Current Event: Stockton Asian Farmer Market

Although Stockton is a city that is in the middle of nowhere and has no Asian resources like in Los Angeles, Stockton has an Asian farmer market that provides awesome, fresh Asian food resources for those who wish to buy cheap, Asian food (e.g, fresh Chinese soy milk). AS a matter of fact, I regularly attend this farmer market even since I found out about this resource since I am a big fan of Chinese soy milk and traditional Asian vegetables, such as Chinese spinach. Additionally, they sell tofu for ~ $0.50 to $0.75 (3x cheaper) than any store and sell green Chinese spinach and boy choy for the price of $5 for six of them.

Is there a correlation between Modern Music Lesson Training & Confucianism?

Classical music is a component that has always been part of myself. It is almost impossible for me to ever define myself without thinking about music. This blog is to express my love for two important dominant themes that had been part of the culture worldwide: classical music and Confucianism.  However, these two topics were rarely associated together. In fact, most considers those themes as two separate entities.

My personal belief is that classical music training has been innately part of the Confucian tradition societies for thousands of years but just not explicitly expressed as that.

Current Event: Hmong New Year Celebration in Stockton

Last Saturday, I attended the Hmong New Year Celebration with my sister and friends. I am not Hmong and had never seen a Hmong Celebration so this celebration was quite new and different for me. Sadly for me, I did not like the food that were present at the celebration since the food was either large amount of barbecued meat or fried something. Also, the vendor sellers mostly only spoke Hmong, which caused me to have difficulty to communicate with them. However, there were some really nice performances by various performers, such as ethnic dances and singing, and some interesting vendor shops that had very nice hand-crafted artwork.

Current Event: University of the Pacific Hosts the Jon Schamber High School Speech & Debate Touranament in Stockton

University of the Pacific Speech & Debate Team

 A couple of weekends ago on October 28th through 30th, the University of the Pacific Debate team hosted on campus the 32nd annual Jon Schamber High School Forensics Tournament. This tournament a full, two day tournament for the high school students in Stockton or near Stockton. The tournament features the following: CX (Cross Ex) Debate, Lincoln Douglas Debate, Parliamentary Debate, and Radio Broadcasting, Ten Different Individual Events. The Pattern A individual events are Expository, Dramatic Interp, Impromptu, Thematic Interpretation, and OPP. The pattern B events are Oratory, Humorous Interp, Extemp (Combined National & International Topics), Duo Interpretation, and Oral Interpretation.

Current Event: Confucian Engaged in Youth at Stockton Christian Church

Current News: Stockton Amtrak Crash!!! Crash at Contra Costa County

On September 30, 2011 at approximately 7:20 p.m., the train carrying 191 passengers from Oakland to Bakersfield (with stop at Stockton) collided with a truck at a rural crossing east of Brentwood in the Contra Costa County. Majority of the passengers were due to arrive at Stockton Amtrak station at 7:30 p.m. that evening. There were 37 passengers and two crew members that suffered “minor to moderate” injuries. My little sister was one of the passengers inside the train car that collided with the truck and was one of the few passengers in that train car that were unhurt. Almost all the passengers wanted to get off the train immediately but were all told they had to stay on the train. My sister, along with the other passengers, was forced to stay at this crash site for the next five hours. My friends and I drove to the train crash location to try to take my sister and were told that no one was allowed to get off the train by the police officers.