Musings on an Uncomfortable Childhood
They say that 50% of your personality is genetic and the other 50% a product of your environment in your more formative years. I often ...
Perspectives
Uncovering the X Factors Behind Insomnia
We all know that coffee compromises sleep. Yet some of my best nights of sleep came after binging on coffee. The protein in a meat-heavy ...
The Elusive Logic of Sleep
Sound sleep, I suspect, is the ultimate goal of religion. Who knows spiritual suffering better than an insomniac? Whether you call it hell or purgatory
Sleep, Insomnia and the Mysteries of Life
Sleep is life's great mystery, greater I think than love. We have good working hypotheses on love and its functions. But we still can't fathom ...
Vancouver Winter Games and the Speed-Skating Asians
Apolo Anton Ohno cut to the inside the final lap of the short-track 1500m speed skating final, trying to force the hand of the three ...
Obama's Clarity Wins the Day — Again
Bad leadership panders to confusion and creates more. Good leadership clears up the confusion to win support for good leadership. Barack Obama's presidency represents a ...
The Barbarity Hidden in the 'The Cove'
I had the opportunity to catch the award-winning documentary up for an Oscar this year The Cove, directed by Louie Psihoyos and written by Mark ...
My Sassy Girl Lost in Hollywood's Translation
There's an idea that some of us subconsciously subscribe to that goes a little something like this: the rest of the world might have something ...
Asian Gluttons Beware: L.A.'s Most Treacherous Food Street
There's no shortage of streets packed with great Asian food in Southern California. But for me Pioneer Boulevard between Artesia and South Street
End of the Pete Carroll Era
What else is there to say? Sportswriters are having a field day with USC, USC coaching changes
American Clothes Make American Bodies
Some have blamed American fast food for the obesity epidemic. I blame American clothes.
Seafood Soiree: A Night at The Boiling Crab
A restaurant that my people have been raving about the last couple of years has been The Boiling Crab.
California's Asian-Majority Generation
In about two dozen U.S. cities a generation of Asian Americans is reaching adulthood with scant knowledge of what it's like being a racial minority.
Asian Las Vegas Pilgrimage
How many times have I vowed never to return to Las Vegas? This time I managed to keep the vow for two years.
The Asian-American and Music
I thought I would write a little bit about my relation to music since it is such an integral part of my life. For one, ...
Tiger's Hard Rocky Road to Redemption
As long as your heart is beating the road to redemption is there to walk. Tiger is no exception.
Asian American Woman's Burden
By the age of ten I could picture my future husband. He would be handsome, thoughtful, brilliant, strong and sing like an archangel, just like ...
Asian Southerners
When my parents told me they were moving from our home in California to Alabama, I envisioned a sparsely populated vacuum infested with greasy deep-fried ...
Dear Will Smith
At age 10, most girls had just graduated Barbie and entered the tailspinning world of boys, but I was light-years ahead of the curve. I ...
Unsticking Japan
I am delighted that the LDP has lost power in Japan after 55 years of nearly continuous rule. It's not because I believe that the ...
Confessions of a Happy Asian American
Some people bitch about being Asian in the U.S. of A. Me, I live for it. I tried joining the majority once. No, it wasn't ...
Brotherly Advice for Asian American Women
Hey, Asian women, I love you. But I gotta tell you -- Your nutty insecurities make you do things that are highly embarrassing not only ...
10 Reasons Why Identity Matters to Asian Americans
After years of sleep-deprivation, hobo chic and ramen dinners, you've arrived! You're behind a walnut desk, backed up by a wall of framed sheepskins, hanging ...
Spotting Race Bores
Race bore" is a term commonly used to put down people who don't pretend that race doesn't exist. It's a term coined by people in ...
Sacred Sexuality
Let's get real for a moment. I mean, just between you, me and this dropcap. When you were in your teens, before reality took ...
Thoughts for Sleepless Nights
They say all humans are genetically 99.95% identical. What? What about the other 0.05%?! Do the math. We have about 34,000 genes. That means ...
