September 2011
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Vietnamese Language and Cultural Education...
Vietnamese Language and Cultural Education Discussion (Part 1) 9/24/2011 Roosevelt Middle School
Kỳ Võ, Hướng Việt Community Center
Lê Bích Yên, Hướng Việt Community Center
Hà Phan, San Jose Vietnamese American Lions Club / Sân Khấu Việt Cali Troupe
Bảo Thiên Ngô, CâyĐa Foundation
Huong Viet wants to expand its language and cultural learning activities to encompass theater, singing, and...
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The Last Bite →
It’s not often I recommend a BLOG, haha. But I can’t help but want to share the tastes of a electronica/house connoisseuse. She makes me dance in the morning, and I don’t usually wake up until afternoon!
The Last Bite is curated by Xuan “Vi” Nguyen, a 24-year-old hailing from Huntington Beach in Southern California. She was born in Malaysia, raised in Sydney, Australia, and then...
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Lily Bee coming to San Jose! →
Fri, Nov 18, 8:00 pm at Caffe Frascati, San Jose, CA! OMG yay! I <3 her music! I will have her sing at my wedding! LOL
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A Candle for Cindy Nguyen
I am reminded at times that San Jose is simultaneously a large city, but whose streets are filled with stories of personal connections: there are families and friends, neighbors and citizens, and leaders, all working to make the fabric of our San Jose community.
And over the weekend, an important piece of that community fabric was ripped away, like a bullet piercing through the fibers, Cindy...
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Unidentified body discovered during Michelle Le... →
Update: Coroner says remains are Michelle Le’s
emradio:
ALAMEDA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) — A body has been discovered in a remote portion of Alameda County that may be connected to the disappearance of Michelle Le. The body was discovered in a brushy, remote area near Sunol Saturday afternoon by a volunteer working with a search team organized by Le’s family. Alameda County investigators...
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Bill to Improve Data Collection for Asian and... →
SACRAMENTO – A bill that would require key state agencies to improve data collection for Asian American (AA) as well as Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHOPI) ethnicities passed the California State Legislature Thursday, moving one step closer to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk for consideration.
Assembly Bill (AB) 1088, introduced by Assemblymember Mike Eng (D-Monterey Park) and...
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Shots fired during search for shooting in San... →
SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose police searched an apartment complex Friday night for a gunman who shot a man while he was pumping gas that morning before carjacking a 52-year-old San Jose woman an hour later. … Family and friends of Cindy Nguyen, the woman who was car jacked, said she is still missing.
Update: Search notice for Cindy Nguyen posted Update: Woman’s body found in San...
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Santa Clara County Vietnamese Health Assessment...
This document provides an overview for what the youth-focused Vietnamese Health Assessment survey was being sent out earlier.
At the request of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and under oversight from the office of Supervisor Cortese, the Public Health Department (SCC PHD) is conducting a health assessment of the Santa Clara County Vietnamese community. A health assessment is a...
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Tumblr Staff: A large segment of custom domain... →
I didn’t have problems because of a solution I devised.
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A large segment of custom domain blogs experienced an outage earlier this afternoon with roughly 3.5 hours of intermittent availability.
The interruption stemmed from an issue in the way this blog traffic gets load balanced (distributed across our servers). This system has been undergoing a…
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Web App: Grapevine, a group walkie talkie service →
Grapevine gives groups of people a place to get together and talk. Like, voice talk. But it records your messages, so it feels kinda like a walkie talkie, the voice equivalent of group chat windows on instant messaging. But it’s accessible by multiple people. I guess it’s for those who are always on the go or are busy (like me) but want to be able to hear the voice of their friends. If...
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Portrait of Vietnamese Americans By Census 2010 →
The official documentation of the Census 2010, which has been released, suggests that a Vietnamese community that is dynamic, younger than the national average, and the fourth largest among Asian immigrants in the United States. Although the population growth rate of Vietnamese origin is slower in 10 years, our community “which speaks Vietnamese at home” is higher than the other races. In...
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Vietnamese community health assessment for Santa...
The Santa Clara County Public Health Department in conducting a health assessment of the Vietnamese community in the county. As part of the assessment, they are collecting information from Vietnamese young adults aged 18 to 25 via an online survey. The survey asks questions about health and health behaviors and takes less than 10 minutes to complete. We would appreciate your help in sending out...
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The Vietnamese American Challenge + 7 Weeks
Every single day I have to remind myself of my goal. I haven’t yet traced the full blueprint/roadmap, but building a community center has a certain process to go about it, I’m sure.
Is there a need? How is having a center going to be used to resolve needs in the community? What are the strategic steps in meeting these needs?
My mentor, anh Nam from VietAID, told me that what the...
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patrickvswild: Do people not understand the... →
Actually đụ má and đụ má mày are grammatically correct in Vietnamese. Đụ mẹ mày is also used, as má is Northern-variety of Vietnamese and mẹ is Southern-variety.
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Ma is mom and may is you.
When you say du ma, you are not saying fuck you: you’re saying fuck mom or literally mom fuck. LOL Even Vietnamese people get this wrong. Losers.
