Posts by Connie
Although Connie Chung shares a famous journalist's name, she wants to forge an original path of her own. An aspiring world traveler, she has backpacked through Ecuador, campaigned in the Netherlands and served as a student ambassador in South Korea. Aside from majoring in Peace and Conflict Studies, Connie recently directed "The Vagina Monologues" at UC Berkeley. As a graduating senior, she is currently seeking employment..after learning how to harvest grapes in Australia and surfing in New Zealand this summer, that is. Explore the world of wonders with Connie at www.seeconrun.blogspot.com.
Help SF Asian Women’s Shelter win $10,000
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. [...] Continue »
Thoughts on Eyelid Surgery, Thoughts as a Filmmaker: Beautiful Sisters
[Editors note: Connie's post about her experiences as an attendee and a filmmaker have already been blogged about, but after finding the documentary on YouTube, I felt it appropriate to repost her experiences as a filmmaker, but this time with the documentary embedded. Thanks to Connie for her permission.] To have my film Beautiful Sisters be part of The 32nd Annual Asian American Film Festival was an honor. It was also extremely nerve wracking. I [...] Continue »
Thoughts as an Audience Member: The 32nd Annual Asian American International Film Festival
This weekend I was reminded of why I want to continue making films. Watching Witness to Hiroshima in the Museum of Chinese in America, I sat in silence and in awe. Through watercolor paintings, former Japanese soldier Keiji Tsuchiya recounts his experience of providing relief after the 1945 U.S. bombing. He illustrates the colors of radiation and tells of the monotony, frustration and anger of burying thousands of bodies. In what seems out of place, [...] Continue »
Turn a $10 Donation Into $10,000 For Underprivileged API Youth with OASES
My friend works for OASES (Oakland Asian Students Educational Services), a non-profit org geared towards empowering youth who have limited resources, particularly those in the Asian and Pacific Islander communities of Oakland through providing educational services and social support. Help support their 1-week fundraising drive which ends this Tuesday. OASES is out to win the Razoo March Goodness Contest, where you can donate to OASES and help secure a $10,000 grant for their youth. With [...] Continue »
International Secret Agents
If International Secret Agents was a representation of Asian American artists, we’ve got a long way to go.
The Vigorous Mind Book Review
My palette’s got quite the eccentric pairing of taste buds. You would think I would do well at a buffet with the wide variety of selection—the salad bar, the burrito bar, the rotisserie, the “unknown,” and my favorite, the non-fat yogurt machine. I’d be able to taste a little of everything and leave satisfied having gotten the most bang for my buck. But in fact, I would just overstuff myself, and perhaps feel overwhelmed with [...] Continue »
Blog Tour: Christine Son’s “Off the Menu”
I love “chick-lit,” also known as fiction written for and targeted to young, working women in their twenties and thirties. I must say, it’s about time chick-lit is written by and for Asian American women, and Christine Son’s Off the Menu does just that. Intertwining the lives of three best friends — Hercules Huang, Whitney Lee and Audrey Henley, Son paints a picture of three very distinguished lives, careers and passions, and the friendship that [...] Continue »
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