Asian Students Under Assault
It's been a long time since I've been in the hormone-charged racially-aware atmosphere of high school but a feature I read this week about the ...
What Those Chinese Tattoos Really Say
Last week, my good friend Jill – miss golden child of her family – stealthily encroached forbidden territory. She got a tattoo. On that ...
Big American Misconceptions About Asians
We Asian Americans stand at the crossroads between west and east. We feel the currents swirling together in opposition to form thunderheads with the ...
The Lou Jing Ripple Effect
What constitutes one's identity? This is the question that has recently come up when Lou Jing, a mixed-race Shanghainese woman, has become the focal point ...
Education Reforms Aint the Key to American Prosperity
For some time now there's been a kind of national hysteria about the loss of "American jobs" to other countries and the "hollowing out" of ...
Asian Establishment in Top American Cities
From New York to Los Angeles, Seattle to Houston, a transformation is taking place in American cities. An aging population of mostly whites and blacks ...
Facebook Kills Real Life, Then Dies
The digital camera boom probably owes much to the fact that the under-25 generation lives to post Facebook updates. How else than through uploading countless ...
Of Time and Fat
Time was you hardly ever saw a fat Asian. Nowadays I see more, though still not as often as fat people in general. The assumption ...
Connecting with Other Asian Americans
Once you learn to appreciate yourself in all your Asian American glory, you are ready to appreciate similar qualities in other Asian Americans. Shared experiences ...
Time to Get a New Mirror
Growing up in American society has the unfortunate effect of conditioning young Asians to look to Whites to set the standard. The inevitable effect is ...
Discarding Social Conditioning
You've recognized that becoming a secure Asian American isn't a birthright but a struggle, and that the struggle is shared by all Asian Americans as ...
Becoming a Secure Asian American (Pts. 1 - 4)
A reader asks: "How do you transition into being a self-confident Asian American if you currently think of yourself as a pathetic white-washed Asian, a ...
Sexualizing Homosexuality
I spent the majority of my life in sunny Los Angeles, where the only trend more fashionable than skinny jeans and the grapefruit diet is ...
Musings on an Uncomfortable Childhood
They say that 50% of your personality is genetic and the other 50% a product of your environment in your more formative years. I often ...
Uncovering the X Factors Behind Insomnia
We all know that coffee compromises sleep. Yet some of my best nights of sleep came after binging on coffee. The protein in a meat-heavy ...
The Elusive Logic of Sleep
Sound sleep, I suspect, is the ultimate goal of religion. Who knows spiritual suffering better than an insomniac? Whether you call it hell or purgatory
Sleep, Insomnia and the Mysteries of Life
Sleep is life's great mystery, greater I think than love. We have good working hypotheses on love and its functions. But we still can't fathom ...
Vancouver Winter Games and the Speed-Skating Asians
Apolo Anton Ohno cut to the inside the final lap of the short-track 1500m speed skating final, trying to force the hand of the three ...
Obama's Clarity Wins the Day — Again
Bad leadership panders to confusion and creates more. Good leadership clears up the confusion to win support for good leadership. Barack Obama's presidency represents a ...
The Barbarity Hidden in the 'The Cove'
I had the opportunity to catch the award-winning documentary up for an Oscar this year The Cove, directed by Louie Psihoyos and written by Mark ...
My Sassy Girl Lost in Hollywood's Translation
There's an idea that some of us subconsciously subscribe to that goes a little something like this: the rest of the world might have something ...
Asian Gluttons Beware: L.A.'s Most Treacherous Food Street
There's no shortage of streets packed with great Asian food in Southern California. But for me Pioneer Boulevard between Artesia and South Street
End of the Pete Carroll Era
What else is there to say? Sportswriters are having a field day with USC, USC coaching changes
American Clothes Make American Bodies
Some have blamed American fast food for the obesity epidemic. I blame American clothes.
Seafood Soiree: A Night at The Boiling Crab
A restaurant that my people have been raving about the last couple of years has been The Boiling Crab.
California's Asian-Majority Generation
In about two dozen U.S. cities a generation of Asian Americans is reaching adulthood with scant knowledge of what it's like being a racial minority.
