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Alexandra Wallace – Asian’s in the Library rant

Posted in Rants, Reviews, Social Sites, Uncategorized on March 25th, 2011 by Joan Mae – Be the first to comment

Well, this is actually just one of the hundreds of blog and video responses to the UCLA student’s infamous “Asian’s in the Library” youtube video. I personally think that video was very inappropriate , specially that it turned viral shortly after the Japan’s tsunami disaster . For those of you who got no idea of what the video is all about, she was actually trying to make a humorous video rant about Asian’s having no manners, talking aloud over the phone, inside the library , while she’s busy with her finals.

Well, if she’s really that annoyed , thats understandable, but post something like that in Youtube and attacking Asian’s in general is .. offensive. Well, there’s freedom of speech and there’s stupid-racist speech, and I think she did the latter with flying colors. She even referenced Japan’s tsunami, mocked about asian’s talking over the phone with their loved ones, blew it off like it was just a minor thing. I mean, I dont hate her really, but the video was completely inappropriate.
The video unfortunately, made a huge backlash on her, she received death threats and got her personal information published in public. A serious backfire.. I feel sorry for her..

An apology letter she made in UCLA’s online news source , the Daily Bruins :

In an attempt to produce a humorous YouTube video, I have offended the UCLA community and the entire Asian culture. I am truly sorry for the hurtful words I said and the pain it caused to anyone who watched the video. Especially in the wake of the ongoing disaster in Japan, I would do anything to take back my insensitive words. I could write apology letters all day and night, but I know they wouldn’t erase the video from your memory, nor would they act to reverse my inappropriate action.

I made a mistake. My mistake, however, has lead to the harassment of my family, the publishing of my personal information, death threats, and being ostracized from an entire community. Accordingly, for personal safety reasons, I have chosen to no longer attend classes at UCLA.

Alexandra Wallace

Lesson learned..

Blog Clog – Culprit Identified

Posted in Events, Humor, Personal, Rants, Reviews, Social Sites on August 8th, 2010 by Joan Mae – 8 Comments

Right, I havent updated my Blog in Yeaarrsss..
And I was poking around it for almost half an hour, trying to figure out what I can do to develop it * like add widgets and stuff, get a new theme* but it appears to me that one thing you have to do to make it look good is to ofcourse- Write something into it!
One thing I havent been doing!
Great… -_-

So what am I up to that makes me so busy these days?

First – Well I have a new Job.. And my Job is tough. Like really really tough. I work 8-9 hrs a day plus another hour to chat with people. I get all lazy coming home from work and I sleep right away. Blah blah blahh ( I have to come up with excuses first )

The real deal :

for Facebook :

This thing is a TOTAL waste of time, and I am completely aware that this thing is REALLY A TOTAL waste of time. Oh well. Coz I keep logging in and logging off, readin stuff over and over, browsin pics over and over, posting random updates that meant nothing, stayin online for like forever doing literally NOTHING!!! ( Geez Im mad o_O ) Couldnt imagine anythin more addictive that Facebook. I log in before coming to work, after getting off from work, while eating, while half sleeping,while with friends, while out with my boyfriend. Wow.  Had I spent one hour of my FB time gathering contents for my blog, I couldve been a Problogger by now ( atleast to my own knowledge lol ) and Im planning to deactivate my account ( uhmm for a day, err, well I dont wanna totally get rid of it )


Blog testing.. *lemme see if this is gonna make it look better now.*

Posted in Social Sites on October 12th, 2009 by Joan Mae – 3 Comments

Arytie.. so what do I have here?? Another reason to stay late at night.  *all for the sake of updatin tis crap* ol..I had to blame my best ole pal  Jehzeel Laurente, who got me writing again. . I stopped like 4 years ago coz i thought no body really cares about whatever i write .  I have had couple of personal sites before..started with Friendster * that ws when the network’s pretty much crowded. Well it is still crowded up to this point.. yea.. crowded with people with fake accounts. Yea like the ones Im seein in “Who’s viewed me “link with obviously stolen pictures of  extremely gorgeous guys and girls. And you see ‘em a lot in ur inbox too, say, “Hi Joan, i got my free phone from wherever-that-hell-of-a-site-is, try it!! it werks”  .. Boy..Got me smilin ehh.. LOL.  Anyhoe.. i hate fake accounts.. But theyre cool ways to make up ur day though. Love browsin empty profiles. Wow. Sucha waste of time.. And why the duck am I talkin about how I sooo love em, i dont even understand. Huh** well, forgive me peeps.. im dead sleepy.. i’ll take care of tis later..