Monthly Archives: September 2011

Glee Season 3 Episode 3 sneak peek : Asian F

Glee fans, get a sneak peek of next week’s episode of Glee. Don’t read or watch this if you don’t want spoilers.

In Glee Season 3 Episode 3 entitled “Asian F”, Harry Shum Jr. gets more depth in his character. We’ll get introduced to his parents played by Tamilyn Tomita and Keong Sim. Harry Shum Jr.’s character Mike Chang gets an A- (aka the Asian F). We’re sure many of our reader can related to the parental pressures that Mike Chang faces. His character also faces the dreaded discussion about career choices. Asian parents push their kids toward careers like doctors/surgeons, lawyers, and engineers. And if you want to do something in the arts like music or dance, you can forget about it. Mike Chang doesn’t want the “typical” jobs instead he wants to explore the world of entertainment. You’ll get to learn what dance mean to him in the episode.

Read more about the episode here. We’re sure a lot of Asian Americans will be able to identify with the story line. No word yet on how many episode the story line will extend, but we’re pretty sure the term “Asian F” will be heavily used the next day.

See what Harry Shum Jr.’s acting and dancing range is like outside of Glee with shorts this past year: Matched, LXD, Buffet, 3 Steps to Self Esteem, Best Date EVER!, and 3 Minutes.

Glee Season 3 Episode 3 sneak peek : Asian F

Asian American flash mob wedding proposals

Trang and Nam flash mob wedding proposal at UCLAJamin and Val flash mob wedding proposal at Downtown Disney

This week was a busy week for Asian American flash mob wedding proposals. Southern California seems to be the hotspot for these big productions. Both videos were uploaded the same day. Congrats to both couples.

The first one has Nam bringing Trang back to the first place they met on the campus of UCLA. To help him with the ultimate surprise, he enlisted the services of flashmob america. The music of choice is “Can’t Take My Eyes off You” by Frankie Valli and The 4 Seasons. He even jumps into the mob himself to show off some of his moves. Bring back that positivity to the UCLA campus.

The second one has Jamin taking Val over to Downtown Disney. Bringing some friends together, they dance to “Marry You” by Bruno Mars. Just like the first video, the guy joins in the choreography. They managed to capture the pureness of every angle, every smile, every wiped tear.

Here’s more magical proposals: Secret Mission and Disneyland Marriage proposal.

Trang and Nam flash mob wedding proposal at UCLA

Jamin and Val flash mob wedding proposal at Downtown Disney

Annie vs Asian Annie on Community Season 3 Episode 2

Annie vs Asian Annie on Community Season 3 Episode 2

Tune into Community tonite to see Annie take on her new frenemy, Asian Annie. In Community Season 3 Episode 2 “Geography of Global Conflict,” we will see Irene Choi play Annie Kim. Here’s more about the episode:

As Chang (Ken Jeong) settles into his new job as a campus security officer, Britta (Gillian Jacobs) is overwhelmed with feelings of civil disobedience when a friend is taken hostage in a foreign country. Meanwhile, Annie (Alison Brie) enlists the study group to help her defeat her new “friend” Annie Kim (Irene Choi) in a Model United Nations competition, while Professor Cligoris (Martin Starr, “Party Down”) struggles to maintain decorum.

Which Annie is smarter?
two Annies Alison Brie & Irene Choi

Looks like it might get down right ugly tonite between two Annies. Annie and evil twin Annie.

update: Full episode of Community Season 3 Episode 2

Annie vs Asian Annie on Community Season 3 Episode 2

It Girl Asian American Remix

It Girl Asian American Remix

A massive collabo came out out a recent event in Seattle. Tommy C x Jargon x L-Dubs x Loe x Erin Paula get together on an Asian American Remix to Jason Derulo’s “It Girl”. The group looks like they had some fun times at an amusement park. Listen to what it takes to be an “It Girl” You can download the track FREE here.

