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Oct
21st
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Wong Fu Productions Ouch! I haven’t touched this project for almost a year! I have a really good excuse though, I started working full time and just didn’t have the time to put together any more interviews. But Fresh…
Oct
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Jul
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AArisings @ San Diego Comic Con

Starting on Wednesday, July 23, 2008, I’ll be at the San Diego Comic Con and will hopefully find opportunities to interview Asian Pacific Americans for future A-Profilers coming to AArisings soon. I’ll most certainly be at the Heroes and Lost panels on Saturday as well as many other panels Thursday thru Saturday.
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Nelson Wong interviews Brooke Taylor, a soulful R&B vocalist who has been launched into the public eye thanks to a college audition with Steve Harvey. Find out more about this up-and-coming vocalist and how she’s been able to break the stereotypes, what she has planned for the future, and what she enjoys when she isn’t making music.http://www.aarising.com/aprofiler/brooketaylor.htm Previous profiles: http://www.aarising.com/aprofiler/
Nelson Wong interviews Brooke Taylor, a soulful R&B vocalist who has been launched into the public eye thanks to a college audition with Steve Harvey. Find out more about this up-and-coming vocalist and how she’s been able to break the stereotypes, what she has planned for the future, and what she enjoys when she isn’t making music.

http://www.aarising.com/aprofiler/brooketaylor.htm
Previous profiles: http://www.aarising.com/aprofiler/
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Ray Lam interviews Yên, a soulful R&B vocalist who has surprised many people with his vocal prowess. Find out more about Yên, what his parents reaction was when he told them he wanted to be a musician, who his favorite Vietnamese vocalist is, and where he will go next.http://www.aarising.com/aprofiler/yen.htm Previous profiles: http://www.aarising.com/aprofiler/
Ray Lam interviews Yên, a soulful R&B vocalist who has surprised many people with his vocal prowess. Find out more about Yên, what his parents reaction was when he told them he wanted to be a musician, who his favorite Vietnamese vocalist is, and where he will go next.

http://www.aarising.com/aprofiler/yen.htm
Previous profiles: http://www.aarising.com/aprofiler/
Jun
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Marlon Dane is the latest A-Profiled artist on AArisings.  Check out Ray Lam’s interview with Dane at http://www.aarising.com/aprofiler/marlondane.htm
Marlon Dane is the latest A-Profiled artist on AArisings.  Check out Ray Lam’s interview with Dane at http://www.aarising.com/aprofiler/marlondane.htm
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Sorry for the lack of updates.  Been on vacation, dealing with sick kids, sick wife, and trying not to get sick myself.  Things settling down again, I think.  Thanks.
Apr
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Anybody have a resource for finding old books?  I’m looking for a book referenced in “The Fortune Cookie Chronicles” (which I’m currently reading and will have review on AArisings soon).  The book is called “Practical English for People Working in Chinese Restaurant” by Yuan Dai.  Got a few Google hits but nothing from anybody that has the book in stock.
Mar
21st
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I’ve posted the latest A-Profiler interview with Kimee Balmilero, perhaps best known for being one of the five members of the television show Hi-5. We find out what it was like to audition for Hi-5, what she has been doing during the show’s hiatus, and what we can expect from her in the future. We also discover she likes to introduce people to Filipino and Hawaiian food! Yum! A-Profiler is a regular series profiling up-and-coming and established artists in an informal questions-and-answers format. If you would like to find out about past profiles or would like to be profiled, visit http://www.aarising.com/aprofiler/ for more information.
I’ve posted the latest A-Profiler interview with Kimee Balmilero, perhaps best known for being one of the five members of the television show Hi-5. We find out what it was like to audition for Hi-5, what she has been doing during the show’s hiatus, and what we can expect from her in the future. We also discover she likes to introduce people to Filipino and Hawaiian food! Yum!

A-Profiler is a regular series profiling up-and-coming and established artists in an informal questions-and-answers format. If you would like to find out about past profiles or would like to be profiled, visit http://www.aarising.com/aprofiler/ for more information.
Mar
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A few nights ago my 4 year old son wanted to play on the computer so he started up the laptop and I opened up the browser and sent him off to the PBS Kids site (www.pbskids.org for those curious). He went to the “Super Why!” section of the site since he enjoys that program. “Super Why!” is a show that is about superheroes who go into classic fairytale stories and go on spelling and reading adventures. Anyway, one of the online games allows you to create your own superhero but you need to pass spelling challenges in order to get costume options. They start off with easy 3 letter words and work their way up to 6 letter words in the later rounds and you select the letters from a pool of 6 letters in random order to fill in the blanks. They give you hints by telling you what the letter sounds like.

So, my son is playing this and I’m sitting next to him working on my desktop computer. He’s doing pretty well and he gets to a 6 letter word. The first two letters in this six letter word are I and N and the game is telling him that the third letter sounds like “seh” so he clicks on the letter he thinks it should be and it tells him that is the wrong letter and to try again. He gets a bit frustrated and asks for my help. I turn to the laptop screen and to my disbelief this is what I see on the screen.