Sometimes, it seems like the last time we used a pencil was in high school. Maybe that’s for the better, now that there are so many cute Iwako erasers, like this Zoo Animals Set ($5.54). Featuring seven take-apart erasers in the shape of a pig, panda, cow, giraffe, horse, elephant, and koala, you’ll never want to make a pencil mistake again. It might be un-panda-bear-able to even think of using these erasers for their intended purpose.
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With the delayed NBA season to start this Christmas, NBA teams have begun to re-shuffle their rosters in preparation for the shortened season. Unfortunately, this includes the San Francisco Bay Area’s Golden State Warriors waiving Jeremy Lin for their team roster:
Lin’s release from the team is no big surprise. Despite the short-handed roster at camp, affordable contract, and great support from the local fan community, Lin’s release is directly related to the teams efforts to sign Los Angeles Clippers restricted free agent center DeAndre Jordan or any other free agent names connected to the Warriors this offseason. Set to make nearly $800,000 had he stayed on the roster, every little bit of money will count if the Warriors do sign Jordan, Nene, or another major free agent.
Can you imagine being set to make $800k and then being let go during the first week of practice? Lin appeared in 29 games last season (his first) averaging 2.9 points, 1.2 rebounds, and 1.4 assists a game. Lin also played briefly on the Warriors’ D-League affiliate Reno Big Horns where he averaged 18 points, 5.8 rebounds, and 4.3 assists in 20 games.
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Some say that 2011 is the year of the Tiger Mom but I’m beginning to believe that this is the year of Asian Americans in libraries. First we had the whole Alexandra Wallace debacle and then the whole Asians Sleeping In The Library tumblr and now this: an Asian American woman at CSUN “freaking out” in the library due to inconsiderate students during finals week.
Also, the definition of “freaking out” has also been changed to mean “whispering loudly and dramatically in a library.” Either it was a slow day for the Internet or the world’s standards for Asian Americans showing any form of emotion are a lot lower than I expected.
Happy Holidays, everyone! It’s December, so even though many of us aren’t Christian or don’t celebrate Christmas, it is the season of giving. And everyone likes presents and free stuff, right?
So get ready for 8Asians’ twist on the 12 Days of Christmas– our “8Days of Giveaways” Celebration– featuring giveaways from our many generous friends from around the web! You’ll have to keep checking back to our site to see what you can win, but here’s one hint: many of the things we’ll be giving away have been featured on our shopping blog, GASP!
We’ll be featuring daily giveaways starting today through December 21 (that’s 8 days, not counting weekends, thankyouverymuch), so keep checking back to 8Asians (or follow us on Twitter and Facebook) to see the latest goodies!
If you have something to giveaway that you think our 8Asians readers will enjoy, drop me a brief note.
Thanks to our 2011 celebration participants:
- Asian Crew Clothing courtesy of Asian Crew Inc.
- Custom @ Symbol Twitter Necklace from Blend Creations courtesy of Blend Creations
- 5-Pack of Assorted Greeting Cards from OfftheBoatGreetings.com courtesy of Off the Boat Greetings
- Pequitobun Jewelry courtesy of Pequitobun
- ‘How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe’ by Charles Yu courtesy of Charles Yu
- Autographed copy of Mree “Grow” CD courtesy of Mree
- Akufuncture Gear courtesy of Akufuncture
- Pair of Snakebyte Controllers courtesy of Snakebyte USA
- Good Asian Driver T-shirt by Blacklava courtesy of Blacklava.net
- Aziatix “Nocturnal” CD courtesy of ECHOforward
- TC Charton Asian Fit Eyewear Sunglasses courtesy of TC Charton Asian Fit Eyewear
- 8Asians’ NINJA WINS T-shirt by Blacklava courtesy of 8Asians.com
(Sorry, but we will not be giving away 8 Maids-a-Milking.)
“The Asian Pacific American Media Coalition (APAMC) has released its 2011 report cards grading the networks’ past 2010-2011 season while simultaneously challenging ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC to cast at least one Asian Pacific American actor as the main star in a TV show within the next three years.” NBC scored highest with a B (we’ll casually glance over the cancellation of Outsourced) while CBS earned a B-, ABC earned a C+ and Fox fell from a C+ to a C-.
I heard on the radio a few days ago a brief interview on NPR with Awonder Liang and his father Yingming “Will” Liang. Awonder recently won the under-8 division at the Youth World Chess Championship, which was held in Brazil this year. After some further research, Liang wasn’t the only American who “medaled” or placed:
In the under-10 section, Ruifeng Li of Texas took the silver, also on tie-breakers. And in the girls’ under-14 group, Sarah Chiang, another Texan, narrowly missed out on the bronze medal when she tied for third. But under the tie-breaker scoring system, she finished fourth.
I guess Asian Americans are good at chess as they are in math? LOL. To be honest, I played chess in high school and in fact was team captain. I forgot how I got into chess, but do remember having a chess board as a kid. But my parents never pushed my brother and I to play. But my middle school friend’s brother was a true chess master type and recruited me to play in high school, and that is how I got involved in chess club and the team.
Via PR Newswire: “The longer Asian Pacific American (APA) employees live in the United States, the less favorably they view their companies, an annual Asia Society survey found. The 2011 Asian Pacific Americans Corporate Survey indicates that this decline starts after about 10 years and is most apparent amongst APA employees who have lived in the US 20+ years or who are US-born….With the APA population growing faster than any other ethnic group, except for Hispanics, the disengagement suggested by the data will fast become an even larger issue.”
If you’re familiar with the controversial children’s book, And Tango Makes Three, the idea of “gay” penguins raising a baby penguin isn’t surprising. And Tango Makes Three was based on the real-life story of two male chinstrap penguins at the New York Central Park Zoo, who became loving partners, and were eventually given a their own egg (one that was abandoned by another penguin couple) to hatch and raise. Two new African male penguins in China are now making the headlines, with their story of raising a baby penguin as well.
In the world of trendy food, there were cupcakes. And then there were cake pops. And now you can make your own decorated frozen pops at home with this Zoku Single Pop Maker ($24.95). Their blog gives you all the recipes for pops you could want, including mimosa pops and chocolate pops.
The fifth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary (the first new edition in ten years) included a definition for “anchor baby,” which brought immediate criticism from immigrant communities, for not also labeling it as an offensive term.
A child born to a noncitizen mother in a country that grants automatic citizenship to children born on its soil, especially such a child born to parents seeking to secure eventual citizenship for themselves and often other members of their family.
Immigration Impact was among the first critics, with a blog post, referring to the term as having a “poisonous and derogatory nature.”
It has not been easy for my Taiwanese family and my Chinese in-laws to understand each other. That is a gross understatement and for now we’ll leave it at that and table the wildly contentious, high-tension stories for another time. While I was aware of the cultural, political, and social differences that left a gap between the two families, I in part hoped it was particular to our personal predicament. Yet I’ve encountered many echoes of similar conflicts when Chinese and Taiwanese families merge that I thought it warranted its own focused consideration.
I was watching Nightline the other night, and for some reason, they decided to do a segment on “pick up artists,” specifically Simple Pickup, a group of three mid-twenty-something-looking , Jason, Jesse and Kong – maybe because their videos have become a YouTube sensation, with over 10 million views since February of this year. I was pleasantly surprised to see Kong and Jesse representing.
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