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Yale is Overrated. Yes, I am Serious When I Say That

Sitting at a bus station in Charleston, SC about a couple of month of ago, a nice black lady next to me suddenly asked: "you are not from around here, are you?" heck, thats surprising. Don't know how many Asian you can find in South Carolina..."not I actually came down here from the Northeast to visit a friend." "oh, what do you do up there?" she asked. "I go to Yale University in Connecticut..." I blandly replied. "oh...you are one of those ..." she chirped back in a rather sarcastic fashion.

Public Transportation is the Future of the World!

"Why don't you have a driver's license?" I get asked this question A LOT. It seems like not having the ability to drive in the States is pretty much unthinkable/incomprehensible for any grown adult here in the States. Especially here in Southern CA, "can't drive" is pretty much equivalent to "can't get anywhere"... Or is it?

Asian Men Are Less "Manly"?!

ok, this isn't a new topic...plenty of people have written about the fact that Asian men are perceived as comparatively not masculine in popular culture (not just here in the USA, but also in Asia itself). White male models are used for underwear advertising, black males are used for adult videos (ok, maybe that one is just biological...but still), and as everyone knows, interracial couples with Asian females are much much more common than with Asian males (and because of that, Asian guys who get non-Asian girls, especially white ones, gains incredible respect from his Asian male friends as long as the girl is not too ugly).

the First Post: a Motivation to Begin

I always thought keeping a blog was above me: isn't it just an electronic diary open to anyone to gawk at? after all, if I had some really good stuff (especially opinion-wise) can't I just publish opinion articles or letters on real newspapers where intelligent people will actually read them and think deeply about them? And, sure, until now, I have been doing exactly that. Go for the most careful and most scripted opinion writing I can come up with and submit them for publication in newspapers all around the world...with decent success, I suppose. But when I think about it, those that written for these potential newspaper pieces (not to mention the ones that get published), are of a tiny percentage of all those thoughts (regarding the world, our society, cultures, people's behaviors, etc.) that constantly go through my mind. If I attempt to put them all on nice scripted pieces for potential publication, I don't know how much effort I would have to put in to search