My Mother the Tigress
I called my Mother on Skype this morning to discuss the excerpt of Amy Chua‘s new book published on the Wall Street Journal over the weekend. Reading Chua’s article, my Mom said, was like reading documentation of her own child rearing techniques. “I still remember our fights,” she wrote in an e-mail to me before...
Children of Invention
Last week, I went to see an indie film called Children of Invention. The movie was really entertaining – it made me sad, it made me laugh, it made me think. It was especially meaningful because the two main stars were an 8-year-old Chinese girl and a 10-year-old Chinese boy. The movie is about a...
Jay Chou’s Hollywood debut
Jay Chou has been cast in the role of masked vigilante Kato in the new adaptation of the Green Hornet. He replaces Hong Kong star Stephen Chow, who was originally set to direct and act in the film but pulled out citing “differences” with Columbia Pictures, according to HK paper The Apple Daily. The movie...
On old asian couples and fleeting love.
I’m going to start off with a generalization: Old Asian couples are rarely romantic. This generalization comes from years of observation. I’ve seen it all around the world. Old Asian couples rarely PDA. And I’m not going to let it go by excusing them because well, they’re old. I see plenty of caucasian (white) old...
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