In One Suburb, Local Politics With Asian Roots (New York Times)
According to the article, 9 out of 28 local elected officials are Asian American. That’s amazing! The question is how to encourage public service from Asians.
The Learning Channel – A wedding story
Imagine my utter surprise during TV surfing to come across this series. First couple was a Chinese guy and a blond gal from Massachussetts. Would not have ever expected this pairing on TV. So for those out there on this issue (still aways)… heh. Second couple were both Vietnamese, groom was partially blind and the bride was a lawyer. They were local to me, San Jose CA. It was very cool.
=YC
Happy New Year!!!
Consider the New Year’s Day edition of the comic strip “Non Sequitor”. It’s such a post 9/11 type of New Year’s comic with its “theme” on the year’s “Top 10 news stories” (“I didn’t die, I didn’t lose my job, and maybe I’ve earned some money.”).
Dick Clark and the Times Square ball – umm, did that ball come down a little fast or was it just me?
NY Times’ food critic William Grimes turns in his last review on 12/31/03. There’s also a fascinating Interactive Feature “A Grimes Retrospective,” where Grimes is unmasked (literally, he is; his one-time appearance on a PBS show in NYC, his face had to be blurred so that the restaurants wouldn’t recognize him).
January 1, 2004: NY Times article about an art exhibit in Paris about the historical Confucius.
There are other interesting 1/1/04 articles, which I’ll read later, once I feel like I’ve made a better recovery of the whole New Year’s eve thing. Enjoy the bowl games in the meantime. It’s not like I know who to root for. I just don’t see the bowls as nearly as fun as NCAA basketball, for a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons include: (a) I don’t really appreciate seeing all these corporate names attached to the bowls’ names (Capital One Bowl; Fed Ex Orange Bowl; Tostitos Fiesta Bowl; like I’ll use the services/products of these corporate sponsors because I watched the bowl game). (b) And, I get such a sadistic kick out of watching my March Madness brackets be completely wrong, which the bowl’s don’t provide. ( c ) Plus, it’s not like my alma mater and its league are great in football either, such that I don’t have a reason to follow college football (but at least Alma Mater had a better record than last season, at least).
But, watching the bowls is a New Year’s tradition to enjoy. Cheers!