kev/null » littleyellowdifferent http://kevnull.com Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:34:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 For the Chinese in You http://kevnull.com/2006/04/for-the-chinese-in-you.html http://kevnull.com/2006/04/for-the-chinese-in-you.html#comments Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:39:16 +0000 Kevin Cheng http://kevnull.com/2006/04/for-the-chinese-in-you.html Late last year, Yahoo! gave out jackets for their annual gift. Even though the jackets weren’t exactly stylin’, everyone still lines up for it because – it’s free. Ernie pointed out that it’s especially bad if you’re Chinese. It’s genetically implanted in us to go for the free stuff, even if we really don’t give a crap about it and have no use for it (my jacket is still in my cube and has not been worn once). So for those of you with Chinese freebie instincts, you’ll love Freebie Finder.

]]> http://kevnull.com/2006/04/for-the-chinese-in-you.html/feed 0 Fray Cafe 6 – Tales of Immigration Officials http://kevnull.com/2006/03/fray-cafe-6-tales-of-immigration-officials.html http://kevnull.com/2006/03/fray-cafe-6-tales-of-immigration-officials.html#comments Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:57:21 +0000 Kevin Cheng http://kevnull.com/2006/03/fray-cafe-6-tales-of-immigration-officials.html Min Jung convinced me to partake in her upcoming Lap-Pop event. It’s supposed to be a convergence of Asian Americans and geekery, hosted by Locus Arts. The idea is to get some Asian American bloggers/photologgers to share their writing, art, photography and/or music. The first one was excellent and featured readings from Ernie, Glenda and music from Annie Lin – a hard show to follow (especially being Asian Canadian and all).

When asked if there was anything I’d like to do for 5-8 minutes, I figured the truly interesting and rather unique anecdotes in my blog all revolved around my interactions with immigration officials through my travels.

During SxSW, I heard about Fray Cafe, which is the live version of Fray (now on hiatus). It’s an open mic held annually where participants told true stories for 5mins each. Glenda did one last year about how she met Flavor Flav. So in addition to getting Nicole to tell her excellent story on getting married, I figured I may as well use this as an opportunity to do a warm up for Lap-Pop. How was I supposed to know that my friend Leslie would be recording it?

Next time: less German story, more on the asshole US INS one.

]]> http://kevnull.com/2006/03/fray-cafe-6-tales-of-immigration-officials.html/feed 0 A Blog Gameshow http://kevnull.com/2001/07/faskinating-a-blog-gameshow-sorta.html http://kevnull.com/2001/07/faskinating-a-blog-gameshow-sorta.html#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2001 09:34:48 +0000 Kevin Cheng http://kevnull.com/?p=37 Faskinating. A blog gameshow sorta Survivor-ish but it uses the web. One contestant (the puppet) does not exist. One other contestant (the puppetmaster) is making up the text for the puppet. Other contestants try to figure out who’s real and who’s not at PuppetMaster – HQ.

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