February 2012
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Oh...Uh huh.: Jeremy Lin, look what you started →
For the record, fortune cookies are an American invention and is part of Asian American history.
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Ben & Jerry’s made a Jeremy Lin ice cream which was made of frozen yogurt, lychee honey swirls, and bits of fortune cookies. And oh man, was there an uproar of angry Asians!
My Perspective on Ignorance
For the record, I am an Asian American. I grew up in a small town in good ol’ US...
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Vietnamese American Films at SFAAIFF30
This year’s crop of films that cover the Vietnamese American experience at the San Francisco Asian American International Film Festival 2012.
TOUCH
Minh Duc Nguyen / USA / 2011 / 109 min / San Francisco Premiere
An unexpected friendship between a Vietnamese American manicurist and a mechanic threatens to turn into something more in this sensual, soulful film on the importance of human...
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“Thư❤ng nhiều quá! (Vietnamese)
Thư❤ng you muah! (Vietlish)”
My Little Life Milestones 2011–2012
Always take the time to reflect on what you’ve been able to achieve every year since you were born. And then be thankful that you managed to pull it off. For 2011–2012, I managed to accomplish things that I could be proud of looking back:
Start this Tumblr in July last year and post ~225 entries so far, with 5,168 visits, 3,367 unique visitors, and 10,829 page views. I hope my thoughtful...
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WatchInteresting, so she works in San Francisco now.
surnameviet:
Technologist and CEO of Emotiv Lifescience Tan Le on her immigration story:
“If there is a sinew in our family, it runs through the women. Given who we were and how life had shaped us, we can now see that the men that might have came into our lives would have thwarted us, defeat would have come too easily. Now I would like to have...
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The Fields of Gold That Once Lined My Neighborhood
When Toyota announced its decision to close its Fremont Nummi plant back in 2009, this caused a great deal of concern for the local workers, residents, and all the stakeholders of that industry. It provided jobs for 4,700, and many smaller businesses, such as suppliers and repair shops, depended on Nummi being operational for their living. Luckily Tesla Motors took over Nummi (now called the Tesla...
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Top Health Concerns for San Jose’s Vietnamese... →
As far as Liver cancer is concerned, a Hep B Free Campaign is kicking off on March 9. Although the advisory committee of community leaders who helped with the Vietnamese health assessment report proposed a Vietnamese Health Task Force, my inquiry with Dave Cortese’s office suggested that no such organizing is taking place. I’m hoping the Heb B Free Campaign is a chance to seed such an...
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Immigrant Workers At SF Restaurant Awarded $316K... →
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – A group of immigrants who worked at a Vietnamese restaurant in San Francisco’s Richmond District have been awarded more than $300,000 in a major wage theft case.
Luong Vuong was a waiter for more than a year at the Pho Clement restaurant. He said through a translator on Wednesday that he came forward in August after working 12.5 hour days, 6 to 7 days a week without tips or...
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“In 2011, more than 2 in 3 Vietnamese young adults who participated in an online...”
– Santa Clara County Public Health Department, 2011 Vietnamese Young Adult Online Survey
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WatchWomen of color in science & medicine rock!
TED Talks: Quyen Nguyen on Color-coded surgery
Dr. Quyen Nguyen’s research (working with Roger Tsien, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) is focused on the development of fluorescently labeled probes for molecular navigation during surgery. Their first collaborative effort yielded a “smart” probe that makes tumors margins fluoresce, or “glow” and thus...
CayDa Foundation: Vietnamese American... →
caydafoundation:
This is a project by a Viet professor at HEC Montreal University, Canada to study Vietnamese business and entrepreneurial behavior. We are focusing on Viet American businesses for this survey.
By studying Vietnamese American business management style and entrepreneurial behavior, this study seeks…
CayDa Foundation: First National Conference on... →
caydafoundation:
Calling for all interested mental health & human services professionals interested in/ working with the API (esp. the Vietnamese-American) population to stay tune for the 1st National Conference on Vietnamese-American and API mental health services, treatment approaches and current issues. The…
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Vietnamese American English Singer-Songwriters →
Here is my feeble attempt to put together a sample of Vietnamese American English Singer-Songwriters on YouTube. I know there are a few that I once found that I no longer remember their name, because they exist under band names, so it makes them hard to find.
When Jøna Nguyen asked me about artists I could recommend for the UNAVSA Conference he’s helping with, I braindumped all the names I...
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I Didn't Know I Was Vietnamese
My cousin posted this on his Facebook the other day:
Being a senior this year makes me regret not ever maintaining a Vietnamese identity and keep a steady vocabulary of Vietnamese words or staying in Vietnamese school. I will have nothing of my cultural identity to pass onto and of my children if I ever had children. If I had kids, what would I tell them? That I was white-washed? People see me,...
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We're Not the First Vietnamese American Yearbook
My fellow CayDa board member, Quyen, wants to say we’re going to produce the first Vietnamese American yearbook. Ignorance can sometimes be a license to boast. Unfortunately, I tell him, we are not the first. As I am respectful of my predecessors and what they’ve done, I am going to clarify, at least, who came before us.
In April 2000, a publication called 25 Vietnamese Americans in...
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VIET 211 Information Referral Service
CayDa Foundation just launched San Jose’s VIET 211 information referral phone service as a pilot program. We’ve gotten a good number of calls and are recording cases as they come in. How do you solve a problem of connecting Vietnamese folks who need help but have a lousy luck with Google/Yahoo/Bing, social service providers who don’t know how to market their services in...
