A Perfect Impersonation Of A White Man

This is what I do best. Once or twice in my younger days I had dated a few white women although that era was filled with doing the proper behavior and not doing the wrong things. In order to fit in accordingly I would casually report my ethnicity as being German American. This was in the very liberal town of Berkeley. I could not get away with this statement and right away my stance was shot down and I was exposed for what I was and am. There was very little escape from the fact that I have the appearances of being Asian or back then Oriental. I lied my head off to see if I could get away with saying that I am of German heritage living in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Right away I was shot down and exposed. Okay so I needed a plastic surgeon back then in the 70's to change my appearance and back then no one I knew got plastic surgery to change their look. Back then I was known as a yellow banana the fruit assigned to my ethnicity but I had no ideal what that meant back then. I thought I was going to the University and I would be like everybody else almost but no it took more than speech to sound and act the part of a white person or man. Most of my classmates in grade school were white of mostly blue collar parents but in college the students came from white collar or professional working parents such as administrators of the like etc. My father ran a mom and pop grocery store then later got a job working for the U.S. Post Office before it became the now Postal Service in which newer mechanized machinery became part of the work force. I had become a marked man a minority among the white class students known to be different and I was and still am. I had become a victim of more nerves galore than ever before and being a student at the University the first year was a wash. I did not survive. I swear I must have been one of the first yellow man to date a white woman which the law forbidding such relationships had been overturned by the John Kennedy administration. I always wondered about the KKK and what they were about I could always see them on television on that old black and white television screen and the dogs on leash snapping at the heels of the civil rights groups. Whatever love that existed between me and this white woman melted away like a nuclear fission ready to explode a bomb.

Portrait of a Masterpiece Painted In Oil

I was reviewing an older blog written not too many years ago entitled "It Never Takes A Genius"and I had come across some pictures I had drawn from some digital photos as you see tracing from a picture was my only way out of the ghetto. Indulging at my worst attributes namely thinking about my ethnicity and attempting to make an artistic form in the way of drawing or better still painting in oil was at my door it was my challenge and also my worst subjects namely my ethnicity(Chinese)and art(my drawing became a product of shame and remember to this day I would not admit to who drew a picture of a house when my drawing in school was displayed. I sat in that elementary classroom humiliated by that horrible drawing and would never admit that I drew that monstrosity. Of course if I were a child prodigy excelled at drawing or painting art work I would have gleefully jumped up out of my seat to claim my work at such skillful work of art. These were just two of the things I had not going for me at the time. But I don't feel so bad now as there are many of us who are like this and we can do something about this. Yes I was an ugly duckling who could not draw and the town bullies would call me by racist names and even the nerds would do the same and the prettiest girl in the whole wide world was in my classroom and silently in my heart and in my mind I would ogle her but never tell anyone but my best friend. By the way he wound up winning her heart and beating me up in a gang fight I was mismatched from the beginning and when I lost the fight beaten and gasping for the very life of me I could hear the name calling and the taunts and racial slurs designed to destroy me completely. The funny part about this and yes I do find humor to this story to this day is that the girl I admired with deep passion of the highest order was and is to this day Chinese. She is alive as to this day I think I cannot be absolutely certain but good old Harry Gin the Chinese American who knows every Chinese American I could ever remember…well he would know. And so you ask what is the point of this posting where is this going? I've learned through the internet one can trace to get the main essence of the subject in mind as we were trained in geometry to draw and study lines so I figured why not apply this geometry with which they taught in school to the object in mind needed to be drawn? Anyone can do this it takes no talent and let us face it how many of us can really draw or paint a picture to rival that of the true genius who painted the most recognized portrait of a woman in this world which is of course the Mono Lisa? I did it over a dozen times. Now you try it. Google up or google Portrait of a masterpiece painted in oil which is seven words and what I got were pictures of what appears to be painting of masterpieces done by the various great artists of all time. Do you not see the picture of my mother when you scroll down a bit? And what is the name of that scoundrel who painted that oil painting? Later I can explain. If I can draw then anyone can.

