Jooksings in the telly!!

I saw this commercial a couple months back and was trying to look for it on Youtube. Alas, I have found it! Thanks momolo! This is a commercial that I'm sure many jooksings can relate to. Not me personally, since i'm shit at all sports except snowboarding (no..not even badminton or ping pong mofo) It ranks second in my all time favorite commercials featuring jooksings. The first is the canadian heritage one..you guys know what i'm talking about. Anyway...I'm glad that Tim Hortons used asians for this commercial. The guy even used the famous cantonese "ah" after jimmy. Jimmy ah! No hockey for you. Must study!

But i think they left out the part where Jimmy did rebel once when he was 15 and he wanted to watch the playoffs and his dad beat him with a bamboo stick used for straightening out plants and then he had to sit in the corner pulling his ears because he got a D in english. (omg...the memories)

Ignoring the funny jooksingness...it's really a heartwarming commercial.

Jooksing Fashionistas rejoice!

Smash your way into my world. I am a Canadian Born Chinese and raised in Calgary, AB lived there all my life.

I have flipped through countless pages of Vogue growing up. Upon high school graduation, I packed my bags and sought after fashion school at Ryerson in Toronto. It’s been a few years now since I have graduated. Working in the industry has its ups and downs, (I must say, sometimes more downs). But at the end of the day, I smell, breathe, live and have a passion for fashion. Fashion drives me and inspires me truly always. It’s so fast paced and nothing is ever the same.

As a jooksing myself, I can relate to all of you out there. I take fashion seriously because I know you do. Growing up reading the magazines, I felt that there was a lack of Asian inspiration. Perhaps some of us lacked role models. I had so many questions. Why is it that Asian Hollywood stars seem to all know Kung Fu? Is that a must have requirement? Why is it that the stereotype? Why are all of the Asian models casted shown with slanted eyes and not almond? And so on. I flipped the endless pages and almost kept a silent tally of how many Asian’s filled the pages. How many of the models have yellow skin like I do?

There’s a lot of information out there, products every where, new faces in the modeling world and last but not least new and up and coming designers on the rise. We are living in the age filled with tabloids. In this age so many of us turn to celebrity-filled magazines and television shows for fashion inspiration and news. I dare to say out loud that we should put them down. Does it really matter looking at a picture of say Jessica Alba wearing a tracksuit as she’s shopping at the grocery store? Why are there so many Jessica Alba hopefuls? She is just another human being. We should start finding our role models and inspirations from the rest of us. We should look to the street and support each other for what each other are out there doing.

I know I’m caught somewhere in between my almost non-existent Chinese culture while being Canadian. But you know what, that’s okay. I am who I am. I hope you will like reading my editorial blog and enjoy my style insights, fashion journeys and what I have to share. I am up for ideas so feel free to email me. Keep in mind that at www.jooksings.com we’re celebrating our dual identity, being jooksings and unique.

And P.S. Let’s not forget that.

Until next time,

Stefani

Xoxoxo

Fashion Editor

Jooksings.com

introducing Stefani

The next blog is from Stefani. We met here in Toronto a few years ago and she's got a lot of bottled creativity that she's dying to put out. She's passionate about fashion and I always find myself arguing things with her because she likes to prove her point. She as stubborn as me. haha. Stefani is Chinese and as Jooksing as can be. I hope that all you readers see the creative in her like i do.

The modern Jooksing businessman

My name is Owen Ma, and I am the business editor for Jooksings.com. Throughout the upcoming days I will be writing on various topics pertaining to business. They stem from personal experiences to events that may be occurring to interesting business topics.

Now a little bit about me. I was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta Canada. I am 29 years old, and still to this day reside in Calgary. Like most Chinese North Americans, my parents told me (actually threatened me..haha) that I should go to school, get good grades, come straight home from school and then go to University. And you know what they wanted me to become? You guessed it…a doctor, or dentist, and accountant, engineer, even a teacher! What they didn’t want me to do was start a business. Too risky they said for a Chinese Canadian in Canada. All they (Caucasian Canadians) want you to do is open a restaurant! Well, to their dismay. I didn’t become a doctor, nor a dentist, an accountant nor engineer and definitely not a teacher either! I became what they did not want when I was a child…I became an Entrepreneur (but don’t say that word to them…they do not know what it means). I finished University with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics when I was 22. During school, I always wanted to one day start my own business, be my own boss. But I thought that in order to get the experience necessary, to prepare for the day I turn 40 when I could open my own business, I would have to get a job, and climb a corporate ladder. So, upon graduating, I went on in an attempt to climb the corporate ladder at a Telecom company and also in the world of banking. During this same time, I began dabbling in real estate investing. After having sold my first property, and made $20,000.00 I thought WOW…that’s equivalent to my one year salary at my entry level banking job! But, I persisted at climbing that corporate ladder because it was a “real” job, where my parents could say that their son is in banking.

