March 2012
20 posts
2 tags
I'll be attending a report release event on Asian...
I’m at attending this event on behalf of CayDa Foundation to ascertain how Asian American communities participate in philanthropy. I’m very interested to see if Vietnamese Americans (and by extension foreign-born Asian Americans) have different giving patterns than native-born ones.
Please join AAPIP for a special program and reception for release of the report
Emerging...
2 tags
I'll be attending a Silicon Valley poverty forum
Did you know that from the 2010 Census, 12.2% of Vietnamese American families living in Santa Clara County are living in poverty, compared to 7% of the county’s total families? I will be representing CayDa Foundation in attending this forum to advocate for the Vietnamese American community on this disparity. To meet a parity of 7% for the county, we would have to uplift 1600 Vietnamese...
4 tags
Cooking School Spreads Immigrants' Skills And... →
If you want to learn how to make Vietnamese egg rolls, you can always check out a cookbook, a food blog, or perhaps a site like Epicurious.
But Linh Nguyen — who is teaching a cooking class here in San Francisco — says that that’s not really the way to do it. In fact, her family doesn’t even own a cookbook.
“In a Vietnamese house, there are no measuring spoons or measuring...
6 tags
3 tags
welele asked: It may interest you. One of the Round Robin DNS servers its not working anymore and its creating some problems. The one not working is wich ends in 230 at least if I do PING with it it wont give me any answer... And some of my visitors had problems accessing my web because of that. I hope it interest you. Thanks for your post ;)
Silicon Valley Asian American Voices
I attended this dinner not fully comprehending what it was about, called Silicon Valley Asian American Voices, hosted by AACI (Asian American for Community Involvement). The format consisted of dinner and mingle, followed by pairing up that involved getting to know each other’s work and family background, and then opening to the audience of about 30 people thoughts and ideas that emerged.
...
3 tags
Rewrote my personal mission
Who are you bảo.thiên.ngô? I thought about what my actions up to now have led to. I guess the section where you put objectives on your résumé is supposed to encapsulate what your aim is. But objectives or goals are measurable milestones of achievements, things like acquiring a specific skill, or being able to put 3 years of corporate on your repertoire of experience.
But what is ultimately my...
Whose surname to use in a marriage →
Trying to do some cultural engineering? :-) I used to do a lot of reading on Vietnamese surname conventions, and the culture behind naming practices is so rich! I lost most of my references, so it’ll take me some time to find them again and create a blog entry about that.
Anthropology says that within patriarchal society, children inherit father’s surname because power rested on him....
5 tags
Rewrote My Nonprofit Org's Description
Rewrote CayDa Foundation’s About Us page. I took a step back and read it with fresh eyes and then determined that CayDa was all over the place, and risked looking like it didn’t focus on anything. But no, we ARE focusing on something. We focus on a community advocacy model. Really simple!
Listen to people. All voices are equal and valid. Write it down.
Figure out the priorities and...
1 tag
7 tags
Vietnamese Beauty Pageant Winners Sue Organizer...
SAN JOSE—So apparently the winners of the inaugural 2011 Người Đẹp Bắc Cali Vietnamese beauty pageant brought its chief organizer, David Tân Giang, to small claims court this past February 2012 for failing to pay their agreed-upon prize money after the contest was held during the Vietnamese New Year Festival held at Vietnam Town business plaza in San Jose. Although the agreement to give...
4 tags
Redefining Eras in Vietnamese History
In a research conducted by three psychology researchers entitled “The Social Psychology of History: Defining the Most Important Events of the Last 10, 100, and 1000 Years,” over 2000 students from several universities in Europe, the United States, and Japan were asked to list the most significant moments in history in the last decade, century, and millennium. The study found that who...
2 tags
WatchPsychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we’re left, right or center. In this eye-opening talk, he pinpoints the moral values that liberals and conservatives tend to honor most. Jonathan Haidt studies how — and why — we evolved to be moral. By understanding more about our moral roots, his hope is that we can...
5 tags
Drvy: Reflections, day IX: follow your bliss →
I received a text from a stranger this morning that read: “Follow your bliss.” The phrase has been said and written millions of times before, but I had never been on the receiving end so directly before. In the Power of Myth, mythologist and writer Joseph Campbell included the following:
Campbell
I’m glad, DrVy, that you’ve come to that realization that the journey should be as...
White Woman Syndrome: Treatment Underway →
The role of the second generation immigrants in cases such as Michelle Le’s kidnapping.
apicp:
by Chi Tran
Battling the inequalities for people of color in mainstream media
Why is it that Asian Pacific Americans (APAs) are rarely featured in movies? Not having the spotlight in the entertainment world is one thing. But it is absolutely frustrating when missing person or homicide...
4 tags
5 tags
“First you must have the discipline to take care of yourself, before you...”
– A conversation with Nick Nghia Nguyen about helping build the Vietnamese American community. 