From the category archives:

Causes

Dear Dog Owners,

by Serena Wu on January 30, 2010 · Comments

please take care of your furry, four-legged family member for the duration of its lifespan.
I’m the type of person who cringes whenever I hear about fish and turtles dying because, oops my friends forgot to feed them. Or dogs who live outside in the backyard with no shelter during rainy days and cats who are [...]

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I kid you not, I spent the last two days nerding it up in Taipei’s National Central Library, flipping though Shih-Jung Tzeng’s Oxford-published PhD thesis, From Honto Jin to Bensheng Ren: The Origin and Development of Taiwanese National Consciousness. Why? The 361-pager studies the diaries of two Taiwanese literary figures, one being my great-grandfather, Wu [...]

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“Fiat Lux?” So Enlighten Me.

by Serena Wu on November 20, 2009 · Comments

What version of the UC Berkeley protests would you like? AP, SFGate, or The Daily Cal?
For those with an aversion to text, here’s raw footage:

and more raw footage…

The catalyst to the havoc? The UC board approved a 32% increase in undergraduate fees yesterday. (Details here.)

(Cal students also want the reinstatement of 38 custodians, but why [...]

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Formosa Betrayed

by Serena Wu on September 4, 2009 · Comments

There’s a particularly important indie film I’ve been dying to see. I’ve seen short excerpts, and I’ve met Will Tiao, the producer, twice. My friend, Jon, has been working hard as the associate producer (and recently just packed up his cubicle), and I also know some people who were extras in the film.

Formosa Betrayed is [...]

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Help Taiwan Typhoon Morakot

by Serena Wu on August 15, 2009 · Comments

Perhaps it was a little insensitive of me not to write a follow-up post after my initial “oh-this-is-exciting!” typhoon post (which was written the day of and before much of the aftermath). Many Taiwanese in the South have lost their homes, their loved ones, their livestock and farmland. Broken freeways have cut off transportation and [...]

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