June 4, 2002

Thursday of course is the 6th of June. Learn more at http://www.dday.co.uk/ and http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/

World Cup Websites, Korea: http://www.2002worldcupkorea.org/; Japan: http://www.jawoc.or.jp/

APEX events

MISSION STATEMENT:

Promote full utilization of the capabilities of the Enterprise's employees and champion the betterment of the company and community. Promote interest in Asian Pacific issues and culture and act as a bridge to all groups within our community.

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ed. by Douglas Ikemi

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The internet site is back at:

Our own domain name, apa-pro.org, stands for Asian Pacific American Professionals. www.apa-pro.org/ gives you a menu of AP organization websites.

Back issues of the newsletter for all of 2000, 2001, and 2002 are available on the website if you want to look up some past event.

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APPA Board Meeting Schedule for 2002:

Evening meetings will be at the Hilton Garden Inn, 2100 Mariposa Ave.(corner of Nash)310/726-0100. Noon time meetings will be on Raytheon premises

Schedule for 2002:

June 13 (Th) at 12 pm

July 10 (W) at 6 pm

Aug. 13 (Tu) at 12 pm

Sept. 11 (W) at 6 pm

Oct. 10 (Th) at 12 pm

Nov. 13 (W) at 6 pm

Detailed calendar is attached this week and is available on the internet at www.apa-pro.org in Acrobat and Excel formats. Events go into the calendar that I don't mention here. Please send in information on cultural events and news items. Thanks to those who have.

Long range calendar items:

June 12 APEX "Eastside" Mixer We're back to the San Gabriel Valley! This month's "Eastside" mixer reflects both our trek to Pasadena and the cuisine served at this new hot spot! Nonya is L.A.’s first Peranaken restaurant, named for the unfamiliar hot, spicy and culturally sophisticated cuisine known as Nonya. Singapore’s most indigenous cuisine combines Chinese, Malaysian and Indonesian ingredients. Set your calendars for a night of networking with other professionals and consider joining a committee or signing up for membership. Feel free to bring family, friends and associates. Nonya offers a wide variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks at their full bar. Complimentary appetizers. 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Business attire recommended. NONYA, 61 N. Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, CA, (626) 583-8398 Costs: FREE for members (or those who join that night)!, $5 for non-members, No RSVP required. Parking meters and valet service for a fee is available. Contact: Helen Hua (helen@apex.org) - Chair of Membership

June 15 APEX Museum and Fine Dining We will have Brunch at a Indian food Jaipur-style restaurant on the Westside. They have great buffet with many selections. After brunch, we are going to the Getty Center. We could carpool from the restaurant to the Getty Center and spend the afternoon there, seeing the different exhibits and going to the gardens. Please dress comfortably. Please R.S.V.P. with Hua Ling, Director of Cultural Affairs one week before the event. Hua Ling will send out detail information and direction the Wednesday before the event via e-mail. If you would like to carpool with someone, please give me your contact information and I will help you out one week before the event. Thank you, and I will see you soon. 11:00 a.m. Where: To be announced. Costs: Members: Free Non-Members: $5.00 per person. Brunch: ~$10-$15, Getty: Free.Getty parking: $5.00 Contact: Hua Ling, Director of Cultural Affairs, hua@apex.org, Pager: (310)669-1177, please input your phone number and press # sign

June 16 3rd Annual Monument Anniversary Celebration, 10AM, corner of Temple and Alameda, Little Tokyo, LA.

June 20 APEX Entrepreneur SIG: How to Start Your Own Business Ever thought about being your own boss? Have you considered starting your own business? If you said "yes," then join us for the first APEX Entrepreneur SIG! We will be having roundtable discussions over dinner with 1-2 speakers at each table rotating throughout the evening. This is an opportunity for people interested in starting their own business, law practice or medical practice to learn what steps are needed to get their idea/practice off the ground. 7:00pm - 10:00pm Where: Royal Star Seafood Restaurant, 3001 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90403 Costs: $16 for members, $20 for non-members Contact: Jenny Hsu at <mailto:jenny@firstyearprep.com>jenny@firstyearprep.com

June 23 AAPA Golf Tour a the Los Angeles Royal Vista Golf Course, 20055 E. Colina Roda, Walnut, 91789, WWW.LARV.COM. Tee time at 8:00 AM, $60.00 - includes 18 holes of golf w/ cart and prizes. Scoring Rules: Blind Callaway (check details at the tournament.) Maximum No. of Players is 30. Call Dan Poblete, 562-496-7458, Daniel.Poblete@west.boeing.com

June 29 Shasta Taiko & On Ensemble, 8PM, at the JACCC, $20

Aug 24-25, 2nd Annual US Sumo Open at UCLA, www.usasumo.com, 310-288-3641, afreund@ucla.edu

