The 2012 East-West Center Alumni Conference in Beijing wouldn’t have been complete without a field trip to climb the Great Wall of China. And climb we did! After a rainy conference morning which looked like it was going to put a damper on our climbing fun, the...
Every two years the East-West Center, a Honolulu-based Asia-Pacific research institute that funded my M.A. studies in Hawaii, holds an alumni conference biennially somewhere in Asia. Having served as the official photographer for the last three conferences (Hanoi in...
This is a nice little article I enjoyed writing for the upcoming edition of the East-West Center Cookbook, a collaborative effort of East-West Center participants from all corners of the Asia-Pacific region. There is a fantastic variety of delectable recipes every...
This is a State of the Internet address I made by e-mail to the East-West Center participants in late 2005 in response to a number of people on the listserv complaining about the slow internet connection. If you don’t know what the East-West Center is and never...
I recently served as coordinator/referee for the soccer competition portion of the newly revived East-West Center Olympics. This is basically a recap of how things went down (in the form of e-mails I sent to the EWC listserv about the competition), with only slight...
