Author Archives: Ernie

About Ernie

I'm the creator of 8 Asians and one of the editors. While I'm a regular blogger to the site as well, think of my role as Barbara Walters on "The View," except without the weird white hair. During the day, I'm a Developer for a major Internet company and live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I've also been writing in my blog, littleyellowdifferent.com, for seven years.

Asian American Representation on Both Sides of the Prop 8 Trial

The trial for California’s Proposition 8 is in full swing, and even though you can’t watch the taping right now, rest assured that there is a fair deal of Asian and Asian American representation on both sides. On one side, … Continue reading

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Avatar Pulled from 1,628 Chinese Movie Screens

LA Times is reporting that the Peoples Republic of China is replacing the popular movie Avatar on 1,826 movie screens, “made at the urging of propaganda officials who are concerned that Avatar is taking too much market share from Chinese … Continue reading

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From the Tumblr: Hangar Tea by Soon Mo Kang

The 8Asians tumblr highlights Asians [& uber talented non-Asians] who draw, dance, build, film, sing, write, invent, paint, teleport, and of course, tumble. It’s curated by Jun, Moye and Ernie.

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More Good Music: Tim Be Told

Every so often, we’ll get e-mails at 8Asians from artists and bands asking us to pimp their music, and every so often I agonize whether or not whether to blog about them, especially if their music sucks. (Note to those … Continue reading

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Ching Chong Beautiful: A Pretty Awful Name for a Flash Game

The indie video gaming scene has a lot of good things going for it compared to standard video game production — shorter and cheaper development times, and a greater variety of innovative practices. It can also make for some offensive … Continue reading

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USC Offers America 101 for Foreign Students

USC is offering an “America 101” course for its foreign students — a free, non-credit course for culture-shocked Chinese and Indian students on how to adapt to the strange world that is American culture as well as the stranger world … Continue reading

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How to Add Your Event to 8Asians

8Asians is committed to publicizing events that benefit both the Asian American and Asian Canadian community. In an effort to do this, while not making our editors rip their hair out, we started automating the events process so that an … Continue reading

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Frank H. Wu is Hastings Law School’s First Asian American Dean

The University of California Hastings College of the Law, the oldest law school west of the Mississippi, is getting Frank H. Wu as its first Asian American dean. According to the Chronicle, Wu changed his career plans from architecture to … Continue reading

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8Asians Turns Three Years Old Today! (Oh, and Merry Christmas)

Some time before the Christmas break three years ago, me and a couple of co-workers met up in the Yahoo! cafeteria and talked about possible side projects that everyone was working on. “I’m thinking about starting a multi-person blog about … Continue reading

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RIP, Brittany Murphy, the Ramen Girl

Brittany Murphy is dead at age 32 of cardiac arrest, and in tribute, I have promised myself that I would use the phrase “That’s way harsh, Ty” more in my personal vernacular. What does this have anything to do with … Continue reading

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Asian American Army Enrollment Up 80%

In Southern California, the amount of Asian Americans enlisting in the US Military are up by a staggering 80% compared to last year. Among the reasons for the spike in enrollment: military programs that offer college tuition — and for … Continue reading

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Manny Garcia’s GLEE Mash-Up

Oh, those kids and their YouTube: while older fogies like us are constantly lament how there are no visible Asian American entertainers on main stream radio or television, the newer generation is just creating new channels and forging their own … Continue reading

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