Asian Las Vegas Pilgrimage
How many times have I vowed never to return to Las Vegas? This time I managed to keep the vow for two years.
The Asian-American and Music
I thought I would write a little bit about my relation to music since it is such an integral part of my life. For one, ...
Tiger's Hard Rocky Road to Redemption
As long as your heart is beating the road to redemption is there to walk. Tiger is no exception.
Asian American Woman's Burden
By the age of ten I could picture my future husband. He would be handsome, thoughtful, brilliant, strong and sing like an archangel, just like ...
Asian Southerners
When my parents told me they were moving from our home in California to Alabama, I envisioned a sparsely populated vacuum infested with greasy deep-fried ...
Dear Will Smith
At age 10, most girls had just graduated Barbie and entered the tailspinning world of boys, but I was light-years ahead of the curve. I ...
Unsticking Japan
I am delighted that the LDP has lost power in Japan after 55 years of nearly continuous rule. It's not because I believe that the ...
Confessions of a Happy Asian American
Some people bitch about being Asian in the U.S. of A. Me, I live for it. I tried joining the majority once. No, it wasn't ...
Brotherly Advice for Asian American Women
Hey, Asian women, I love you. But I gotta tell you -- Your nutty insecurities make you do things that are highly embarrassing not only ...
10 Reasons Why Identity Matters to Asian Americans
After years of sleep-deprivation, hobo chic and ramen dinners, you've arrived! You're behind a walnut desk, backed up by a wall of framed sheepskins, hanging ...
Spotting Race Bores
Race bore" is a term commonly used to put down people who don't pretend that race doesn't exist. It's a term coined by people in ...
Sacred Sexuality
Let's get real for a moment. I mean, just between you, me and this dropcap. When you were in your teens, before reality took ...
Thoughts for Sleepless Nights
They say all humans are genetically 99.95% identical. What? What about the other 0.05%?! Do the math. We have about 34,000 genes. That means ...
Asian Students Under Assault
It's been a long time since I've been in the hormone-charged racially-aware atmosphere of high school but a feature I read this week about the ...
What Those Chinese Tattoos Really Say
Last week, my good friend Jill – miss golden child of her family – stealthily encroached forbidden territory. She got a tattoo. On that ...
Big American Misconceptions About Asians
We Asian Americans stand at the crossroads between west and east. We feel the currents swirling together in opposition to form thunderheads with the ...
The Lou Jing Ripple Effect
What constitutes one's identity? This is the question that has recently come up when Lou Jing, a mixed-race Shanghainese woman, has become the focal point ...
Education Reforms Aint the Key to American Prosperity
For some time now there's been a kind of national hysteria about the loss of "American jobs" to other countries and the "hollowing out" of ...
Asian Establishment in Top American Cities
From New York to Los Angeles, Seattle to Houston, a transformation is taking place in American cities. An aging population of mostly whites and blacks ...
Facebook Kills Real Life, Then Dies
The digital camera boom probably owes much to the fact that the under-25 generation lives to post Facebook updates. How else than through uploading countless ...
Of Time and Fat
Time was you hardly ever saw a fat Asian. Nowadays I see more, though still not as often as fat people in general. The assumption ...
Connecting with Other Asian Americans
Once you learn to appreciate yourself in all your Asian American glory, you are ready to appreciate similar qualities in other Asian Americans. Shared experiences ...
Time to Get a New Mirror
Growing up in American society has the unfortunate effect of conditioning young Asians to look to Whites to set the standard. The inevitable effect is ...
Discarding Social Conditioning
You've recognized that becoming a secure Asian American isn't a birthright but a struggle, and that the struggle is shared by all Asian Americans as ...
Becoming a Secure Asian American (Pts. 1 - 4)
A reader asks: "How do you transition into being a self-confident Asian American if you currently think of yourself as a pathetic white-washed Asian, a ...
Sexualizing Homosexuality
I spent the majority of my life in sunny Los Angeles, where the only trend more fashionable than skinny jeans and the grapefruit diet is ...
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