August 10 APEX Short Hiking Trip Saturday, For some strange reason, this is a really popular event. We have been to the same hike in Malibu Beach every year. First year, I had about 25 people show up. Second year, I had about 40 people show up and third year, I had about 70 people show up. Some came all the way from San Diego and Santa Barbara. Please let me know if you want to go to Griffith Park by Crystal Spring (all mountain with the view of Glendale and Burbank) or Malibu Beach (Great ocean view with light sand beach near Pepperdine University) by the first week of July. In Sierra Club rating, they are both "2". Thank you. Please R.S.V.P. with Hua Ling, Director of Cultural Affairs one week before the event. Hua Ling (hua@apex.org) will send out detail information and direction the Wednesday before the event via e-mail. If you would like to carpool with someone, please give me your contact information and I will help you out one week before the event. Thank you and I will see you soon. Members: Free, Non-Members: $5.00 per person

The Pacific Asia Museum (46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena, 91101, 626-449-2742) Family Festival schedule for 2002, Saturdays, 1-4:

June 15 Costumes of Pan Asia

July 20 Origami Festival

Aug. 17 Flavors of India

Sept. 21 Lacquer Ware of Myanmar

Oct. 19 Pakistan Festival

Nov. 16 Buddha: Faces of Enlightenment

Dec. 14 Pasko Sa Nayon

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June 5 YUKO MARUYAMA QUINTET at Catalina Bar & Grill,1640 North Cahuenga Boulevard, Hollywood 90028 (323) 466-2210 http://catalinajazzclub.com/ Reservations reservations@catalinajazzclub.com, tickets $15, shows at 8:30 and 10:30PM

June 8 Halau Keali'I O Nalani 11th Polynesian Dance, El Camino College, 3 & 7 PM, $15, call 310-479-6767

June 8 at the JANM Conversations with the Artists, In conjunction with the exhibition, C.O.L.A. 2002. The Municipal Art Gallery and the National Museum invite you to join us for an afternoon with exhibiting artists Margaret Honda, Hilja Keading, Cameron McNall, Alexis Smith and Daniel Wheeler. 1:30 PM http://www.janm.org/events/m_02-2.html

June 8 at the JANM In America’s Shadow Book Signing and Reading Join us as we celebrate the publication of In America’s Shadow, a groundbreaking and truly unique book for children by authors Kimberly Komatsu and Kaleigh Komatsu. In this deeply moving story set amidst the turbulence of World War II, a young girl and her grandfather leave everything behind and board a train bound for a place called Manzanar. They soon discover that their journey is more than a journey of place, it is a journey of the heart. An unforgettable and timeless story of the special bond shared between grandparent and grandchild. Reception to follow. 1:30 PM http://www.janm.org/events/m_02-2.html

June 9, 2 p.m.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
A native of Calcutta and long-time Bay Area resident, Divakaruni has for many years been involved in women’s’ issues, working with Afghani women refugees and in shelters for battered women. Moderator: Marisela Norte, poet and playwright Downtown LA Public Library, Mark Taper Auditorium * Richard J. Riordan Central Library, Reservations recommended, call (213) 228-7025, $8 – Single Program Tickets, www.lapl.org/events/wordofworld/index.html.

June 7,8,9 "Life of the Land" a Hawaii play by Edward Sakamoto at Japan America Theatre. For $20 group rate tickets, call Louise Sakamoto (310)327-3169

June 5 The Asian Buisness Association Valley Online will be co presenting a "Procurement Trade Fair and Workshops," at the Airtel Plaza Hotel in Van Nuys, CA. This half day trade fair and workshop will highlight purchasing managers from the networks: ABC CBS, NBC; studio: The Walt Disney Company, Universal Studios; Aerospace: Lockheed Martin; Northrop Grumman, The Boeing Company, General Dynamcis; Public Sector: MTA, DWP, MWD, City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles; Private Sector: Union Bank, Office Depot, LA Times, DMJM, Verizon to name a few. They are looking for professional services (legal,architects, engineering, web and graphic designer, consultants, IT, etc.), products (aerospace manufacturered goods, office supplies, photo supplies, electronic and computer, flowers, etc.), general contractors and trades to name a few. Adding it all up, it's more than $1B worth of contract opportunities. Workshops will support on how to do business with the exhibits and industry clusters. The ABA Valley Online Board of Directors have agreed to extend a special member fee of $10 advance registration until June 4, 2002. If you have any questions, please call David Iwata at (818)379-7000.

