Yearly Archives: 2008

The Worst 60 Second Chinese Commercial You Will Ever Watch

Posted on March 6, 2008 by John

The Wall Street Journal reports today in “Ad’s Insult to Industry in China?” about a TV commercial by a local Chinese company had annoyed television viewing audiences. The Chinese television viewer is a much more sophisticated consumer these days, and … Continue reading →

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Ramiele Malubay Makes Me Feel Dirty, So Dirty

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Mike

When Ernie wrote about Ramiele Malubay, the 20-yo Filipina on this season’s American Idol, I thought, “Hey, she’s pretty damn talented! That’s a good voice!” Then I thought the same thing Brian thought: “That Ramiele is an absolute cutie. And … Continue reading →

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Story of a City: The Shanghai Restoration Project’s New Album

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Ernie

I first blogged about Dave Liang’s The Shanghai Restoration Project last May. Well, thanks to Arjan’s music blog ArjanWrites.com, a free MP3 of “Preface” is available for download from The Shanghai Restoration Project’s follow-up album, Story of a City. I … Continue reading →

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Duel Love: Soft porn on your DS!

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Efren

As most gamers know, there’s a lot of video games out there that basically parades as soft porn for guys, especially in Japan, where it’s fairly common to buy “video games” that consists of looking at big-breasted girls in various … Continue reading →

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In Ballet, Where are all the Asian swans?

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Jen

I saw the most amazing thing last weekend. At the San Francisco Ballet‘s Giselle at the War Memorial Opera House on a rainy evening a few days ago, I saw the Shanghai-born ballerina Yuan Yuan Tan dance the lead romantic … Continue reading →

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British-Asian brides faking virginity; Are we really living in the 21st Century?

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Bo

In this disturbing article from BBC News, British-Asian women (re: Indian-British) are desperately seeking methods to fake their virginity to conceal their sexual activity to their families and future husbands. Some simply lie while others use fake blood or even … Continue reading →

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Wilfred Wong, Cellarmaster at Beverages & More

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Efren

I’ve seen Wilfred Wong’s name plastered all over Beverages & More (otherwise known as BevMo! here in Cali) for his ratings of wines. Turns out he’s the cellarmaster for this company, and the Contra Costa Times did a profile on … Continue reading →

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Step Up 2 the Streets

Posted on March 3, 2008 by Lily Huang

You should only see dance movies for the dancing. But I think it’s also worthwhile to pay attention to who’s being cast where, as far as Asian, black, white, Latino go. Who gets which role, who is good, who is … Continue reading →

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San Jose: 2,500 voices call for ‘Little Saigon’

Posted on March 3, 2008 by John

As I had blogged about before, there has been quite a bit of controversy about a section of San Jose being officially designated by the city as “Saigon Business District” as opposed to “Litte Saigon.” San Jose has one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Observations, Politics | 6 Comments

Ni Hao, Kai Lan: The Mainstreaming of Chinese Culture

Posted on March 3, 2008 by John

In “The mainstreaming of Chinese culture, in a new kids’ TV show,” the Associated Press writes about Nick Jr.’s (as in Nickelodeon Jr.) new children’s animated show, “Ni Hao, Kai-lan“: “Ni Hao, Kai-lan” (nihao means hello in Mandarin) premiered Feb. … Continue reading →

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Canuck News: Sandra Oh hosts the Genie Awards

Posted on March 2, 2008 by Xxxtine

What are the Genie Awards you ask? Well, unless you’re a true foreign film addict, the Genie Awards are given to those whose made significant contributions to the Canadian film industry – the Canuck version of the Oscars, if you … Continue reading →

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Barack ‘Fauxbama’ ‘black enough’ on ‘SNL’?

Posted on March 2, 2008 by John

Last Saturday, Saturday Night Live’s Fred Armisen played presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama in the opening skit, in a faux CNN debate against Hillary Clinton, parodying the apparent favorable and fawning coverage by the press of Obama. Armisen’s racial background … Continue reading →

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