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Posted 1 year ago
It was my second semester, freshman year in college, and the Asian Pacific American community was buzzing about a movie being shown at a theater off campus. I went to school in the middle of nowhere, so car pools were assigned and we went en masse to see this movie I had heard little about. A couple years later, they screened the movie on campus and several of the stars were there in person. I...
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Posted by: 1 year ago
This past Tuesday President Obama delivered his annual State of the Union address, and as I said on Facebook, watching it doesn't mean you're old – it means you're informed. Since when was listening to the leader of the free world address your country something to be ashamed of? Anyway, the...
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Posted 1 year ago
Maybe you’ve seen the images all over Facebook already, but the Philippines Department of Tourism’s (DOT) campaign that launched the first week of 2012 isn’t entirely new. In 1951, Switzerland launched a similar campaign. However, what Switzerland didn’t have sixty years ago was...
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Posted 1 year ago
Couple things to touch on before I write the post I had planned on writing. First – about that viral video of that Asian Chicagoan getting beat up by seven or so other people. Yes, it was very difficult and disgusting to watch, but the truth is such things happen daily on the...
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Posted 1 year ago
I am a frequenter of the social news website Reddit, one of the largest sites that gets over eight million visitors a month. The site provides a list of articles and content that is entirely user-submitted; sometimes you'll find a link to a funny picture or comic, or to breaking news, or even a celebrity answering user's questions. Fair warning: do not visit Reddit if you need to get...
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Posted 1 year ago
Anyone catch that little news gem that happened late last year? An RA at UC Irvine went to Chick-fil-A, ordered, but the cashier didn't take their names. Instead, they took it upon themselves to name the customers “Ching” and “Chong”. Yes, this crap was happening even...
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Posted 1 year ago
...call it a runback.
So I started blogging back in high school, slacked off a bit in college, went hard right after college (keeping up a good rate of five articles a week), then joined BakitWhy.com and slacked off again. It's not that I didn't like writing for BW, it was just that I went from blogging my thoughts to writing expository pieces that required research and a certain...
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Posted by: 1 year ago
Last month, Pilipino-managed group OISHI Media released a music video featuring San Diego native Krystle Cruz, "Fall Out of Love", off of her latest album "Underneath Me":
In less than five minutes, Krystle takes the viewer on a journey through the middle, end, and aftermath of a modern day relationship. Unlike her last video, the upbeat and dance-filled "Eternity... Pages
