We'll begin in this blogging community by introducing ourselves.
Name: Jennifer Thackston Johnson-Cooper
Year in School: Recent Ph.D. Graduate (that would be year 11 since high school)
Major: Asian Languages and Cultures, with a concentration in Modern Chinese Literature
Three Interesting Things About Me:
1. I live in Long Beach with a husband and two cats (who, appropriate to my geekiness level are named Imoen--after the character in the video game Baldur's Gate--and Trillion--after the character in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).
2. I love the TV show Glee and I have all installments of the soundtrack.
3. Teaching this course is my last hurrah at UCLA--in the fall I'm moving to Dallas to begin a tenure-track position at Austin College.
For your first blog post, please reply to this posting with all of the above information. Your response will a) allow everyone to know you better and b) make sure that your permissions are set correctly to allow you to post.
Cheers!
Name: JIHAE JANG
ReplyDeleteYear in School: SENIOR
Major: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Three Interesting Things About Me:
1.I am an international student from South Korea and i can speak Korean, English, intermediate Japanese. Want to learn chinese !
2. I live near school (Hilgard+Weybern) with my small puppy "CHOCO" who is only 2months old (schnauzer)
3. I love chinese food (Panda Express, PF Chang)
I can't eat raw food(sushi, fish...) but i like to go to japanese restaurant :P
Allan Hu
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Senior
1. I also live in Long Beach! Snoop dogg! I love second street.
2. I race bikes
3. I love a good red wine, and a wheaty beer.
Daniel Lee
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Senior
1. I live in Koreatown with my parents.
2. I am currently watching the South Korea world cup game while writing this blog!
3. I always wikipedia movies before I watch them.
Jesslyn Kwong
ReplyDeleteDouble major in International Development Studies and Chinese
Post-4th year, finishing up my degrees over the summer
Interesting facts:
1. I lived in Shanghai for two years in high school
2. My family is scattered all across the world: my oldest brother is in China, my other brother in Boston, my sister in Boston, and my parents in Norcal
3. I love reading and writing and as such, have bravely endeavored to write an original novel, but alas, though I'm fairly certain I've begun close to thirty stories, I've never finished any.
Jacky Chang-Kuon
ReplyDeleteMajor in International Economics with emphasis in South America
Senior
Interesting facts:
1. I was born and raised in Peru for 18 years before coming to the US for college and lived in China, GuangDong, area for year when I was 11.
2. I speak Spanish and English fluently; and Mandarin and Cantonese in a basic conversational level.
3. I have been to three of the New Seven Wonders of the World: Machu Picchu in Peru, Christ the Redeemer in Brazil and the Great Wall of China; only four to go!!
Daniel Wu
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Senior
1. My home is San Francisco.
2. I took three years of Chinese-Mandarin at UCLA.
3. I enjoy listening to Jay Chou, but I have a tough time understanding what he's singing.
Harry Li
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Major: Asian Humanities (concentration on China)
1. I love Hispanic culture + language, but I do not like their food.
2. I am an only child.
3. I'm scared of spiders.
Name: Joyce Chu
ReplyDeleteYear in School: 3rd year going into 4th year
Major: Major in Psychology
Three Interesting Things About Me:
1. I was born and raised in Taipei for 18 years before coming to university
2. I don't go to UCLA- I am a student at the University of British Columbia in Canada
3. I wasn't born in Shanghai.... but my dad is Shanghainese!
Name: S hakei b S iddi q
ReplyDeleteYear in School: 4th year
Major: International Development Studies
Three Interesting Things About Me:
1. I like to read...
2. I am an only child
3. I think Jessalyn and I should work on a novel together, or a short story... :)
Name: Nan Shan
ReplyDeleteYear in School: 4th, graduate by this summer.
Major: Biology
Three Interesting Things About Me:
1.Chinese is mother language.
2. My favorite director is 张艺谋 (zhang yi mou)
3. I will go to visit ShangHai Expo this fall.
Name: Ruibo (Ruby) Zhang
ReplyDeleteYear in School: 4th year
Major: Biology; Minor: Asian Languages
Three Interesting Things About Me:
1.I am an only child
2.I will go back to Shanghai this summer (after this class) and I will visit World Expo.
3.I love to watch Chinese movies and dramas.
Name: Charlie Underhill
ReplyDeleteYear: 4th
Major: Economics/International Area Studies (focus on China)
Minor: Geography
Three Interesting Things About Me:
1. I play the Tenor Sax in the UCLA Marching Band
2. I'm obsessed with the TV series, House :)
3. I'm reteaching myself Chinese 1-3 this summer. Whee!
Name: Minhwan An (Hwanny An)
ReplyDeleteYear: class of 2010
Major: East Asian Studies
Three Interesting Things About Me:
1. I'm an international student who came from South Korea
2: I really want to be fluent at Chinese, but it is hard to speak since I'm learning English at the same time.
3: Love sports & music!!
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ReplyDeleteName: Jiye Kim
ReplyDeleteYear: Class of 2010
Major: East Asian Studies in China
Three interesting things about Me:
1. I'm addicted to American reality tv shows ever since I came to the States. I found myself watching "The Real housewives of New Jersey" all over again at 2am.
2. While driving, I add every number of the license plate of a car in front of me, and see if it is perfectly divided by 3 (see if the remainder is zero).
3. I love history. I felt breathtaking sensation when I found Korean history book in Korean language at East Asian Library.
Thanks!
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ReplyDeleteName: Jay Chang
ReplyDeleteYear: Senior
Major: Japanese and Linguistics
Three interesting things about me:
1. My dad is from Guangzhou and my mom is from Nanjing but I grew up in California
2. I speak English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, and want to learn Korean
3. I just woke up from a nap to write this
Name: Victor Yee
ReplyDeleteYear: post-4th
Majors: Neuroscience & Asian American Studies
Interesting things:
1. I play table tennis (but not very good at it).
2. I currently do neurodevelopmental imaging research on-campus.
3. I'm currently living in the Sawtelle (i.e. near Volcano Tea) area.
Name: Herman Wong
ReplyDeleteYear in School: Grad Student
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Three Interesting Things About Me:
1. I like dark chocolate
2. I like watching Fox TV shows even though story lines or acting are cheesy and exaggerated (House, Hell's Kitchen, Glee, etc.)
3. I've been keeping up with the world cup, but I am not rooting for anyone team in particular.
Name:Elaine Shengya Hu
ReplyDeleteYear: Senior? i kinda graduated..
Major: Fine Arts
Three interesting about me,
1.I am a geek and i love geeks
2. when i eat a bowl of rice, i would start eating only the center, make a hole then eat the whole thing.
3. I m going to direct a feature film this summer.
Alexander Yu
ReplyDeleteClass of '11
International Economics w/ Specialization in Computing
1. I'm testing to see if i can post to blog
2. I coach UCLA Dragon Boat
3. I like to swim
Name: Danni
ReplyDeleteYear: going to be a 4th year.
Major: Global Studies +East Asian+public policy minor
Interesting things:
1. I love coffee so much to a point that I decided to work at a coffee shop. (westwood It's a Grind)
2. I love blueberries. I can eat a pound of it a day.
3. I don't eat red meat. not for health reasons, but i was raised that way.
4. I look girlier now, but before I came to the states, I was a total tomboy.
Name: Evelyn Hung
ReplyDeleteYear: Class of 2011
Major: International Development Studies
Minor: Education Studies
3 Interesting things about me:
1. I'm going abroad to Spain next fall!
2. I am obsessed with Disneyland/world/everything
3. My birthday is on Halloween :)
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