Growing up, I always loved being the performer. Although I was a shy child at school, at home I was constantly dragging my siblings to perform plays or dress up as some character. I loved movies and as a teenager, loved watching the Oscars. I would try to watch most of the movies nominated and […]
Month: March 2022
Clean/natural foods vs bottom feeders: how we’ve become elitist about food (and everything else)
Sometimes, it’s the most arbitrary of places where some of my writing ideas suddenly take a whole life of their own. This one popped into my head at my friend’s crawfish boil this past Saturday. For anyone who does not know what this is all about, it’s where you mix a bunch of random spices, […]
Remembering Atlanta: An honest view of my own Asian experience, where we are today and the narrative I still believe in
It was a year ago on March, 16, 2021 that evil fell upon Atlanta. A gunman went on a shooting spree at three massage parlors and killed eight people, six of them Asian women. Many in the Asian community, already on edge from the rise of anti-Asian sentiment, lived in fear and uncertainty of feeling […]
United from turmoil abroad yet broken in our own issues at home
In the weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, I’ve seen something that I haven’t seen since perhaps 9/11. Americans have come together in denouncing this dastardly attack. Look on social media and you see all the I Stand With Ukraine and other supportive posts. It’s been nothing short of astonishing to see this kind of a […]
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