Du ma may is fuck your mom (which may also...
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WatchQuite possibly the coolest HTML5-based WordPress framework. PressWork has a drag-and-drop frontend GUI!
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2011 Advancing Justice Conference →
Looks like I’m planning on attending this conference in San Francisco on October 27 to 28, or at least one section of it, rather than the entire weekend. I was recommended to go to advocate the Vietnamese American community voice, which I was told was almost missing from the network. If there were Vietnamese, they were more likely to represent pan-Asian Pacific American organizations. In my...
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diaCRITICS 2.0: Vietnamese homeland and diaspora... →
Diaspora Vietnamese Artist Network runs the diaCRITICS blog, which just recently underwent artistic revival. The blog covers all things Vietnamese arts & culture, homeland and diaspora.
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“If you can’t accept and be comfortable about your own ethnic identity,...”
– Collective conversational wisdom among dì 7, Quyên Mai, and bảo.thiên.ngô
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Using Freebase to Hold Vietnamese American... →
Today I started dabbling with Freebase and created a list of Vietnamese Americans. I’m sure there are more than 20 currently listed, but it means someone has to go in and update the entries for each and every person to include “Vietnamese American” as their ethnicity. This seems to be better than using Google Moderator (for sure) to contain my list of inspirational Vietnamese...
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Arrest made in Michelle Le case →
An arrest has been made in the slaying of nursing student Michelle Le, more than three months after she vanished from a Hayward parking garage, police said today.
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DigiFest online film festival →
Oooh, All About Dad, Owl & Sparrow, Green Dragon. Three films about Vietnamese. Warrants having a group screening with homemade popcorn. :-)
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Free #aapi films - so cool!
Neat idea. They should do more online film festivals for the less privileged locations :]
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Proposed Vietnamese Phonetic Alphabet
Spell “Knights Bridge Court” to a Vietnamese senior person over the phone, while their understanding of the English alphabet is almost nonexistent.
I posed a question regarding the existence of a phonetic alphabet for the Vietnamese language in the same way that English uses the NATO alphabet, e.g. A = alpha, B = bravo, etc. Anh-Minh Do from Saigon put up a list for me, but I found...
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mekalika: I'm Reading Truyện Kiều
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bỉ sắc tư phong
Literal: Who is rich in this is poor in that. Chinese: 彼嗇斯豐 Vietnamese folk equivalent: Được cái này mất cái kia.
Mom: I don’t know how to translate it. It’s just some Chinese saying that I’ve only ever read in this poem xP (Every Vietnamese person knows the first few lines of this poem by heart)
It’s a kind of yin-yang (Vietnamese: âm dương) view on life....
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My Random Moments: Never Good Enough →
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No matter what, I am good enough for you. I do my best, I really do. I try not to complain and do whatever you want me to do.
But mom and dad, you just can’t seem to understand me.
I graduated from high school and am attending one of the best public universities in Colorado. I stayed in state as…
Fly butterfly fly! Fly butterfly fly! Monarchs a thousand miles wide Make your...
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Idea: Online Karaoke and Video Chat
My friend TD was up this morning singing to some Vietnamese songs. I’d join her, but the problem is that there’s no way to synchronize the music and lyrics when she lives in Idaho, and I live in California.
There’s plenty of online karaoke services out there. A good example is KaraFun, with a really nice and clean interface.
But the real challenge is, can we do karaoke with...
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Resist Like a Swamp Morning Glory →
Holy smokes, you’d never would think Gilroy grew rau muống. BTW, clever pun on rau muống and rau muốn (the vegetable you want more of). Hahaha. I am reminded of a television story that covered the demise of the European honey bees in California, crucial for pollinating fruit-bearing flora, being pushed out by Africanized bees, which were depicted as unproductive to agriculture, aggressive,...
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Vietnamese-American Politics and Redistricting →
Unless there are serious legal challenges, the redistricting map will be set for the next 10 years as finalized by The California Citizens Redistricting Commission for Santa Clara County and Orange County. At first glance, there are many opportunities for Vietnamese-American candidates to be in a favorable position to run for offices at city, county, congressional and assembly levels. So at least...
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My Vietnamese American Health Advisors
Last month I posted a team of folks who were active in the web application development space. They are, informally, my technology advisors, leaders who resolve to solve a unique problem using technology as a means.
Today I’d like to announce my health advisors, those who I trust to help me shape my health policy platform for the Vietnamese American community.
Tina Duong, pre-medical...
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Former Googlers Launch Yatown, a New Local Social... →
Available today in 192 thousand neighborhoods across America, Yatown is bringing communities closer together by re-acquainting neighbors in providing a single, well known place for users to go and immediately “see” one another in an online “townsquare.”
“Yatown was born out of our own frustration in connecting to our neighborhoods online. We had to locate obscure mailing lists or antiquated and...
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WatchMy aunt brought us blueberries. My uncle brought us pears. My mom bought a crate of mangoes. I didn’t think there was a blueberry-pear-mango smoothie recipe. But lo and behold, I managed to find such a recipe. Gotta love the internet.
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