The Disobedient Son

kettlebell WOD

2009-05-13T17:58:00.003-04:00

Thought it might be nice to log my kettlebell workouts here. If I become a coach I could pull some of these up for routines.Today's workout, double kettlebells (2KB)5 rounds of5x kb pushup to clean5x push press5x renegade row each hand5x double swingrest 2 minutes between each round. performed with 2x28kg bells which i consider slightly heavy for me.

Are Women Oppressed in the Weight Room?

2009-05-12T14:49:00.009-04:00

"Strong women run in the family." my mother loves to boast. I was, knowing my mother and grandmother, inclined to believe her. My mother is a woman who is not afraid of being honest with people about what she thinks, and this is a quality I have been raised to respect. I never saw the appeal that some people do in "submissive" girlfriends whose every wish was your command. Just as I try to

good day

2009-05-03T12:24:00.003-04:00

So that was a hiatus, huh? I guess I just took some time to decompress after finals. Between being angry and stressed I had a decent amount to write about, and now I'm going to have to learn how to write when the good times are rolling.Anyway, the best birthday greeting I got was easily this:HEY 21 now the HELL DOORS are open for youWish you lot of sex, drugs and rock n hopbut be aware of the

Weighty Ounces

2009-04-24T04:01:00.003-04:00

Tues: Chinese Final ExamWed: Chinese Oral PresentationThurs: EC 11 Final Exam, EC 60 Midterm which will be a final if I get a BFri: First Draft of PS 128 paper due. 7.5/10 pages currently written.ALMOST THERE. EC 11 did not go as well as I had hoped, but at this point I'll take the grade. A B in that class will be enough to make me happy. Killed the EC 60 midterm though! I'm confident I won't

Martin Luther Keezy

2009-04-23T11:47:00.001-04:00

I have just improved your lives by an order of 10^3. Now excuse me while my brain bleeds out through my nose.Aside, anyone at Tufts want to catch Children of Invention? Showing tomorrow night at the Somerville Theatre.

Getting There

2009-04-21T22:10:00.002-04:00

Tues: Chinese Final ExamWed: Chinese Oral PresentationThurs: EC 11 Final Exam, EC 60 Midterm which will be a final if I get a BFri: First Draft of PS 128 paper due. 0/10 pages currently written.Striking the oral presentation too because I just wrote it. Huzzah! I guess the biggest reason I'm taking Chinese now is not to be able to converse fluently in Chinese, but more because of the thrill I get

A Predictable Response

2009-04-21T11:07:00.006-04:00

I cracked open today's copy of the Tufts Daily and couldn't help myself. The number and nature of the op-eds tell me that the process of ending racism on this campus is going to be long and hard, and many people are going to oppose me and my friends. Long entries to resume once the week is over, but for now, here's a video you might enjoy:The size is weird but the sound is more important. Just

Pause

2009-04-20T23:50:00.002-04:00

This week is going to be ridiculously busy, so I might be quiet for a while.Tues: Chinese Final ExamWed: Chinese Oral PresentationThurs: EC 11 Final Exam, EC 60 Midterm which will be a final if I get a BFri: First Draft of PS 128 paper due. 0/10 pages currently written.Only upside to all of this is I'll be pretty much done by the time Ludacris gets here for Spring Fling!Today was rather good in a

Towards True Constructive Discourse

2009-04-19T16:42:00.005-04:00

The following is a copy of a letter that I sent to members of the Tufts administration. Certain names have been omitted for the purpose of privacy.________________________________________________________Dear all,Earlier today, my friend sent you a letter in which she detailed how because of her speech and her history of activism at Tufts, she has received verbal personal attacks from anonymous

Generation

2009-04-17T23:37:00.002-04:00

Today is the second day of Telescope weekend at Tufts. Telescope is officially described as a "program for students of color, first generation college students, students from rural or low income areas, and other students interested in diversity." In practice, it's where high school seniors who have already been admitted to Tufts get to come to the University to visit and have the time of their

Sanctuary

2009-04-17T17:55:00.003-04:00

I had a conversation with a friend last night about what my goals in doing all this rallying, activism, and being angry. Truth is, for a long time I wasn't sure of the best way to articulate them. It's not ultimately to make America as a country better, this is not my country and I have another one to worry about. It's not out of whining about Asian victimhood or some twisted sense of Asian

hasta la victoria siempre

2009-04-16T20:50:00.004-04:00

In case some of you aren't already aware, I was on a committee that helped organize a rally at Tufts today. Back in high school, I never seriously figured myself becoming the noisy activist type. I always thought I'd go through college being thirsty all the time, just getting drunk and getting Tang (hahaha, wordplay!). In college for my first two years I spent more time dicking around than I'd

A Thirsty Victim

2009-04-15T02:05:00.003-04:00

This is the OpEd I submitted to the Tufts Daily in response to this column by Will Ehrenfeld. Let the flaming begin._________________________________________________________A Thirsty VictimBy Robert Siy Before I begin, let me say that I have not taken Race in America with Jean Wu. I have never before college lived in America, I wouldn’t even say that I identify as Asian American. But as an Asian

