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Chinese New Year Lanterns
Chinese New Year is just around the corner, and it is always great to decorate your home with nice little lanterns. Oriental Furniture offers a set of Chinese New Year Lanterns ($18.00 for a set of 12) that can be easily hung or strung up anywhere. The bold and bright colors of the lantern will constantly remind you of the holiday spirit and festivities. Cheers to a new Chinese year! Check out this product on our [...] Continue »
Help Fight Stereoptypes With Asian Crew Clothing
By Matthew I’m a member of Asian Crew Clothing, along with Hao-Kai Wu, Ryan Kwan, Kevin Han and Kevin Foo. I started this company because being Asian is cool. In history classes, Asian Pacific American history is overlooked, and hardly even discussed. Our ancestors who moved here from their homeland faced hatred and were subject to hurtful stereotypes. Somehow, they managed to work hard, earning minimal wage to make their children’s lives better. They instilled [...] Continue »
Woman In China Gives Birth To 15 Lb Baby
From the AP: “A mother in central China has given birth to a 15.52 pound (7.04 kilogram) baby, possibly the largest newborn on record since the country’s founding in 1949.” The baby was born via c-section and nothing out of the ordinary was reported about the pregnancy. Aside from the fact that the baby was 15 pounds. In other news, Asian babies rule!
Kisai Rogue KR2 LED Watch
When we were kids, we’d imagine how the future would be like. Sadly in 2012, flying cars and hoverboots haven’t happened yet, but we have the technology of LEDs. The future is now with this Kisai Rogue KR2 LED Watch ($128.00). Made by the folks at Tokyo Flash, it features sleek black stainless steel and a futuristic looking LED face. Its unique-looking layout may take some time to get use to but it’s a great [...] Continue »
Behind The Scenes With Team Janet & A Call To Help Janet Find Her Match
By Emily, My name is Emily and I am the Publicity and Media Director of Team Janet. After Janet was diagnosed with leukemia in 2009, she and her closest friends immediately set up a website to encourage people to register to be bone marrow donors and to promote awareness about the dearth of minority donors. I became involved by volunteering to help with registration drives in Northern California. After Janet went into remission in June [...] Continue »
Asian Americans Have Mixed Results In Retirement Study
ING recently published a new study on retirement readiness in different racial communities. Asian Americans had mixed results in the study. There are some positive results. Asian Americans overall had saved the most for retirement, $81,000 in an employee sponsored retirement plan (versus $69,000 for the population in general). Not surprising, Asian Americans are more likely to contribute to a employee sponsored retirement plan, with 81% saying they contribute (compared to 75% of the overall [...] Continue »
Handcrafted “Oswald” Wooden Sunglasses
The retro silhouette of the Wayfarer sunglasses has come back in style, but the signature black plastic is getting old fast. So get your hands on these handcrafted wooden shades (as shown, $145) by Shwood Eyewear. This Portland-based company uses sustainably-sourced premium materials like East Indian rosewood and Koa wood from Hawaii. Each pair comes with an engraved wool storage pouch to keep it safe from scratches and your choice of Carl Zeiss or polarized [...] Continue »
Jason Wu’s Target Collection Debuts With Super Bowl XLVI
By Joni This past Sunday, women (and some men, I suppose) all over the nation put their big game strategies in motion. Noooo, I’m not talking about football. Football is a walk in the park compared to what some people went through in order to score pieces from Jason Wu’s highly anticipated collection for Target stores. Wu, a high end fashion designer, created a 53 piece collection for Target which consists of fun dresses, skirts, [...] Continue »
Report Reveals APA Gay & Lesbian Organizations Only Receive 0.7% Of Available LGBT Funding
AAPIP’s Queer Justice Fund recently released the report Missed Opportunities: How Organized Philanthropy Can Help Meet the Needs of LGBTQ AAPI Communities. This report calls out the lack of LGBTQ Foundation funding to LGBTQ AAPI communities and highlights the need to fund AAPI ally organizations that engage in LGBT issues and autonomous LGBTQ AAPI organizations: “Missed Opportunities found that funding in 2009 to LGBTQ AAPI communities amounted to barely 0.7 percent of the total amounted [...] Continue »
What I Learned From Posting A Dragon Lady Personal Ad
I’ve always been curious what it would be like to be an Asian American woman on a dating website. So I decided to put up my own ad. But what kind of Asian American woman should I be? And then inspiration hit me: I should be a stereotype. But what kind of stereotype should I be? Geisha? Dragon lady? Both? I decided being a dragon lady would be more fun than being a geisha. And [...] Continue »
Hard Boiled Egg Mold for Bento Decoration
Bento boxes are a great way to “fun-up” mealtime. These cute little Hard Boiled Egg Molds ($2.80) by Kotobuki form and imprint hard boiled eggs into shapes like bunnies, bears, fishys, or “zoom zooms “ (aka “cars” for those of you who lost your imagination). The colorful apparatus looks similar to the Playdough molds, it’s colorful and plastic with a hinge. The process is simple. Boil an egg, then peel off the shell while it is [...] Continue »
Is Classical Music Alive For Long?
It has been said that playing an instrument as a child is the greatest predictor of concert attendance as an adult. I can relate because I started taking piano lessons when I was eight and I continued learning for 10 years. I took piano exams through the Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music almost every year and I was one exam away from obtaining my Diploma in Instrumental Teaching. I also performed in [...] Continue »
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