Read on a Metafilter Article about the Chinese Heritage of Australian which is a website chronicling the Chinese Diaspora´s contribution to the development of Australia as a country. The should be something similar in the US. Few people associate Asians in America as recent immigrants who either get engineering jobs, or open up restaurants, or run laundromats. People would be surprised to know that it was the Chinese who built the Western Pacific Railway, and was one or two teams who drove in the Golden Spike (who were excluded from the famous historic picture). In the late 1800´s the Chinese immigrants were probably as influential to the development of the country (at least on the west coast), as the waves of European immigrants were. If it weren´t for the Exclusionary Act the Chinese would probably be as prevalent and established as the Italians, Irish, Polish, etc... Would we be as integrated and assimilated? Probably not, because we can´t pass for white people.

Eh, Oh well... Just historical interest, I guess...

Met Amy tonight at Freerer Gallery on the mall to catch a flick for the HK film festival. Unsurprisingly, although they had postponed the film LONG ago (it´s even in the printed brochures they released at the beginning of summer), the changes weren´t reflected on their website, nor on a bunch of other adverts... that´s government efficiency for you.

However, it was a blessing in disguise, because instead of the flick, they had a performance by a "persian-jazz fusion" group called Axiom of Choice. They turned out to be really good. At first, I was a bit offput by the fact that they seemed to be mostly persian (or maybe modern persian), and lacked jazz for the most part, but I was quickly mesmerized by their music...

Munched on carrots throughout the concert (quietly), but still managed to annoy the man sitting next to us.

sleeeepy

going to bed..