Until Proven Guilty

2009-04-14T12:01:00.004-04:00

Really busy day today, but I just learned that the student accused in this bias incident is taking steps towards legal action. Against my friends whom he attacked, spit on, and degraded. Now he's saying he was the victim of a brutal beatdown by a gang of vindictive Koreans.This just keeps getting better and better. The possibility that this kid can walk away without so much as a disciplinary

An Asian in America

2009-04-13T10:09:00.005-04:00

"An Asian in America", unwieldy as the statement might be, is how I have decided to characterize myself in the grand cultural milieu of the United States.I am, for all technical and legal definitions, an American, a citizen of the United States just as anyone born and raised from New York to Los Angeles, Seattle to Miami, from New Mexico to North Dakota and everywhere in between. My parents, like

Judge a singer by her cover?

2009-04-12T10:02:00.004-04:00

Embedding disabled by request. But fuckdammit, watch this.Susan Boyle. Unemployed, lives with cats, never been kissed. And she will bring tears to your eyes and restore your faith in humanity."Stupendous": British for "fucking awesome"Easter Sunday, the day of the resurrection and the life. What a day to see a video like this and have my world turned... I wouldn't call it turned upside down

Vino Veritas (my arguments on the KSA bias incident summarized)

2009-04-11T17:15:00.005-04:00

Been doing a lot of writing on this facebook group regarding a particularly nasty incident that my friends were unfortunately involved in. Two days ago I wrote about my initial reactions, but now that I've been engaged in a healthy amount of discussion with a number of people I'm just going to paraphrase/plagiarize myself for this entry.First of all, the people who are accusing the fraternity

Whites of Their Eyes

2009-04-10T16:32:00.002-04:00

Me: Asian male, 20, 5'9" 180 lbs. Athletic build, buzz cut, barely detectable stubble. Single.You: Asian female, likely 18-19, around 5'6", I'd hazard to say 125 but that's me being generous, and you'll find I'm very generous. Slim, shoulder-length black hair with brown streaks, cute smile. Very visibly taken, but only visibly.We were both walking on Professors Row - me walking back to Metcalf

Race to the Bottom

2009-04-09T20:55:00.003-04:00

Don't worry, this isn't a Chip Tsao post. But this is going to be about race, so you can skip to yesterday or tomorrow if you don't want to hear about it.I think I became conscious of race when I went over to a friend's house to do homework back in grade school. I couldn't have been older than ten at the time, and I was, in ways, a concentrated version of the man I was going to be - bouncing and

Always Someone Better

2009-04-08T23:16:00.002-04:00

Just when I thought I was so good that Chip Tsao should pay me to be his public apologist, Conrado de Quiros goes and says it better than me:We haven’t just become a nation of servants, we’ve become a nation of illiterates.Bobo raw tayong lahat. I'd like to see the Philippine government put this bastard on a blacklist.

Wait till you see how I "spray currency"

2009-04-08T21:58:00.003-04:00

Any port in a storm, any storm in a recession.Nigerian president makes it rain, gets in trouble. Yahoo news fails for not actually making a reference!I have this friend whose girlfriend used to work at a strip club (as a hostess she says, but frankly I couldn't care less) but anyway, I asked her if people actually make it rain in clubs, and I was surprised to find out that this is actually common

"There was one true Christian, and he died on the cross."

2009-04-06T14:03:00.003-04:00

Can America still be called a "Christian Nation"? Robert Meacham examines."Christian Nation", by the way, is one of those terms that makes me bristle, and I bristle especially hard because of the fact that the Philippines, my home country is often itself characterized as a Christian nation. In Catholic high school, my teachers (not just my religion teachers) would boast with pride of the fact

Folly of Youth

2009-04-04T20:57:00.003-04:00

Volunteered for Kids Day today. The way this works is that my uni sets up a carnival-like atmosphere around the school so that the children of faculty and staff can come and have a good time playing with college kids, and we (supposedly) have a great time volunteering and chilling out with some neat grade schoolers. Or something like that.Job involved running around after ten seven-year olds from

O Prodigal Sun

2009-04-03T23:03:00.002-04:00

New day, new entry. I'm not sure whether I should consider this the true "inaugural post" of this blog since the first two were really just my soapboxing. I'm going to take a tip from one of my favorite bloggers, Christian (Not Safe For Work!!) and stick to one entry a day. Exactly one. No more, no less.Why? I think one's a good number, it makes sure I've got some content coming out every day,

A (Somewhat) Indecent Proposal?

2009-04-02T20:21:00.007-04:00

Those of you up to no good, I've got some deleterious reading for you today (Thank you, commenter #4!). So if you have about half an hour to burn (it need not be a full block, you can read bits and pieces from a window you minimize at work), I invite you to digest:A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan SwiftOf course, you might find that you'll need a few more minutes to fully appreciate the intricate