June 5 APEX Info Night - Bridging the Q&A Info Night is a series of quarterly sessions that made its debut last year. Members and non-members alike spend an evening getting to know the ABCs of APEX. Personal narratives and a visual presentation documents the organization's birth to its current success. Learn about programs that fuel our goals, meet board and committee members who dedicate their time, and discover new opportunities that have been making sounds in the forest. Reconnect with your motivation and join us for an informative night! 6:30 PM Refreshments and networking, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Info Night session L.A. Times Reception Lounge, 202 West First Street, Los Angeles, 90012. All guests are required to bring picture identification for entry into the building. Free parking at 213 South Spring Street. If parking is filled, please park at 220 S. Spring Street. Costs: Free for members and non-members. Drink service accommodations Contact: Capacity is limited to 50 people. Please RSVP to Helen Hua at helen@apex.org no later than Monday, June 3, 2002.

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I went to see the Once Upn a Time concert at the Zenshuji Soto Mission in Little Tokyo. This classical music recital in the setting of a Zen Buddhist temple was a little different , as one might expect from an event created by Cal Arts students. Although the violinist and pianist, Noriko Yamaga and Hiromi Maruyama were arrayed in typical formal wear for performing classical music, they were accompanied or interacted with a dramatic framework that included storytelling or a dramatic framework, courtesy of Hilario Saavedra. One sequence reminded me of the famous Peter and the Wolf Concert for Young People. The $10 donation included food at the following reception, so this was a really good deal.

I bicycled over to a Street Full of Tamales at MacArthur Park. This was a low key event, with the major attraction being street artists using chalk on a closed off section of 7th Street. I also learned about black bean tamales

After that I went to Oodles of Noodles in Torrance. I was really suprised by this event. Lots of people, cheap food ($5 worth of tickets was enough to kill you if you liked pasta) and incredible entertainment covering a lot of cultural bases. Make sure you go next year.

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OCA INTRODUCES VERIZON FOUNDATION COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP

Washington, DC - The Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA), a national Asian Pacific American (APA) civil rights organization with over 80 Chapters and affiliates, is teaming up with Verizon to introduce the 2002 OCA/Verizon Foundation Scholarship Program. Twenty-five scholarships of $2,000 each Will be awarded to APA students who are planning to enter their first year of college this fall. Scholarships and financial aid are critical in helping students from Lower income families attain a college education. The APA population is nearly 11 million with a poverty rate of nearly 11 percent, compared with eight percent for non-Hispanic Whites in 1999, according top the U.S. Census Bureau. Although APAs are often made victims of the model minority myth, And thus lack access to additonal financial resources to pay for college, most APAs do not fit into the highly educated and wealthy category dictated by this stereotype. The scholarship will provide opportunities to APA students who wish to pursue higher education while facing financial difficulties. "OCA and Verizon are dedicated to education in the APA community," commented OCA National President George M. Ong. "It is fortunate that Verizon recognizes the need to provide opportunities to APA students who do not have access to the financial resources necessary to pursue higher education." Within the last eight years, OCA has awarded over 1300 scholarships to financially disadvantaged students through its various scholarship programs. "Education has always been a high priority in the Asian Pacific American community." noted Christine Chen, OCA Executive Director. "Although the average level of education for APAs is high, the statistics are misleading. Although there are many members of our community who have advanced degrees, there are countless APAs who are unable to attend college because of financial difficulties. Through our many scholarships - including the newly created Verizon Foundation Scholarship - OCA is committed to granting deserving APA students a chance they otherwise would not get." Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon Communications, supports a variety of programs that focus on improving basic and computer literacy, bridging the digital divide, enriching communities through technology and creating a skilled work force. The foundation promotes partnerships in technology with organizations serving the needs of diverse communities, people with disabilities, and the economically and socially disadvantaged. For more information on the foundation, visit www.verizon.com/foundation.

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Washington Post article links:

Study: TV Diversity Still Lags
By Lynn Elber
AP Television Writer
Tuesday, June 4, 2002; 3:37 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58952-2002Jun4.html

Asia Has Its Day at the World Cup
By Christopher Torchia
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, June 4, 2002; 1:50 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58390-2002Jun4.html

Kansas Repeals Law on Property Ban
By Joshua Akers
Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, June 4, 2002; 7:12 AM
TOPEKA, Kan. –– Nearly seven decades after the Legislature banned Asian immigrants from inheriting property in Kansas, the law has been struck from the books.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56516-2002Jun4.html

Soccer Is Seoul Attraction
World Cup Kicks Off With Pageantry and an Upset
By Liz Clarke
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, June 1, 2002; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40796-2002May31.html

Noh Day at the Beach
'Dreaming Water' by Gail Tsukiyama,
By Carolyn See,
whose reviews appear on Fridays in Style
Friday, May 31, 2002; Page C07,
DREAMING WATER
By Gail Tsukiyama
St. Martin's. 288 pp. $23.95,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36830-2002May30.html

Japan's Voluntary Shut-Ins
Locked in Their Rooms, Young Men Shun Society
By Kathryn Tolbert
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, May 29, 2002; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24057-2002May28.html