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Archive for June, 2009
Music and Me
29, Jun 2009I can still vividly remember the first time I actually listened to a Michael Jackson song. I don’t remember when, but I remember I was around 10 years old. I was lying on the floor watching Rush Hour 2 for what seemed like the 20th time. It was the scene with Chris Tucker in the [...]
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Who is Jay Chou?
20, Jun 2009Walking on the sidewalk along a busy commercial artery in the heart of western Taipei, it is impossible to go a block without hearing music from one particular artist blaring from the clusters of three-walled boutique stores. The trademark mumbled lyrics, the impeccable fusion of beats and rhythms from the west and the ancient windpipes [...]
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Go home
12, Jun 2009I always thought the contentious issue of illegal immigration reeked of double standards. If you remember the big deal about illegal immigration 4 years back, back when illegal immigration was basically equal in scale to Prop 8, people were very divided on the issue. Some California residents wanted to deport them, while others felt that [...]
- In: Random Musings
On 6/4…nothing happened
9, Jun 2009June 4. On that date, twenty years ago, at the cultural heart of the Chinese people, in the capital of the People’s Republic of China, in Tiananmen Square, nothing happened. That is the official government stance of the CCP, and it has been that way since 1989.
If that’s the case, then why is the government [...]
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All the same
7, Jun 2009From a young age, at least in the California public education system, we’ve been taught to treat people of all races with respect, and that we are all no different from each other. This lesson was then pushed further with frequent Multicultural Days, African-American History Month, Chinese New Year and Hanukkah celebrations, etc. Then came [...]
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