February 2012
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10 Lessons Jeremy Lin Can Teach Us →
(Click on the headline)
I’ve been JLin fan since the summer league where he battled to find a position into the NBA. His relentless pursuit for what he wanted no matter the alternatives is a inspiration. He could of done anything with a Harvard degree in economics, he was offered a contract to play for Yao Ming’s team but still, he struggled and slept on other people couches just to...
Goodbye Speech
Goodbye speeches are funny because goodbyes represent a hault to people’s relationship and I’ve come to realize that people interconnectedness is so much more fluid then just now or never but its every constant and ever changing. I worked with people in my agency that I never talk to but I’ve always connected with them because of the deep respect that I have for them as people and community...
Travel Log from the Philippines Part 5
Aug 14
Swimming on the morning beach/ Headed to Ariel’s Point by Majestic Boat
Our local friends: Inad and DaO
Theme of the day @ Ariel’s Point: All you can…
…eat
…drink
…high dive
…snorkel
…pee&drink sum mo…laugh…make friends…meet locals…dance on a boat…knock the F out!
Wake up to Club Paraw (Sailboat) + 2 dollar Rum and Coke + T-Shirt stripping + random photos with...
January 2012
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UC Davis APILR Workshop Description
Workshop Agenda UC Davis Asian Pacific Islander Leadership Retreat
February 4th, 2012
Workshop 4 Block: 7:00-8:15PM
“Reclaim Stories/ Reclaim Self”- Spoken Word/ Poetry Workshop
By Fong Tran
Description: “We are the descendants of soldiers and survivors/ our bloodlines run deep like the majestic Mekong river/ our histories rise high like the mountains of the Hmong/ and our strength is buried in...
Gaby Foundation Speech
Gaby Foundation Speech
January 28, 2012 Sacramento City Hall
The Gaby Foundation is a great organization that invests in youth organizers that write project proposals around initiatives that make our communities live more well. There were some projects on urban garden renewal, children fitness programs, cross campus friendship games, and so much. Most importantly these beautiful ideas transform...
Happy Lunar New Years
Happy Lunar New Years! Chuc Mung Nam Moi It’s a time to celebrate and humble ourselves in our richness my mom wishes for long fortune and good luck this year I’m just wondering if her red envelope has 50 or 5 bucks cause I’m need help I is hella broke this year being a youth counselor is awesome but working nonprofit is not the most highest paying career I love the time of a year it’s...
November 2011
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Shopping for tomatoes (Full Poem)
She moved from impoverish countrysides tricked into the mainland
On one-way tickets of misleaded lies
Where she was told she could make
Money as a waitress
Old village princess that once lived
Has now died
The long debt she has to pay off
To man that smuggled her, her pimp is a race with no finish lines
As she marathon under men’s bodies
She just lies there tries not think about it, mindless,...
eeuphoriaa: Nazi Cruelty? →
touchetee:
I was appalled after watching a video of a policeman pepper spraying students on campus that was recorded on Friday, November 18, 2011. Later that night, Chancellor Katehi sent an electronic letter to the UC Davis community regarding the incident. She stated the cops were called into the…
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Shopping for tomatoes part 2
I once walk Thailand Streets
Seeing women make lunch lines waiting
Cover spectrum of white man eyes looked down upon, its animal feed, degrading
Superimposed sexual stances of mini-skirt naked thighs
Turning forward then back at man will
Needing for this man’s money
So today
She takes this man’s fill
Thai women forced packaged input
To put out
Through man’s machine
...
Shopping for tomatoes part 1
The long debt she has to pay off
To man that smuggled her, her pimp is a race with no finish lines
As she marathon under men’s bodies
She just lies there tries not think about it, mindless, zombie
grips the ends of bed sheets like she grips the end of a rock cliffs
with her life
only thinking fighting for food on family tables
poverty stricken farmers, no income able
but she works, she...
October 2011
3 posts
Poet Feature: "Crazy, right?" by Dora Vang
Here’s a young poet and friend of one of my closest students who past almost a year ago due to a drive by. Thank you Dora for keeping his memory and the lessons he taught us all alive.
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One year, In just five days.
Crazy, right?
You...
