brain barf… yum!
My good online friend Darleene, blogger and journalist extraordinaire, has been obsessing about rice due to all the recent stories about rice shortages and rice hoarding.
Anyway, Darleene asked me some questions about rice and I answered them.
And she posted it on her blog: Rice Heritage: Joz
Check it out if you want to see what I said and if you want to tell her what you think about rice, send her a note!
Thanks, Darleene!
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So one of the crazy things I got involved with promptly after graduation is this Mother’s Day performance at the Pacific Asia Museum my friend Andrea Apuy is co-directing.
It’s called “Chinese American Stories: My Mother” and since it’s on Mother’s Day, I’ve invited my Mom to see it.
That’s right… I’m getting on stage and telling a story about my mother… with my Mom in the audience! Am I insane!? I feel as nervous as I did in second grade when I was forced to enter speech contests in Chinese School (more like pronunciation contests, because we’d recite poems and stories and stuff; not usually things we wrote ourselves) and had to speak on stage in front of my parents and all the parents of all the other students. Nerve-racking!
Except now I’m doing this supposedly willingly and of my own free will. I blame the decision on the delirium due to lost brain cells during my final semester of MBA school.
Anyway, I’ll be telling a story that has been previously told on this blog, but it’s a story that was meant to be read on the page (or screen, rather), so even though the story was already written, I’ve had to do a lot of “re-working” of this thing.
Oh yeah, there is a also great cast of Chinese Americans who will also share stories for and about their mothers, so it’s not just me who will be up there. (And Taiwanese American Joz will temporarily overlook being lumped in as a Chinese American, for this performance only.)
Here’s the cast listing:
Henry Ong
Judy Soo Hoo
Anna Gee
Marshall Wong
Linda Chong
Ann Lau
(Me)
Denesa Chan
Joyce F Liu
Ewan Chung
Andrea Apuy
Regina Cheng-Sheu
Elbert Traister
Howard Ho
If you come, it would be a great way to spend Mother’s Day afternoon. I suggest brunching in Old Town Pasadena, coming to the Museum and then wandering the Pacific Asia Museum for a bit before the 2pm performance.
Doesn’t that sound like a lovely way to spend an afternoon with Mom?
“Chinese American Stories: My Mother”
Sunday, May 11, 2008 from 2-4pm
Mother’s Day Performance
A presentation of community, family and personal memories collected in a writing/oral history workshop by playwright Henry Ong.
Free with museum admission; call 626.449.2742 ext. 31 to RSVP.
Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101
Museum Admission
$7 for adults, $5 for students/seniors
Parking: Free parking is available in museum parking lot, located on corner of Los Robles and Union in Pasadena
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Entire post written.
Eaten by WP.
GAH!
Going to bed now.
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Ok, so I’d like to keep playing hooky from writing in my blog because it was nice to be on vacation from it. I know the Twitter posts are short and boring, so I guess I’ll get back into the swing of things by writing something that actually resembles a blog post.
A lot of things have happened since graduation, which was only 2 or 3 weeks ago. I’m still working on my thank you notes and other correspondence.
My social calendar has kept me insanely busy, but I think I need to tone it all down and spend a little more time at home.
Work has been keeping me extremely busy. In fact, I’m sitting at the airport right now, waiting for a flight that is going to take me up to Sacramento for client meetings all day tomorrow.
In other news, my Grandma is in the hospital again. I found out late last night that they took her to the ER, I’m not sure why. I won’t be back in LA until late Friday night, so I won’t be able to visit this weekend.
Well the plane is here, so off I go…
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Sadly, jozjozjoz is not amongst them. 
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I’m just freakin’ exhausted!
April has been an absolute whirlwind month and frankly, I deserve a break.
I’ve been trying to keep up with the little things via Twitter and Flickr and Delicious, but I know that these types of things are not the same as me sitting down and devoting a few minutes to, oh, actually WRITING something.
I miss blogging. But I need this right now.
Anyway, hopefully you’ll be back when I come back.
And yes, I’ll definitely be back.
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