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Khai Thu Nguyen →
Khai Thu Nguyen received her PhD in the Program in Performance Studies at University of California, Berkeley, and is the James R. Gray Lecturer in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. She has been supported by Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad and the UC Pacific-Rim Research Program Fellowships for research on Vietnamese theatre.
Another Midsummer Night’s...
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WatchAnother Midsummer Night’s Dream, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, by Khai Thu Nguyen, a Ph.D. of UC Berkeley, performed in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2009. The play is performed in the Hát Bội theater style.
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WatchItalian American rendition of Hansel & Gretel performed before elementary school children with piano accompaniment. It got me thinking; my cousin Ngô Khả Tú is fairly renowned as a local traditional Vietnamese theater performer (and no, I’m not just saying that because she’s family), but whereas a public school will invest in bringing Opera San Jose out, I don’t think my...
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Thinking About Vietnamese Theater Festival
It’s interesting that there are Shakespeare festivals in nearly every state and probably every major city in the United States. After all, Shakespeare is one of the most brilliant and prolific playwrights in history.
But then I thought about Vietnamese literary and folklore and felt like we didn’t have that kind of tradition in the way that Shakespeare’s work enjoys. Sure we...
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A Rare Vietnamese Love Story That Don't End in...
http://vietnamese.wikia.com/wiki/Huyền_Trân
Trần Huyền Trân (1289–?) was a princess during the Trần Dynasty of Đại Việt. She was the daughter of Emperor Trần Nhân Tông and the younger sister of Emperor Trần Anh Tông. In 1306, Emperor Trần Anh Tông married her off to the Champa King Jaya Sinhavarman III, where she became Queen Paramecvariin of Champa, in exchange for the two provinces of Ô and...
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Northern California Vietnamese Community Yearbook
In partnership with Thằng Mõ Media, CayDa Foundation will be compiling an annual yearbook of Northern California community organizations whose primary mission is to work within the Vietnamese community. The usefulness of this yearbook is to help all organizations and public agencies coordinate activities more effectively, especially to see which groups are still active.
We expect to have the...
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Vietnamese Blogs and Zines
I created a Google Reader Bundle of Vietnamese Blogs and Zines (in English). Nice to stay up to date on what’s current.
25 HAWKINS ROAD
charvey in Vietnam
diaCRITICS
Little Saigon Inside
NGUJ
Saigon Creative
saigon today
SaigonNezumi
Stickyrice
The Final Word
The Global Viet Diaspora
UNAVSA
Vietnam New Media Business
Vietnam Talking Points
Vietnamese God
VNLP
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Web App Brief: Jackfroot.com Top 100 Songs
Jackfroot.com’s mission is to cover Asian American entertainment. In thinking about creating consumable content, I’ve got a hunch that a Top 100 songs list would be very useful, much in the way that Billboard.com Hot 100 works. But, as Kobe Bryant said to the press in light of Jeremy Lin beating Kobe on points made in a single game of basketball in February 2012, “Players don’t usually...
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I woke up from my nap with an idea for a film: a modern-day Robin Hood protagonist who manipulates competing hedge fund firms into losing their money into businesses owned by the 99%. Ironically, if such a film was produced, it’d probably be produced by the Hollywood machinery.
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BaoHouse YouTube Channel and Playlists
Guess I felt compelled to make my YouTube channel somehow useful. So I created playlists for the following categories:
Original music by Asian Pacific American musicians
Most popular Vietnamese music videos of all time
Vietnamese Student Association produced videos
Figuring out a good way to manage the videos that should go into these playlists will be an ongoing adjustment. For the most...
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Some U.S. Volunteer Statistics
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Corporation for National & Community Service:
26.3% of the U.S. population volunteer (Oct 2009 to Sept 2010), or 62.8 million people, contributing 8.1 billion hours of service valued at $173 billion.
29.3% of women volunteer, while 23.2% of men volunteer. The gap between the sexes is consistent, with a higher proportion of women volunteering,...
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Building The 25-Organization Village
I reorganized CayDa’s Resources page, which includes the now-published directory of Vietnamese-impacting 501(c) organizations in Northern California. I meticulously researched and compiled every profile for all 165 organizations using GuideStar Nonprofit Reports and IRS Publication 78. Sorry to the rest of America; it would take forever for me to finish one for the whole country.
Compiling...
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Racial Slur Database →
baohouse comment: Slurs will always exist as long as people know how to hate each other.
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Volunteer Chicken and the Egg Problem in the...
So the other week, I posted that my friend Mary was looking for volunteer opportunities within the Vietnamese community. So I posted a letter to the various local Vietnamese nonprofits I knew and I got my first response:
“…the main problem is that most of Vietnamese American nonprofit organizations are lacking of staffs, let alone a volunteer coordinator.”
My personal...
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SASC Anthology Invites You – 2012 Anthology... →
thegreenpapaya:
This is an image of SASC Anthology’s first chatbook: Memories In Translation (2010)
— Hello beautiful community!
Are you interested in demonstrating your creative side? Would you like to help us explore what it means to be a Southeast Asian?
The UC Berkeley Southeast Asian Student Coalition (SASC) Anthology Committee would like to invite writers, poets, artists and anyone...
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From Gandhi to Joe DiMaggio to Mother Teresa to...
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Yesterday I woke up with a song in my head. I...
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How I Came to Love Vietnamese Folklore
I was adding a new article on Trọng Thủy and Mỵ Châu, the Vietnamese Romeo & Juliet. It is perhaps one of the most researched topics I’ve been doing the past few months because I’m developing a stage screenplay for it. It really was the story that inspired my love for learning more about Vietnamese stories, and even propelled me in embarking on a lifelong pursuit of graphic design....