Global Warming

My sources told me it would be hot and this I know for certain the weather forecast can be predicted to a degree enough to make a plan and the plan for me is to seek cover and guard my life from the sun and the hell of any hot summer and summer is without doubt here. As I grow older I thank my lucky stars I am alive for I have seen good able body people younger than I pass on. Of what good am I of knowing anything about the weather to post anything worth your while? We all read from the experts and what they have to say about the weather as we are immensely affected by the weather it is the difference between life or death when life can be so cold or hotter than hell but if lucky enough to be able to survive the elements which prey upon us we can live a full life which is my goal in life. Once a goal in my life was to be like Howard Hughes to be able to be rich and good looking and experienced with the most desirable women that my lifestyle could afford. But come down please I say to myself and one can talk to one's own self when they write a journal and this is precisely what I am doing now. I must come down from the heavens and the stars at least for today I cannot be among the heavens looking up at the clouds and the blue skies for the heat could kill me or at least fry me so bad I look like I was the spokesman for the movie "Towering Infernal" a movie where people got fried from the heat of a fire gone out of control. There is no fun or excitement when coming back from a hobby like tennis or kite flying when the perspiration is flowing and the tan goes far beyond a tan to dry flaking skin. Wear sun screen I warn anyone for the sun can kill more now than I have ever realized as a youngster I never knew it could be this bad. Do as say do not do as I do and I better learn from my own preaching and protect myself. Bill Martin comes to mind and here I go again name dropping. He isn't as famous I don't think as the former New York Yankee manager Billy Martin but nevertheless when I met him on a local radio station I kidded him about his name sounding much like the baseball manager guy. Bill Martin as we all know does the weather reporting and come to think of it I think I will just replace him now and do it myself. All I need now is the page views and the numbers and I might just get the job reporting the weather! But I have not arrived at a conclusion on global warming. Will it destroy the all of us like the atom bomb did to a great number of people of Hiroshima or will we prepare and build better machines with which we can combat the death which stares us in the face? Oh by the way I discussed the differences between the man primarily responsible for the building of the atom bomb and the man who was the father of the nuclear bomb Edward Teller. I say what are the consequences in having the power to kill should we feel guilt when we kill our fellow human beings during war or should we feel a great sense of pride when we can possess a weapon which can kill more people that many of us can imagine? Personally speaking I like the power of technology which has harnessed air conditioning to make us able to survive the killing damage of a long hot summer. You cannot blame me for this certainly not.

When Journalism Becomes Diversified

I'm not your journalist who comes around privileged and cannot be accepted as an American born here in this country I reside in although my uncles and father fought against the axis powers in the second world war. I do not speak for the corporate world but have on occasions exchanged conversations with anglo saxons. When I was on the tennis team way back when the Vietnam War was already down in history in progress or rather being fought as I saw no progress in that war. I was one of the first Chinese playing on a mostly all white tennis team my first year on the tennis team at Oakland Technical High School in Oakland the land of the champion Oakland A's baseball team where they won the World Series many times across the Bay from the five time Super Bowl Forty Niners but at that time didn't happen yet while the white kids spat on me making fun of my ethnicity commenting on how my father looked exactly like Mao Tse Tung the much despised communist dictator and womanizer and anti Christian the world has seen. Being an ethnic minority was not easy and often I would use my last name and hide pretending I was Japanese after all the Japanese made good Hondas and they were popular too. And so Ann Frank hid where she lived in Nazi occupied land never showing herself publicly while I hid my identity and would impersonate a Japanese American. Nevertheless I was a marked man looking over my shoulders for being of the wrong ethnic type among the privilege white race. My underlying message is that a good journalist should be representative from all ethnic backgrounds and not just from the privileged white race. When one cannot see a male Asian face on television in the entertainment industry one might ask where did they go? Just this year I argued before a census taker that the Japanese Americans during the second World War in America were rounded up and put in relocation camps when their names revealed they were Japanese and automatically found guilty by association. Would the American government throw me in jail as they had the Japanese if the motherland of China disagreed with issues in the United States? Although there are very few major league players in tennis with the exception of Michael Chang now retired as a player for some time where are any other players in major league tennis? I wasn't nearly enough of a good player to even think about playing pro but I knew who they and now that I'm turning more of a interest into tennis I see that Brad Gilbert is a commenter for a major television sport show. Tennis still lives for me although I had given it up to concentrate more on chess. But trust me I met him at the tennis courts and my former tennis partner and coach Ed Lopez never wanted to hear how I met up with Brad Gilbert at Davy's Tennis Stadium in Oakland. It was a challenge but I declined his offer to play a match. Back then he was a hot shot twelve year old young man a child prodigy if you ask me because he was good at that age and I knew it but didn't play for money or on bets. But he surprised us all within the local tennis community and became a ranked tennis pro later on in his life. I wrote him a letter a message telling him that China would enter the picture one day and would he be interested in any deals. Of course I was just spinning my wheels as we all are aware that any nation that can excel at the sport of tennis must be from a rich society for there is something to the old saying tennis is a rich man's sport. I will explain later. I've a new tennis racket which is endorsed by Djorkovic the world's number one ranked tennis player. But he doesn't use what he endorses not this Head model one I bought at Costco. Coming up next….what Andre Agassi told me over the air in regards to minority players. What I am driving at is this whole business of the color of our skin with which we as humans sport. There are many stories which attempt to explain the reasoning as to why there is this caste system with humans in regards to why it is thought one particular color to another is a superior human being than another. Yes I have heard of the book "Black Like Me" and no I am not about to call this blog "Yellow Like Me"

