Posts Tagged ‘irksome’
Friend of friend, foot in mouth.
About a year ago I went out for dinner with a friend of mine and met one of her friends and his cousin. We had Korean BBQ and in the course of paying I accidentally took $10 from her friend and underpaid. So I wrote him through MySpace and said,
“stalked you through K to [...]
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Tags: asian, email, friends, irksome, math
Left that country.
I live in Hong Kong now. I left my apartment and life in New York and took two suitcases and a duffle bag with me. (I got a grant to work here for a year.)
About two weeks before I left, when I was home taking stock of all the things in my apartment I don’t [...]
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Tags: china, clinton hill, conversations, hong kong, irksome, strangers, wtf
That drunk guy at the ballpark.
I got to attend Game 2 at Citi Field on Wednesday and had a pretty fantastic time. The new stadium reminded me a bit of my hometown Giants’ AT&T Park, with plenty of room to walk around during the game while still being able to see the field. I took all of the 8th inning [...]
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Tags: baseball, conversations, flushing, irksome, strangers
A few weeks ago, Clinton Hill.
I need some good comebacks. I love Brooklyn and I love my neighborhood, but recently I’ve run into some icky situations that have made me want to completely stop being friendly. First, the creepy guy with the gold grill who works at the supermarket tried to hug and kiss me. I’ve always just said hi [...]
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Tags: clinton hill, irksome, strangers
Advertising and Asians.
I am unfortunate enough to work in an industry that can be absolutely insensitive to issues of gender, race, class, and the like. While doing some work for ConAgra Foods, which Healthy Choice is part of, I came across this lovely promotional feature that made my soul weep. I present:
I feel bad for this actor. [...]
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Tags: advertising, chinese, food, irksome
Kim Jong-il is sick and so am I.
Mr. Kim may be ailing, in hospital, and could have suffered a stroke in August. With Castro relinquishing control of Cuba to his brother, it appears this generation of dictators are facing something an oppressive regime can’t control: old age.
In my old age of 26, I am sick as well, not with the cold or [...]
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Tags: fort greene, irksome, korea, strangers
Costume ideas.
I’ve developed a peculiar dread of the holiday known as Halloween. A few years ago I went out three nights in a row with three different costumes, and ever since I’ve been convinced it’s an overblown evening that ends up being a source of stress more than fun. Nothing will ever compare to the epic [...]
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Tags: art, irksome, japanese, malaise, pandas
Ugh. China, why must you continue to make negative headlines.
Stop spying on everyone!
A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words.
Researchers in China have estimated that 30,000 or more “Internet police” monitor online [...]
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Tags: china, controversy, irksome, politics
Apparently someone named Jimmy Choi used to live in my building. It’s unclear which apartment he lived in because his gas bill never specifies an apartment. So someone at the post offices scrawls my apartment number on the envelope and it ends up in my mailbox month after month. And every month I write on [...]
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Tags: chinese, clinton hill, irksome, korean
50,000 babies are sick on milk.
That’s not even the worst of it. We lost David Foster Wallace. The economy’s in the shitter. LIRR employees are cheating the system. 53 dead in Pakistan. A sizable chunk of voters still think Obama has ties to Islam. I just broke a glass.
It’s hard to be optimistic on Monday morning when things seem rather [...]
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Tags: china, irksome, malaise, politics
Guilty pleasure.
I’m really excited about the Sex and the City movie and feel a bit embarrassed about it. It’s partly because the show is so unrealistic about living in New York and also because I feel strange relating so much to a show that is absolutely not targeted towards me, a 20-something Asian female. Perhaps it’s [...]
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Tags: film, irksome, japanese, media, tv
Shut up, Sharon Stone.
At the top of my gmail inbox, a headline from Yahoo! Entertainment keeps popping up like chronic ezcema.
Apparently Sharon Stone ran her mouth off at Cannes suggesting that the horrible Chinese earthquake is some sort of divine retribution.
She said in an interview with a CHINESE news source:
“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are [...]
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Tags: china, diplomacy, irksome, media
Mashi mashi?
A few weeks ago I was walking up Clinton Avenue to indulge in deliciously greasy American Chinese food at Kum Kao, and passed by a man and his son who seemed to be waiting around for something. As I passed, the man said something like, “Have a good evening. Mashi mashi.”
I like it when people [...]
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Tags: clinton hill, irksome, japanese, strangers
That questionable ad with the Chinese-accented panda couple has been taken off the air after viewers complained. Bye bye, Ling Ling’s Bamboo Furniture Shack.
From the NYTimes article:
Vinod Gupta, the chairman and chief executive of InfoUSA in Omaha, the parent of Salesgenie.com, said in a telephone interview Tuesday that a commercial featuring two animated pandas speaking [...]
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Tags: chinese, irksome, media, pandas, south asian, tv
