Disco Ball of the pawty = Jenn. ( you like that J.chung. eh? )

So.. how is everyone doing??

I was a hermit this whole week. and study days.

Finals is truly different from highschool’s finals.

i remember being so carefree and stuff but yeah.

Anyways– word of encouragement: Everyone, good luck on finals! But luck really doesnt’ have anything to do with it. Study hard. Concentrate. Focus. <3

I can’t wait to go home!

My mom decorated our house with christmas lights and ornaments. I am so excited. My sister and I are gonna make an awesome gingerbread house! Hope ya’lls christmas breaks are awesome. If you decide to come to cali– HOLLA

I wish i had something more profound to say.

Oh wait I do. I am stoked for next semester because I won’t have a job so I can devote all myt ime to KSA. More of Jenn to go around! woot woot (:

Have a wonderful break you guys.

You guys warm my tummy.

Much Love,

J.

p.s. Thanks Tim for helping me figure out how to do this post. For future records.. it’s not common sense. This is tough stuff.

Pictures to come soon!!

Date: Monday, December 8, 2008
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location: Vanderslice Cabaret Room
City/Town: Chestnut Hill, MA

For the very first time, the Korean Students Association and the Asian Christian Fellowship are coming together to host an event that can appeal to two seemingly very different clubs. In a concert featuring four up-and-coming Asian-American hip-hop artists with messages of hope and inspiration, KSA and ACF hope to create more unity on campus.

Featuring:
LYRICKS, also known as Rick Lee, is a Korean-American rap artist who grew up in northern Virginia and recently moved out to Southern California to pursue rap as a full-time career. His music, which includes both a secular and God-focused repertoire, is characterized by a genuineness of lyrics, smoothness of flow, and strength of passion and humility found in very few rap artists today. Together with DJ Zo, who’s always droppin’ mad cuts, LYRICKS is here to revolutionize the rap game.

MANIFEST
Peter Kang aka Manifest is bringing a serious change to the world of hip-hop. Whether it was on Youtube or Myspace that this young artist was found, this Korean-American rapper surely knows how to draw your attention. Raised in Philly and currently residing in northern Virginia, Manifest delivers a unique and bold sound that is capturing the hearts of listeners everywhere. From fast flows to slower lyric-emphasized tracks, he maintains a firm direction in his positive messages. He has recently finished and released his second mixtape called “Revealed Volume II”, a hearty 25-track album that is selling at a fast pace not only to fans here in the States, but internationally as well in places such as Japan, Germany, Australia, Canada, and Sweden. Best known for self-produced hit “Gift” featuring his partners Lyricks and J-Smaals, Manifest continues to finally bring real lyrics back to hiphop.

DUMBFOUNDEAD is a Korean American emcee/poet from Los Angeles, CA and has performed all around the U.S. and Canada. His comedic and lyrical style is very unique and easy to tell apart from everybody else. His freestyle ability has placed him amongst the top battlers in the world and can be found all over youtube. In 2007 he entered the WRC (World Rap Championships) and was one of only two asians who entered. He is also a member of the Project Blowed (the longest running open-mic in the world). He now tours regularly and can be seen rockin’ cyphers, battles and stages all around the world.

DJ ZO
Whether in the studio mixing down vocals, or on the turntables mixing in beats, DJ Zo speaks with his hands manipulating sound. Originally from Northern Virginia/Washington DC and now residing in Los Angeles, DJ Zo is always behind the scenes, putting in work. As the backbone of the beautiful cycle, DJing for Lyricks, Manifest, & Dumbfoundead, as well as the Swim Team from LA, Zo constantly pushes the boundaries of music. His strong ties in the LA underground, turntablist/DJ community, and asian-american community have enabled him to share stages and open for performers such as 112, Baby Bash, Warren G, & Common. His originality and style in music is a result of his years of experience with DJ battles, club/top 40 gigs, breakdancing events, weddings, underground rap performances, and late night studio sessions. Since moving to LA Zo has DJed at several highly regarded clubs such as the House of Blues on Sunset and has performed in front of 24,000 people with Lyricks at the LA Galaxy halftime show. With experience DJing at Universities such as Princeton University to Claremont College, Zo is here today alongside Lyricks, Manifest, and Dumbfoundead to revolutionize the rap game. Bottom line- these guys are for real.

