Beyond the Rhetoric

Many of us are inclined to call it Chinese New Year, but it’s really more appropriate to call it Lunar New Year. After all, several other cultures aside from Chinese celebrate it. I’ve always grown up romanizing the phrase as Gung Hay Fat Choy, but you might see it elsewhere written as Kung Hei Fat [...]

An interested topic was raised during last week’s Dot Com Pho that never made it into the video. Aaron Koo reminded all of us that morals and ethics are all subjective, because being ethical simply means staying true to your values. We all may beg to differ, but based on this definition, Aaron stated that [...]

I am Canadian. It is very much a part of who I am and how I choose interact with the world. This blog post might have been more appropriate for Canada Day, but the idea didn’t really dawn on me at the time. Oh well. Growing up, I watched a lot of television. A good [...]

Now that I’ve been over in Taiwan three times, I’d like to think that I know a thing or two about Taipei. On the flip side, I was born and raised in Vancouver and this city will remain my home for the foreseeable future. Both cities have a lot to offer, but they are certainly [...]

One of the biggest reasons why I love Vancouver is its ethnic diversity and its embracing of this ethnic diversity. We have restaurants featuring cuisine from all around the world and festivals to celebrate these different cultures too. Such was the case yesterday when I took in the sights and sounds at Greek Day Vancouver [...]