a nine minute segment exploring this phenomenon.
Oh, the things that people will do for 48-member J-Pop group AKB48. From the Japan Times: “Hardcore fans who cough up ¥1,480 ($19) a month will be able to use the AKBaby app that allows them to see what kind of baby they might have in the extremely unlikely event that they got to impregnate their favorite pop idol.” AKB48′s members, by the way, have members as young as 15 years old.
Watching my wife give birth to my beautiful son, I was amazed and impressed by her strength and courage. This got me thinking about the whole submissive Asian woman stereotype – which if Yahoo! Answers is to be trusted, people in the world still believe. Here is an example of one such question: What makes Asian girls so submissive?
With all the recent news on Tiger moms and the even more recent discussion on Dragon moms, it should be no surprise that tiger moms and dragon moms crept into our internal author’s mailing list as well. During a recent email thread, where we hailed one of our own authors as a dragon-tiger mom, I managed to sidetrack us onto the topic of the symbolism in Chinese culture behind tigers and dragons. Most people are already familiar with the term Crouching Tiger / Hidden Dragon made popular by the movie with same title.
From Yahoo News: “TED, the nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, announces 25 new members of 2012′s TED Fellows class. Founded in 2009, the TED Fellows program handpicks world-changing innovators from around the globe and brings them to the TED stage — literally and figuratively — to raise international awareness of their remarkable work…” Among the notables are the following Jimmy Lin (US) — Computational geneticist and founder of the Rare Genomics Institute, E Roon Kang (Korea | US) — Graphic designer, Myshkin Ingawale (India) — Medical device innovator and founder of BIosense Technologies, Jane Chen (US | India) — Infant health entrepreneur, and co-founder of Embrace, Anthony Vipin Das (India) — Eye doctor + entrepreneur, Sey Min (Korea) — Media artist, and Asha de Vos (Sri Lanka) — Blue whale scientist.
We’re seen as overachievers and geeks but you can add a new name for Asian Americans to that list: bully victims. A recent study has revealed that Asian American students suffer the most bullying from their classmates and teachers in US schools.
The research…found that 54 percent of Asian American teenagers said they were bullied in the classroom, sharply above the 31.3 percent of whites who reported being picked on. The figure was 38.4 percent for African Americans and 34.3 percent for Hispanics, a government researcher involved in the data analysis told AFP. The disparity was even more striking for cyber-bullying.
I am currently addicted to Westerns the way I was addicted to Naruto and ninjas a few years back, and that includes Western TV series of course. The first one I started out with was the late 80′s Young Riders, and next I devoured the late 90′s Magnificent Seven. It was nice to see the progression from the 80′s western series of zero Asian American representation to the 90′s series where there was a whole episode dedicated to Chinese Americans. So when 8Asians community member nannaia told me about controversy over AMC’s new series premiering on November 6, Hell on Wheels, I was super excited to see a new Western TV show. I was also disappointed that in focusing on the mobile tent city following the construction of the transcontinental railroad, creator/producer Joe Gayton (in his words) has “excised” the Chinese from the story.
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