Daily Archives: May 12, 2008

APA Month Day 12 – Jabbawockeez

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America’s Best Dance Crew is Jabbawockeez. The Jabbawockeez crew was established by a group of friends wanting to showcase freestyle dance in 2003. Their signature outfit is wearing a white face masks and gloves while synchronizing their dance moves. The Jabbawockeez gained nationwide visibility first on America’s Got Talent, then reached stardom by winning MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew. They also appeared in the movie Step Up 2.

Crew members:

JEFF NGUYEN AKA ‘PHI’, 26 – PHOENIX, AZ

RYNAN SHAWN PAGUIO, 26 – SAN DIEGO, CA

BEN CHUNG AKA ‘B-TEK’, 26 – MISSION HILLS, CA

KEVIN BREWER, 31 – SACRAMENTO, CA

PHIL TAYAG, 23 – SACRAMENTO, CA

CHRIS GATDULA, 26 – LAS VEGAS, NV

GARY RAY KENDELL – SEASIDE, CA (passed away due to pneumonia before filming began)

Compilation of Jabbawokeez on America’s Best Dance Crew:

If you want to know which member of the Jabbawockeez crew is single, watch this video:

Rcently, Jabbawockeez also appeared on the Asian Excellence Awards and The Biggest Online Dance Battle in YouTube History.

Cyclone and Quake in Asia

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Back to back weeks of natural disasters in Asia. Last week was the massive cyclone ripping through Burma aka Myanmar. Over 100,000 people is feared dead and millions could be affected if aid relief is not allowed to get in. Now, we have a major 7.9-magnitude quake in China’s Sichuan Province. Almost 10,000 is feared dead. Looks like the Chinese government is acting quickly on this one.

Keep Burma and China in your prayers.

See the latest on the Burma Cyclone aftermath:

See the latest in China’s quake today:

San Francisco Giants Asian Heritage Week

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The San Francisco Giants will celebrate Asian cultures and communities during Asian Heritage Week at AT&T Park, from May 12 to 17. The Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Japanese communities will each have their own designated night at AT&T Park featuring unique promotional items, special ticket offers, entertainment and educational programs. A special $20 ticket package is available for each of the heritage games and includes a limited edition giveaway and guaranteed seats in the designated heritage seating sections. Here’s a list of activities:

• Monday, May 12 vs. Houston Astros (7:15 p.m.) – Chinese Heritage Night presented by Kikkoman. Fans with a special ticket will receive a Chinese heritage/SF Giants Baseball Cap.

• Tuesday, May 13 vs. Houston Astros (7:15 p.m.) – Korean Heritage Night. Fans with a special ticket will receive a Korean heritage/Giants t-shirt. Entertainment will feature Claire Lillienthal School Korean Performers.

• Wednesday, May 14 vs. Houston Astros (7:15 p.m.) – Filipino Heritage Night. Fans with a special ticket will receive a Filipino heritage/Giants t-shirt. Entertainment will feature Hiyas Dance Group, SF Barangay and Likhas Pilipino Folk Ensemble.

• Friday, May 16 vs. Chicago White Sox (7:15 p.m.) – Japanese Heritage Night presented by Kikkoman. Fans with a special ticket will receive a limited edition Masanori Murakami bobblehead to commemorate the first-ever Japanese player to become a major league player. Entertainment will feature San Francisco Taiko Dojo.

• Saturday, May 17 vs. Chicago White Sox (6:05 p.m.) — SF Hep B Free Night. A $9 donation from each special $20 ticket sold to this game will go toward the SF Hep B Free Campaign.

You can get tickets at the San Francisco Giants.

Look for Keiichi Yabu on the San Francisco Giants and Kazuo Matsui with the Houston Astros:

2008 Asian Film & Television Festival

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The 2008 Asian Film & Television Festival is free five-day event that will showcase films of varying topics that will help to assist in bridging the gap between Asian and American cultures. Here’s where you can go to catch the free flix.

Date: Monday to Friday, May 12 to 16, 2008

Time: 2PM to 4PM; & 4PM to 6PM

Place: Chinese Community Center

64 Mott Street, Manhattan

The other goal of the Asian Film & Television Festival is get people to visit New York City’s Chinatown. Since September 11, 2001, Chinatown’s economy has suffered tremendously through the loss of jobs, businesses and traffic access in Lower Manhattan.

Later this week they are showing Rice Rhapsody:

Happy Birthday to alivenotdead.com

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Asian and Asian American celebrities wishing alivenotdead.com a happy birthday for its one year anniversary. If you don’t know, alivenotdead is an online community dedicated to helping artists. Their goal is to strengthen artist communities worldwide and to help connect these communities together. Through their website, artists can connect with and grow their audience, share their creative works, and meet and collaborate with other artists.

Birthday wishes to alivenotdead part 1:

Birthday wishes to alivenotdead part 2:

G.I. Joe movie – Storm Shadow revealed

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Last week, Paramount Pictures provided Latino Review with a first look at Storm Shadow, who will be played by Byung-hun Lee.

Among Byung-hun Lee’s feature film credits are “Three Extremes,” “Everybody has Secrets,” and “Joint Security Area.” His other upcoming film this year include Kim Jee Woon’s “The Good, the Bad, and the Weird” and Tran Anh Hung’s “I Come with the Rain.”

For G.I. Joe fans, Storm Shadow was trained by the same Ninja master as Snake Eyes. He is also the only member of the team to change sides several times, conflicted by his loyalty to Cobra, G.I. Joe, and Snake Eyes. G.I. Joe the movie is expected next August 7, 2009 .

Meet the G.I. Joe cast:

Watch footage of the G.I. Joe team chasing the Baroness in Her GM Hummer the Scarab though the streets of Prague.