Contributions To American Technology and Rocket Scientry

Contributions; Consider the name of an Ah-Tye who I never heard of before until information was sent to me in the form or a list. My father told me when he was alive that all family members with our last name are related. The main stream media types or the professional journalist have not been assigned to cover the story of which engineering types are major contributors worldwide. Little is known about American contributions to the space program with the ethnicity of the Asian community. But in my very own website unless I was dreaming I saw with the credentials of an American scientist with which I followed up with telephone calls to capture a true story not heard much or at all before. One man in my mind can be googled as Warren Ah-Tye. American invention and technological advancement has involved minority ethnic groups not recognized who are prepared to make their presence more known. The American entertainment field is another phase of current events which has not discovered the contributions of the Asian American within the entertainment industry. Consider Jackie Chan of which yes I am a name dropper. Meeting such a celebrity on the air is preferred rather than meeting in person. Yet he has become the Asian stereotypical of what Asian actors are destine for in the martial arts industry. Upon closer examination there are no other roles. Case in point. When prompted if he Jackie Chan desired other roles to play besides martial art roles there were plenty of acting roles but in fields completely foreign to his background. Of the extremely limited number of Asian I was able to ask Jackie Chan a few questions and yes it was his desire to participate in other roles bedsides the roles in martial arts. If his wishes could come true according to what he related to me and the listening audience of KGO radio 810 of San Francisco he would have loved to star with some of Hollywood's super stars. Let me put it bluntly if I may be allowed. Is China a county, a nation which can succeed? Is it still a backward country so far behind the other industrial nations that citizenship is still denied to those particulars such as the Chinese? Once upon a time not that far back in time China was just that. My father knew of Angel Island in the San Francisco area. I cannot cite the exact reasons why the entertainment industry can only find William Hung as the leading star of Hollywood to me it is a phenomenon which I simply cannot explain except when it comes to civil rights Asians I sadly admit are far behind. Besides my father Howard Ah-Tye one of the first male authors of Chinese ethnicity William Hung is also a hero of mine not because he failed at becoming a leading success at the world's rankings of the talent necessary to become a star singer but he was my hero like in the movie Cool Hand Luke where we see the main character resolved to carry on despite all odds were against him to win. United States of America was a sleeping giant when it was attacked by Japan to start World War 11. I think China is another sleeping giant except it does not want war but peace in an environment where it can achieve economic stability not only in it's own backyard but as a player in the world economy.

The NBA and the Championship

So you may ask just what qualifications do I have do I have to make any comments about basketball due to the fact the Oakland city has a basketball team with the name of The Warriors which goes to show I know very little if almost nothing about basketball. I've just been informed that they may be making a move to San Francisco a city in which I claim I know about and travelled to many times to from across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay. Sports is not a foreign thorn in my side in fact I have come to know sports as an ally not an enemy; I have been known to interact with sports figures on the air before. I will cut to the chase. Tall men can do well at playing basketball it does not hurt. Witness one of the tallest players Yao Ming long since retired but he was very tall for a basketball player. Before Yao Ming came along my father a full blooded Chinese like myself told me that no Chinese could never play basketball because simply put Chinese were much much too short. And my father was right until Yao Ming came along from the other side of the world in China near the or at the area of Shanghai. Trust me. I am Chinese. Let me use the San Francisco zoo for instance I was there just yesterday and no I did not attend the Warrior's game today or ever. In fact I have never been to a basketball game. What I saw at the San Francisco zoo were the tallest animals in the world. Why God made them with the longest neck ever is beyond me but there the giraffes stood as tall as any beast could ever stand. In Thailand on television I saw with my very own eyes elephants playing soccer kicking the ball to make points. This is the truth so help me God. I did see the zoo's trainers and no one should tell me that these trainers cannot train the giraffes. It would never be a problem for a giraffe to slam dunk. I don't think Rich Walkolf sports commentator of radio KGO will have to worry about losing his job to me.

Identification of a Journal Writer

In school we were required to take certain subjects and classes such as world history, history, math, algebra, English and then in college we had a repeat of some of these subjects and then more history and English social studies and so forth. I did study for the grades and I got them more or less. It was enough to get the grades for admission of UC Berkeley the only college of my choice other than a community college or JC as it was known. If this blog becomes anything like the E-mail letters I wrote my sisters I'd say it is time to hang things up and find another hobby. I write this blog because as radio talk show host who gave some of his audience tips and job counsel I wrote or write it for the good of the soul the money aspect hasn't come into being as yet although it has been more than four long years and not even a penny. Obviously I have a hard time following directions and sometimes I just wind up where destiny takes me rather than my leading myself around on my own. I'm trying but that is not good enough. If you as an authority need my identification I will show you this blog. You might think of me as a kind of invisible man something like in the book by Ralph Elison who wrote the book Invisible Man. Nevertheless an invention called the drone is or has been out on the market proven to be successful. Since the indoor flying RC remote control helicopter designed for small age children and upwards captivated my interest the drone which does fly outdoors designed to do more than just being a toy. We all know this. I will look into this. I never realized that a hobby of mine would also evolve into a mainstream news item. It is true no one flies kites in this area of Hercules which is a small but great city of California but I have due to my design of a simple invention called the kite launcher which for the past few years allowed for me to enjoy the flight of a kite in my own backyard. The downside of this practice is when kites crash and they do into other people's property and my personal integrity is at stake; I must make up for the intrusions of my model aircraft as it invades the space of my neighbors. However my intentions is to spread harmony and peace upon my community and for us to know that we can all share the wind. I do notice that helicopters are flying very low of recent times which may put a halt to my flying kites in my own backyard. The lessons of playing online chess will not be forgotten and I shall return to this game with passion. At least this is my hope.