hardboiled blog » celebrating US! http://hardboiled.berkeley.edu/blog the asian pacific american issues newsmagazine at uc berkeley! Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:44:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Happy Pilipino American History Month :] http://hardboiled.berkeley.edu/blog/?p=501 http://hardboiled.berkeley.edu/blog/?p=501#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:39:28 +0000 Denise Wong http://hardboiled.berkeley.edu/blog/?p=501 It’s admittedly a bit late for this, but given that this is the last week of October, I’d like to step outside my role as “perpetually angry blogger” and wish you all a happy Pilipino American Heritage Month (and you can read all about it in our latest issue 13.1, out now!! … and has been out for like 2 weeks)

The subject enters my mind now partly because I just came back from Friendship Games last night, and it really was this absolutely amazing weekend. Although I was initially dismayed at how some people didn’t really appreciate our politicized theme, it really did make me recognize that given our history (the very history we use October to commemorate), any gathering of Pilipinos celebrating each other really is a politicized statement. Perhaps it is, gasp, in fact true that even in being happy, I am making a difference!

Coming here from New York, I’m very pleased with how awesome the different facets of our API community here are. I wish all of you the same sort of transformative experiences with your communities that I just had. ;]

]]> http://hardboiled.berkeley.edu/blog/?feed=rss2&p=501 0 Happy API Heritage Month! http://hardboiled.berkeley.edu/blog/?p=396 http://hardboiled.berkeley.edu/blog/?p=396#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 01:02:09 +0000 elainechen http://hardboiled.berkeley.edu/blog/?p=396 That’s right guys, MAY is our month! I could totally go into great detail about the history of this month, how it originated, what fun things to do in the Bay Area are… but… you know… unfortunately for all of us at UC Berkeley, our hardboiled staff is winding down as finals approach! So apologies in advance for our upcoming SILENCE from the Internet world. It’s that time of the year where we finally begin to remember that… oh wait, we pay like, thousandas of dollars to attend this university which gives us like, grades and stuff.

Anyway, hopefully in like two weeks or so I can give more coherent and fun blog posts. In the meantime, I wanted to forward you guys to more professional bloggers over at Hyphen magazine. For the past month, they’ve been compiling immigrant stories to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Amy Tan’s Asian American novel The Joy Luck Club. Whereas that book totally speaks to only one time of immigrant experience specific to that time period, how much has immigrant stories changed? Lots of people contributed, so you should definitely CHECK IT.

Alright, back to research and immense paper writing. Woe.

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