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In My Own Backyard
San Francisco Bay Area. I am still endlessly amazed that I actually live here. Within the last week, several different friends have come and gone on their various Bay Area visits, and it’s been a great excuse for me to rediscover the sights that surround me. Berkeley. The view from Ho Chie’s roof deck at…
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Taiwanese American Cultural Festival, SF
Wow. It’s been a year. At this time last year, I was visiting the Bay Area and interviewing with Oakland Teaching Fellows. It’s amazing to think how quickly life moves by. The week I was visiting also happened to be Taiwanese American heritage week, and I got to be here for part of the Taiwanese…
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Pacific Grove
Sunsets are so obviously beautiful, every camera-wielding human being seems compelled to take a photo. Sunsets, flowers, cute babies… I guess I can’t stop myself either. This is a collection of sunset images from Pacific Grove when we went on a spontaneous weekend visit back in March. It was ridiculously cold and windy, but of…
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Adam Wang
Adam Wang is an actor based in Los Angeles. In fact, he’s the killer that James Van Der Beek is chasing down he whole time in Formosa Betrayed. And he delivers some great lines in flawless Mandarin at the end. While he was up here visiting the Bay Area, Adam wanted to do dramatic artsy…
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Shawna Yang Ryan
Shawna Yang Ryan is a talented hapa Taiwanese American writer whose debut novel, Water Ghosts, was just released on Thursday. This week, I met up with Shawna for a late-afternoon shoot on the UC Berkeley campus. Read the spotlight article we just posted on TaiwaneseAmerican.org and visit Shawna’s website at shawnayangryan.com to learn more. Last,…
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Cynthia, Alanna, Alice: Singer-Songwriters
Three Taiwanese-American Female Singer-Songwriters It was an epic meeting as three Taiwanese American female singer-songwriters converged upon Berkeley and were introduced to each other for the first time. From left to right: Cynthia Lin from New York, Alanna Lin from Los Angeles, and Alice Tong from San Francisco. I was lucky enough to enjoy performances…
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Another Look at New York
I am back in Oakland now. It’s a funny feeling to be in a plane for 6 hours and yet still have a whole day ahead of me; I departed at 9am and arrived before 1pm. Between reading Shawna Yang Ryan’s new book (Water Ghosts) and watching hours of DirectTV (thanks JetBlue!), I edited a…
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NYC
As promised, here are some more photos from the New York trip thus far. To start things off, we go to Central Park. My first reactions to the city: 1. it’s dirty. 2. there are too many people everywhere. I suppose these things make for a place with “character” that you can’t find anywhere else….
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New York City
New York, New York! This is the first time I’ve been in New York since age 3, when I tagged along with my family to visit relatives in Jersey. And now here I am, enjoying a week-long spring break in the city of all cities. I have much to share, but for now, I will…