But eventually, both industries and companies did not work out too well for me. So instead at the age of 24 I decided I would just go for it, I thought I’d just start my own business. I figured, what’s the worse that can happen? My business fails, and I pay back another debt much like most graduates with their student loans. It would be like getting a second degree and graduating with no job opportunities (at least high paying ones which all new grads feel they deserve) available. At least with a business I thought, I am in more control of my success than that professor (or teaching assistant) that marked my papers and assignments.

The first “real” business I started was Car Wholesaling. This lasted for about a year when I realized that this wasn’t a real business to me. It wasn’t because if I went on a vacation, I would lose out on income. To me, this wasn’t what I was looking for. I wanted a “money making machine”, which is something that continues to earn money even when you are not around. My cousin also shared this same view, so with this epiphany, the two of us ventured to the local Franchise show in Calgary in 2003. Here we discovered a new and emerging industry within the leisure travel segment. It was Cruising. From there we both partnered up, and bought a franchise and opened up a location in Calgary. We went on to build a location that would break the franchise sales records for the highest sales of a new location in their first year of operations. We sold this franchise in 2005.

Currently, I am one of the co-founder’s of Lease-X.com. An internet website which brings together those who wish to step out of their auto lease early with those who want to get into one for a short term. Here’s the website, check it out for yourselves; www.Lease-X.com it’s a great place to find that shiny new BMW and the person is going to pay you money to take over his payments! And there, you will learn a little bit more about our new, unique and FREE service to help individuals exit their auto lease contract early.

So that’s my story so far. With 3 ventures under my belt, and my interest in learning about business, Chris thought I could share some these new ideas that I come across with all you readers. So keep coming back to see what new things I’ve discovered, and feel free to drop me an email with some interesting stories you have come across as well.

Owen Ma.

Business Editor

Jooksings.com

blog problems

A week into this blog and already I have problems. For whatever reason, you can't have 2 admins for one blog. It may be a bug but it hinders me from allowing my 2 great editors from posting. They wrote a couple of great initial blogs last week so because i'm having these blogger problem I'm going to have to post them myself until google/blogger support fixes this problem for me. The first Blog I'll post is from Owen, a good friend since high school, and my business editor.

What is a jooksing?

I say sort of because I have another blog (tell you later) that i've sorta talked about what jooksings is but i guess since it's a new page and a new blog, I'll start again.

What is a Jooksing?

Well...if you look up jooksing on wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jooksing )
it will tell you that it means means a grain-measuring container made of bamboo. Bamboo is hollow and compartmentalized, thus water poured in one end does not flow out the other end. The metaphor being that "jook-sings" are not part of either culture: water within the jook-sing does not flow and connect to either end. Some so labeled do not consider the term derogatory, though many do.

It also goes to further defining that a jooksing is person of chinese descent that is born over here in North America that have "lost" or "denied" their own chinese heritage. Read it yourself on the link i gave you. It doesn't sound so pleasant.

My name is Chris Tsang. I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I was raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (Canadians always have to add the country in because many americans have no geographical idea about Canada. It's not a knock to americans..it's just from personal experience) I've spent time in Vancouver, Edmonton, Ottawa, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. In 1999, I decided to drop a career in Sales management and lived in Hong Kong for 1 year, travelled to singapore, thailand, and malaysia. I figured out that Hong Kong was just not for me. In 2001 I decided to move to Toronto, Ontario. I love it here. It's got everything i want except for the calgary flames and the rocky mountains.

As an Canadian born Chinese, which i absolutely hate saying, I'm here to tell the world that I'm here to defy and challenge the definition of what a jooksing is. Jooksings are a huge population in Canada and the USA and we are a largely ignored culture. There are some bright spots in the country, but jooksings don't really have a strong foothold like blacks do. It's just not as publicized. I'm not saying that I'm here to change the world...but i do want to showcase the jooksing community so it doesn't have to be associated with the asian stereotype.

Since it's 3:44 am. I'll have to continue another day. Until then. stay tuned, keep coming back for more articles and insights from me and other jooksings.com editors.

Chris Tsang
editor in chief,
Jooksings.com