little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

the only asians in kenya

(The background: Lunch conversation with two co-workers. We’re all Asian, in our mid-twenties.)

Girl co-worker: Have your parents ever told you that they weren’t really your kids?
Guy co-worker: Yep. “Oh, you? We found you in a gutter! No wait, a trash can! Ha ha!”
Ernie: Same here. When I [...]

dance dance richter-scale

So the other thing I did this weekend (besides) was go to Planet Big with a bunch of friends, which was a blast. Planet Big is, how should we put this, a gay club for big men and their admirers.
The first time I heard about the club, I was at a bar with my [...]

the post where ernie almost dies

Okay, so I’m a drama queen.
But I have been sitting here on my bed, water and penicillin by my alarm clock for two hours. All the while trying to think of a clever way of writing about how I went to the emergency room for the first time in my life yesterday morning at [...]

the long and the short of this

I’m going to selectively bring back some of the better posts I’ve written over the past three years and put them in an archive. If there is any posts that you remember in particular that I should bring back, drop me an e-mail or comment on this weblog entry. Thanks.

That was the short [...]

the go game

I usually don’t plug stuff, but if you are in the Bay Area, have $25 and a sense of adventure, The Go Game is having another community game in Palo Alto on May 31st.
For those that haven’t heard of The Go Game, it’s a bizarre mix between a digital photo scavenger hunt, Mission Impossible, The [...]

the common-man’s guide to The Matrix: Reloaded

(Don’t worry. This post will be spoiler free, for the most part. I can’t make any gaurantees about what people post in the comments, however. Actually, if you want true spoilers, read the comments on Kottke’s post, where it’s practically a fucking Oprah Book club on that shit.)
Yesterday, Mike and I went [...]

games i saw at the best buy but will probably never buy: part 1

Take BloodRayne, for example. Hrm. Alex, I’ll take “throw a bunch of tired concepts in a game and sell it” for $100, please.
Somewhere in a board meeting, a bunch of video game marketing and sales staff are in a conference room.

CEO: I’m tired of seeing these the same video game genres! [...]

CYBERWAR!!!

Remember a year ago, when a flood of suspicious activity from the Middle East and South Asia was being discovered in the networks of American infrastructures? My cousin Chris, a detective for the Mountain View police department, was the guy who alerted the FBI.
Well, he was recently on an episode of Frontline recently, titled [...]

evite, web services, crystal meth and the lazyweb

You know what would be cool? Web services for Evite.
Evite, of course, is the online invitation website that everyone and their mother seems to be a part of. This week alone, I’ve gotten an Evite for an Indian wedding reception, a party where the theme is “circus freaks,” and a group outing [...]

the 10-sided die of “i don’t think so”: part 2

So, I drive to the restaurant to pick up Jason from his NERO game, and I meet up with a bunch of people that he spent the day with. Nice people.

Girl: You need to start playing with us. Need to.
Ernie: Oh, uhmm… I don’t know.
Guy #1: C’mon, it’ll be fun. [...]