By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY I learned to love cashew nuts through my mother when I was a kid. “Cashew nuts are yummy, but like peanuts, they are fattening,” mom would say. It’s strange how children believe everything their parents tell them. A recent PBS nutrition program showed how wrong she was. Those facts […]
BLOG: Why Harris can’t persuade migrants to stay home — Vaccines+jobs=Heaven=America
By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Vice President Kamala Harris visited Central America recently to discourage migrants from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. It’s not going to happen. “Do not come,” Harris said in Guatemala. As many as 150,000 migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in March. And 5,000 arrests were made on average per day. Why […]
BLOG: Summer lovin’ your job or internship
By Assunta Ng Northwest Asian Weekly My first culture shock in America happened while working my summer jobs. I was an international student from Hong Kong. My experiences could be lessons for youth hunting for summer jobs. Last April, unemployment rates hit 6.1% (9.8 million unemployed) nationwide. This month, most businesses are hiring although the […]
BLOG: Is the mask an Asian thing or American, too?
By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Since COVID-19, masks have been a contentious subject between the East and West, and the left and right. However, masks have done more for me than I could have ever imagined, despite the fact that I dislike wearing one. People made jokes about masks for a while. “If you […]
BLOG: Hunger for unhealthy foods during COVID—Join the club
By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Recently, I have intentionally broken my rules on healthy food. Readers may drop their jaws to find out my secrets. I have often preached a healthy lifestyle, and yet I have been dreaming about consuming some unhealthy food. If I share with you what they are, you would laugh. […]
BLOG: Happy Mother’s Day: Long live “crazy” moms!
By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Toshiko Hasegawa and I have something in common, even though we are from two different generations. We are both “crazy moms” perhaps! A few months after Hasegawa gave birth to a baby girl, she declared she was running for office. Hasegawa, executive director of Washington State Commission for Asian […]
BLOG: 6 things to do after COVID vaccination
By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY To men, it might not be a big deal whether a woman wears earrings. To us women, earrings are part of our femininity, if not identity. I have spent more time deciding what earrings to wear than my outfit. It has been months since I wore earrings and attractive […]
BLOG: I am fine with my J&J vaccine
By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY There were two different reactions after I got my Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine weeks ago. The immediate one was envy and jealousy as some people also wanted the one-shot J&J instead of the two-shot Moderna and Pfizer. Soon, these same people were worried about me when federal officials […]
BLOG: I am fine with my J&J vaccine
By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Two different reactions after I got my Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine weeks ago. The immediate one was envy and jealousy as some people also wanted the one-shot J&J instead of the two-shot Moderna and Pfizer. Soon, these same people were worried about me when federal officials paused the […]
BLOG: Life after lockdown
By Assunta Ng NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY “Let’s have lunch,” said my friends after I told them I got my COVID vaccine. Before saying “yes,” I have pondered some practical tips after lockdown. We have all missed our friends after months of isolation. We can’t wait to see them face-to-face. Some consider sitting next to outsiders […]
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