Watch these other Asian American remixes: Say Ahh, Bedrock, Replay

It Girl by Jargon, L-Dubs, Loe ft. Tommy C and Erin Paula (contains explicit lyrics)

Lyrics to It Girl Asian American Remix

Chorus – (Tommy C)
You could be my it girl
Baby you’re the sh*t girl
Lovin’ you could be a crime
Crazy how we fit girl
This is it girl
Give me 25 to life
I just wanna rock all night long
And put you in the middle of my spotlight You could be my it girl You’re my biggest hit girl

Let me play it loud
Let me play it loud like… oh oh oh oh
Let me play it loud
Let me play it loud like… oh oh oh oh
Let me play it loud

JARGON
I don’t wanna go home with you, I wanna wake up with you N maybe share a couple vows I wanna take up with you Spend a whole day just to lay up with you And get you mad for a minute just to make up with you For your love I’ll go dumb shawty, retard Cuz you’re my I.T. girl, no Geek Squad Used to think my heart need a recharge But now its all access no keycard So it’ll be, a little more history If ‘it’ and me, could take off to It-aly Cuz that, ‘it’ is you, and it’s fit to be N if I cant have that, than its it for me Peace!

L-Dubs
So quick, U got Sam, on a trip, like first class One glimpse, like hot damn, U it, U got tagged Your wit, is so fast, you dress, so high class Your lips, is so soft, other chicks, get blown off They gone, U the one, U da shi*t, U da bomb U the girl, that I plan my future history for A couple kids, picket fence, girl whatever U want Just lemme know it, we can do it, babe it’s more than just talk cuz U my

LOERIDER
no doubt baby girl you the reason
knock em out cold fall like the seasons
may weather any weather i can feel it
i build it you cum ikea bed let me build it
you the perfect verse over the perfect beat lets make music or better yet a symphony so dot ya i’s and cross ya t’s and put em together cause you it for me girl

Last Train Home on PBS

Last Train Home on PBS

If you missed the eye-opening film “Last Train Home” on the film festival circuit, you can now watch it online for a limited time. The documentary gives you a whole new perspective of the sacrifices made in China to create products for consumption around the world. Here’s more about the film:

In the opening shots of Last Train Home, as the camera pans over a paved empty lot, then across a sea of people jostling behind barriers and finally into a surging river of humanity, the film plunges the viewer into an extraordinary phenomenon. China’s booming economy depends on the single largest migrant work force in the world: 240 million people who have left their homes and villages to seek work in urban factories.

The scale of this internal migration, and the social turmoil it brings, is never more visible than in the workers’ annual return to their families and villages for Chinese New Year. Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year in the world’s largest human migration. Millions on the move is a testament to the determination of Chinese workers to reconnect with family and tradition. It also exposes a nation under stress from rapid economic development and massive social change.

Among those millions are husband and wife Zhang Changhua and Chen Suqin who, 16 years earlier, left their village in Sichuan Province—and left their children in the care of grandparents—to work in the city of Guangzhou, 1,300 miles away. Last Train Home takes viewers on a heart-stopping journey with the Zhangs, a couple who left infant children behind for factory jobs 16 years ago, hoping their wages would lift their children to a better life. Their contact with their children was reduced largely to telephone calls and the annual New Year’s reunion. The Zhangs return to a family growing distant and a daughter longing to leave school for unskilled work. While the great spaces of China, alternately empty or crowded with anxious tides of people, are always present, Last Train Home is most intimately the story of the Zhang family, who are fated to reach for the promise of the new China and discover its wrenching cost. As the Zhangs navigate their new world, the film paints a rich, human portrait of China’s rush to economic development.

Last Train Home on PBS

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The Guild Season 5 episode 10

The Guild Season 5 episode 10

With the future of their game at stake, The Guild meet in a crowded hotel room to hosts a war summit as the they regroup to head off the breakup of their game. Massive amount of changes in the game from censoring to micro charging to being FREE are headed to the game in an effort to attract the casual gamers. The hardcore team of The Guild will have none of it. It’s time for “Strategy Timez”.

In an effort to save their beloved game, they crash the costume ball at Megagame-O-Ramacon to try to change the mind of the game developer. With no cash among the members of the group, they rely on Tink and her fashion skills to bring them costume designs that will surely blow off the socks of attendees and judges.

Previous episodes:
The Guild Season 5 episode 1
The Guild Season 5 episode 2
The Guild Season 5 episode 3
The Guild Season 5 episode 4
The Guild Season 5 episode 5
The Guild Season 5 episode 6
The Guild Season 5 episode 7
The Guild Season 5 episode 8
The Guild Season 5 episode 9

The Guild Season 5 episode 10

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