Why I'm still a mentor
“Damn, as I was reminiscing this past summer… I had a hell-of-a time. I’ve never had this much fun and happiness since… I don’t even remember. :/ Now I’m going to be moving in two weeks just when I started to get used to everybody and everything. I’m going to miss everybody here especially my peeps from ARI, BCC, YouthRISE, HWHA, friends at McClatchy and...
September 2011
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WatchThis only makes me hate Maywheather even more. Homie KO’d Ortiz at moment of weakness when he left his guard down but as much I didn’t want it to happen it, Ortiz should of known better. Win still goes to Maywheather so somebody needs to lay homie out!! PACQUIAO!!
gotemcoach:
MUST WATCH: Mayweather’s Cheap Shot
What you don’t see or hear in this video is legendary boxing trainer,...
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August 2011
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Travel Log from the Philippines Part 4
Aug 12
Tagaytay Tour – beautiful landscapes, pineapple fields/zip lining
Best Philipino Dinner EVER!
Horse back riding on Samantha my white stallion aka pale donkey
Buko Bie made of heaven and Casava Cake/ Rested/ Epic Text Rid’N
Going bananas on the town venturing to three different clubs on 5HR energy: 7th Height/ Rooftop Penthouse Function/ Makati Club & Quyen killing it on center...
Solo Performance
Time 07 September · 19:30 - 22:00
Location CounterPULSE 1310 Mission Street
More infoWORDS FIRST: a solo performance showcase Produced and curated by: Thao P. Nguyen and Vanessa Alabarces http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/181784 … WORDS FIRST is a monthly series featuring a rotating cast of Bay Area solo stars. Each performance showcases a...
Travel Log from the Philippines Part 3
Aug 9 Communist Infiltration Craziness/ Visit Palawan Refugee Camps/ Viet Village (Story featured in previous blog)/ Mission 20 Luggages/ Makati Pimp Pad House
“Truth Comes Out” Banana Leaf Dinner
Epic Night of Absinthe – Kissing Game
Taxi gets lost in Red Light District/ Cheap Hotel
Aug 10 Glorietta Mall – Unlock Phone Finally/ Pimp Pad
Massage in Malate/ Korean BBQ...
honest
response: if everything is a constant and the power of the mind can create all possibility - isn’t reality and concept both the same
q-ed:
do you know yourself well? or do you know too well the concept of yourself you wish to be?
Travel Log from the Philippines Part 2
Aug 6 Art as Activism/ Charity 2.0 Workshop
Getting ready for “Tweet to Talk” Scavenger Hunt
Riding HELLA hard in a JeepNey of the Philippines
Spoken Word @ Gala w/ Nam-An
Banging Club Dance by DJ Cuong – broke many people off including Kristina Sa with Vuong Nguyen/ Strip Signs Game in Jeepney/ Bomb ass Congee by mama Quoc
Failed Pool Swimming/ Suceeded Naked Rain...
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Travel Log from the Philippines Part 1
Aug 3 Missed the flight I was suppose to be on – travel agent called and I was FML Status
Lead a dope “Tree of Life” Activity during Youth Access Lounge
Busted a spoken word piece at Women’s Civic Improvement Club (WCIC) “Poetry Nite”
Dropped off by Vicki Vang at SFO after some Berkeley “House of Curries”
Aug 4 G6’ing off to Tai Pei and coincidentally met with Khanh...
Four Levels of HomeLess Huy
while sorting things out at the Palawan Airport, Huy got a little desperate….a little to a lot….check it
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Speech to Legislative Hearing for Innovative... →
My name is Fong Tran and I’m the Youth Specialist of Asian Resources. I have the privilege of helping young people find employment, access college and training, and foster leadership. I’m a graduate from the University of California, Berkeley and received my degree in Social Welfare and doubled minor in education and public policy. I grew up in a Vietnamese refugee family raised by 4 siblings and...
Access Now! - Dedicated to DH6
By Fong Tran
Featuring Nam-An Hoang Dinh
August 19, 2011
Once upon a Vietnam War single mother of three left rice paddles and fabric patches for dream escapes to land of golden arches with babies on her back she left on Oregon trails with no reset buttons as she trekked through miles of flooded land mine terrain hidden camflouage of blackness in the midnight she quietly evades the...
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
sapphrikah:
zeitgeistmovement:
The ruling elite have created social institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance.
I remember when I realized this. Oh how they have subdues us with materialization and other distractions. Go somewhere like France or look at the revolutions going on across North Africa/the middle east, that’s...
