Justronomy

Status: psss...Mission Control...over

Activity: Around the World in 33 days
Location: NIPPON here i come
Description:
July 4th: Palm Springs -> New York
July 24th: New York -> London
August 6th: London -> Tokyo?

Join me and Jules Verne on our magic carpet ride.

Dave Chappelle's Block Party

The other day, I checked out Block Party. It's about Dave Chappelle's journey of hosting a concert (aka a Block Party) in Brookyln. I really admire Dave Chappelle's courage to divert from the mainstream and keeping things real. Watching this movie has stirred a lot of thoughts in me about rap, race and good ole American values of cherishing human relationships.

Rap, It's not all about angry vulgar music. Granted Dead Prez was an exception, look at Fugees, Jill Scott, Mos Def, John Legend, Talib Kweli. The music talent and poetic verse they bring are hands down amazing. Race, we live in a country, where there are a certain tendencies to brush over the inequalities and injustices that occur and things seem all peachy. We've focused so much attention on the war and immigration policies recently. We're also polarized with bipartisian politics and diverted our attention from promoting a happier world around us. Look at the movie 'Crash.' Because of our own individuals sterotypes and ignorance of each other, the tragedies which occured surmounted to hurt those around us. Why can't we just get along? That brings us to cherishing human values. With all the hustle and bustle, I believe we have forgotten the magical touch of Midas (yeah a bit unnecessary and off track, but I couldn't help it =P). But seriously, I have this gut feeling that we've become so overwhelmed with our job, studies and personal agendas that we've forgotten about others. Yea, there was something warm about watching the Drumeline college kids kickin it with Dave and Wyclef. Yeah no doubt, why can't we get along? We all mess up sometimes and in the movie Pras Michel from the Fugees said it so eloquently 'To err is human, to forgive is divine'.

Resilience

No pain, no gain.

Confucious says ... you go to jail bad boy.

Real Ninjas are too kool for skool

It's a hilarious video on Naruto. Brought to you by youtube.

Great Economic Humor

At Columbia Business School, a group called Follies made a hilarious video, where a strikingly similar looking business school Dean Glenn Hubbard sings a rendition of Sting's 'I'll be Missing You.' I can smell the bitterness over Benny taking the seat of the Fed Chair from Dean Hubbard.

Dance Video Update

Howdie. Since I graduated, the videos I've been hosting on my college space will no longer be there. I've transfered onto youtube (great site). Check them out.
DS Spring 2006 - Gossip Folk
DS Fall 2005 - Bananas
DS Fall 2005 - Sway
ONiB 2005 - Tricky
DS Fall 2004 - Gotta Get this Started
DS Fall 2004 - The Next Station - Rhythm Nation
DS Spring 2004 - Hey Mama

Graduation Pix

Graduation was an amazing unforgettable experience.
Check out the pix on flickr.

Apple and Nike at it

Wow. Nike and Apple are teaming up. Interesting. What are they gona do? A chip intergrated shoe that sends data to the nano. PLUS, software that tells you your exercising behavior. DAYEM. I like how two unlikely companies are teaming up to make something potentially cool and enchance our running experience.

First saw it on gizmodo. You should check out the Apple product page. The preview article.

ONiB 2006

Every spring a group on campus, Asian of Roots in Chinese Culture aka ARCC, puts on a culture show called One Night in Bejing, ONiB. I was in last year for a dance and a friend asked me if I would do the show. It was pretty fun. Check out the pictures. =).
Pic 1. Pic 2 . Pix from the show.

Phew...Touche CMU

Stretching it to the end, I'm finally done as of this blog entry! Let it sink in. What a relief~.

One Night in Bejiing 2005 - Tricky

A performance I was in last April (2005). I had a blast being in this dance.
Click here to view the video.

Florida State capital building

My friend Azim 'mentioned that the Florida state capitol building in Tallahassee looks like a giant phallic symbol. So I thought that I would show you a picture.
It's pretty funny...'

DC weekend and Spring Break Pictures

This weekend was nice to get my mind off things. I really enjoyed my time in DC.

I've posted pix from spring break as well.

DC
Spring Break

Anish Dhingra

As I was reading through my cousin's blog, I cannot come to terms for the loss of Anish.

In elementary school, he got me hooked to comics and helped me pick out my first comic book purchase. I won't forget the countless Tetris battles with the cousins at my house. Or the traditional video game bouts every Christmas. I remember we spent Xmas at Excalibar in Vegas and Anish/Rej brought their Sega Gensis and we played until dawn of Toejam and Earl.

During middle school, I felt out of loop when Phil and Anish were together doing eXscape, IRC and online gameplay. Whenver I visited Anish, I always appreciated Anish's willingness and kind heart to show me something techie cool and open my eyes.

During high school, we were slowly growing apart, but I do remember the time the Anish tried to help me setup a date with a cute Indian girl from Temple City.

Overall, I always looked up to Anish's entrepreneurial flair and admired his ambituous spirit. He was the cousin with a good heart and uncanny sense of humor. I will truly miss him.