From the moment I stopped thinking that boys were just cootie-spewing aliens and realized their eye-pleasing potentialities, I developed crushes only on…famous white boys (embarrassing confession #1). Let’s see, there was the ever iconic JTT (Jonathon Taylor Thomas), Devon Sawa, Andrew Keegan, Leo DiCaprio, and whoever else populated the covers of those exceptionally insipid tween-hottie ...

It’s an Asian thing and I don’t know where it started, how it progressed, or where it will end but what I do know is that I used to be obsessed with writing utensils.
Back in my younger days, we didn’t have all these fancy shamancy things called “lead pencils.” We had straight up wood #2 ...

Before he was Lt. Lim, I knew him as simply Mark. We’ve been friends for years and when he first told me he was being shipped off to Iraq, I reacted like any friend would. Like any other civilian, I hadn’t had the slightest clue of what life would be like for Mark over there ...

Danny Cho’s been in the comedic game for a handful of years now and he’s only getting funnier, bigger, and better. I knew I was in love with the funny man when he played an unattractive, typical, L.A. Korean chick in the Youtube hit short skit, “K-Town Hotties.” On-stage he kills it. He understands his ...

(utada.com, by Y. Kikuma)
Utada Hikaru has been doing her In The Flesh 2010 tour since the beginning of the year and every city she stops in leaves a gaggle of satisfied fans in her wake. Utada’s show in her hometown, New York City, was no exception. At one point in the night she remarked that ...

My eyes are almond shaped, dark brown, with a slight crease in the eyelid. When I smile, my eyes disappear into upside down smiles. My face is flat excpet for the button nose that slightly protrudes from the center of it all. My hair is long, dark, with hints of left-over streaks of the $7.99 ...

The first time I heard Susie Suh’s voice, my jaw dropped in astonishment. I was beyond impressed and it took one verse to get me hooked. She’s been compared to the likes of Sarah Maclachlan and Fiona Apple and though those two are musical legends, I still place Miss Suh at the top of my ...

Ladies and gentlemen… I have returned! Ah, sweet interwebs, how I’ve missed you!
Okay, so I really REALLY wanted to make a video blog about the Utada In The Flesh Tour 2010 concert I attended in San Francisco last Sunday, but my ultimate fail at recording and editing made it impossible.

Yeah. Total fail, ...

WARNING: babbling crotchety rant straight ahead

Ok, this is the last sock.
I came across a recently published opinion piece admonishing house-party hosts who instruct each and every guest to remove his/her shoes before entering their pristine abode. Even though the author did not directly take a personal jab at Asia for its perennial pedi-custom, I still took ...

Over 100,000 people dead in 60 seconds. People are missing, bodies lay strewn about the debris filled streets. Children are crying, women are bleeding, food, shelter, medical care are not available and Haiti is left in shambles.
Haiti was still recovering from 2008’s four disastrous storms when the magnitude-7 earthquake hit. Churches, hospitals, schools, prisons including ...