Posts Tagged ‘korean’
August 22, Peking Road.
I had a bit of a deja vu moment while walking around Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon last weekend. There are a lot of South Asian guys who hang out around there and ask if you want to buy watches and handbags. One said to me, “Where is Kowloon Hotel?” I told him I didn’t [...]
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Tags: conversations, hong kong, japanese, korean, south asian, strangers
Well, that’s not quite true. We have been all up ons higher ed for quite a while. It’s not nicknamed University of Caucasians Living among Asians (UCLA) for nothing. But now Dartmouth has taken another step in choosing the first Asian-American to head an Ivy League institution. So this is quite interesting news.
Dr. Jim Yong [...]
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Tags: academia, firsts, korean
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
