TIP: If you ever feel like you need a quick popularity boost, add your name to the media list for LA Fashion Week. For several days straight, you will get an e-mail every five minutes inviting you to fashion shows, meet-and-greets, after-parties — oh my! It’s so much fun. Yeeeeah, not really. (I get it! [...]

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Audrey magazine’s 2nd annual fashion show took place on Friday night at the Petersen Automotive Museum. As one of L.A.’s ultimate Asian American events, it was filled with Crown Royal cocktails, “up and coming” celebs and hours of shameless picture-taking. I couldn’t have asked for anything more.

Here’s me with cutie patootie Aaron Yoo of “Disturbia.”

“Survivor” [...]

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Two stories by yours truly:
All-American Icon: Discovering the many dimensions of Margaret Cho
Finger Lickin’ Good: Move over, Colonel Sanders. There’s a new type of KFC in town and it ain’t from Kentucky. KoreAm bites into the pipin’ hot trend of Korean fried chicken.

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I did it.
This morning, I got to work, replied to some e-mails and then relocated my notes, my laptop and myself to the conference room.
I did not bring the ethernet cord.
This is a monumental step for me. For the past many, many months, I have been a slave to the Internet. Namely, [...]

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A Korean lady scrubbed my nipples!
This weekend was much too eventful for me to describe in detail, so I will leave you with that. More to come once I get over the trauma of being trapped in a room full of middle-aged vee-jay-jays (EEK! MY EYES!)
Happy Labor Day!

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And just because I haven’t been vain enough lately, I urge y’all to pick up the latest issue of Audrey magazine. Yes, yours truly is the smokin’ model on page — Ha! You really think I memorized the page number? — *cough*twenty-five*cough.* I’m not a huge fan of the outfit (that sheer potato sack [...]

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It’s been more than a month since this story ran, and since then, there’s been some good news. However, the family is still searching for a bone marrow match, so please register at an upcoming donor drive if you can.

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Wish you were there.
I’m back from Miami. I don’t know what to think about that city. Stroll through South Beach and you’ll find storefronts that ooze with tackiness (think tube tops adorned with rhinestone-encrusted pythons — shiver), nightclubs that rape your wallet ($20 cover charges and $15 drinks — on Tuesdays), throngs of Puerto [...]

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I want to update this thing regularly. I really do. But, as always, laziness overcomes me. For the past few weeks, my brain has been on cruise control. I don’t think I’ll ever come to terms with the fact that we no longer get summer vacations. I mean, come on. All I need are three [...]

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Two new stories added: Crossing The Line, an in-depth feature on Korean American transgender people; and Exploring The Shame, an examination of the apologies expressed by the Korean community in the days following the Virginia Tech tragedy.
I gladly accept fan mail.

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