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My company, Inquirer.net, had a booth at two Asian festivals last month in celebration of Asian Pacific Heritage Month. We baked in record temperature weather in San Francisco Civic Center –Little Saigon and the next day in Sacramento, Old Sacramento district. You can read my complete festival news stories on: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/news/view/20090522-206481/20000-join-Sacramentos-Pacific-Festival http://globalnation.inquirer.net/features/features/view/20090525-207041/Filipinos_join_San_Francisco_Asian_Festival I attended similar cultural events before for fun. Professionally, I managed and worked the Sega of America booth at professional trade shows such as the Licensing Show in New York. Totally (first time typing and saying "totally") two different scenes, environments and subcultures. I definitely found the Asian festivals more fun so it didn’t feel like work. I interviewed two professional athletes, Mark Munoz (“Philippine Wrecking Machine”), an up and c...

A week later, I'm still pinching myself of images of cries and smiles worldwide congratulating Obama and the United States for several deep reasons: The first and obvious of course is that he's making history as the first African American to live in the White House, the house that was built mostly by the hands of slaves. Second, it's generational. Obama is 46 years old, between the Baby Boomer and Gen X (like myself), he can relate to the My Space, Twitter, Facebook and Blackberry generation. Remember when he announced his VP, Joe Biden, running mate via text messages? That was cool! He even has an account on LinkedIn, a free professional and international online networking tool that connects people. He has 500+ contacts in his network. He's probably tilt the scale as his rolodex entries continue to multiply by the week. In online interviews in China, 2 men of different backgrounds were asked why they were happy about Obama being president. They both said he looked lik...

November 2, 2008 was an amazing, emotional and unforgettable ride for this country and the world. From Barack Obama's lead in the afternoon polling hours to his mesmerizing yet somber acceptance speech, I couldn’t keep my eyes off all the media news stations until I forced myself to walk away at 1:00am. The buzz continued the next morning from Honolulu , Jakarta, Japan, Kenya and the White House. Obama's transformation reads like a rags to riches, Rocky story: growing up with a single parent to becoming the first African American president of Harvard Review, then his quick rise to Senator, to his historic win for the most powerful seat in the country - is a true testament of adversity in the making. Even if you don’t agree with his policies you can’t help but be in awe of his struggle, hope and determination to make it to the mountaintop while staying cool. I’ve never heard of Barack Obama until I saw him speak on national television at the 2004 Democratic National Conventi...