This FREE concert is open to ANYONE who wants to enjoy some really good music after the last day of classes.
DOORS OPEN AT 7:30 in Vandy Cabaret.

So, please COME and invite all your friends! It’ll be an amazing time as a study break and potential source of motivation during this crunch time of finals.

You can sample some of their stuff on their myspace pages:
www.myspace.com/teamlyricks
www.myspace.com/typemanifest
www.myspace.com/dumbfoundead
www.myspace.com/zomanno

Also look them up on Youtube and Imeem!!

Super Senior Appreciation Day
Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Vanderslice Cabaret Room

Our beloved super seniors David Kim, Paul Seo, and Eugene Kim will be ending their BC careers at the end of this semester. Just because it’s the middle of the year doesn’t mean we can let them leave without showing them we love them and we’ll miss them.

Korean Adoptee Mentoring Program (KAMP)
Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008
Time: 12:00pm - 3:30pm (Meet at St. Ignatius Church @ 11 a.m. to leave together)
Location: Wellesley College

KAMP is the Korean Adoptee Mentorship Program and we’ve been asked by Wellesley KSA to help out as volunteers and mentors for Korean American children adoptees. This program plays a very important role in shaping these children especially because it is very hard for people to know about their own heritage and culture if they do not grow up in that environment. This mentoring program allows these Korean American children to learn about the Korean culture while having fun.

Those who would like to help out and be a volunteer and a mentor for these children please e-mail us back at bostoncollegeksa@gmail.com telling us that you are interested in going. We will meet at St. Ignatious Church on lower campus at 11 AM that day to leave as a group. In terms of what we are doing during the program, we will be helping out with the interactive kimbap making activity as well as playing with the kids and getting to know them a little better. Sounds like fun doesn’t it?? =] I hope to see a lot of you guys there this saturday!!!

Hope to see you guys out there. Finish the year strong y’all!!

If we were to shrink the world population into 100 people, our world would look like this.

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’s wealth and all 6 would be from the United States.

80 live in substandard housing
18 struggle to live on 1 dollar a day
13 are hungry or malnourished
1 has a college education

http://www.miniature-earth.com/me_english.htm

so what are you thankful for?

We’re having our annual BU vs. BC KSA olympics this saturday 11/22 at Boston University! We’re competing against BU in basketball, Volleyball, and Food eating. If you’d like to sign up to be part of a team please shoot an e-mail to bostoncollegeksa@gmail.com before this friday!

We need to put together teams so that we can dominate over BU in everything just like last year. We also need people to come and cheer and represent BC KSA cuz when we go places we roll deep!

Freshmen this is a great opportunity to start building friendships outside of BC and its just a really fun event and time of bonding.

Hope to see you guys there!!

Come out to From Mind to Mic on Thursday, sponsored by Asian Caucus!! Your very own Anna Kim, Paul Seo and Danny Min will be opening!!

Via AC:
AC’s 4th Annual FROM MIND TO MIC Concert and Performance Showcase!

Co-sponsored by Asian American Studies Program, UGBC, Neights on the Heights, GLC, JCBC

Every year, Asian Caucus brings both nationally recognized and up-and-coming Asian/Asian-American performers to the Boston College campus to express themselves From Mind To Mic. It is our biggest event of the year!!!! Free to the public, our annual concert allows people from the greater Boston area to come enjoy artists from all over the States showcase their talents!

Far East Movement has embarked on 2 World Tours where they have been everywhere from South America and Canada to Europe and Asia. They have garnered multiple features on MTV and have featured music on worldwide media such as ABC Family’s “Lincoln Heights,” “CSI,” HBO’s “Entourage”, and “Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift.” Far East Movement was also the first Asian act to perform at the Sundance Film Festival and at the Cannes Film Festival in France and was featured for Verizon Wireless’s LG Dare ‘Touch One’ Campaign.

So why should you come this year?
(1) It’s FREE! Get to see these performers up and close without dropping your hard-earned dough for tickets :0)
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

(2) ALL ARE INVITED! Bring your friends! Bring your family! Bring that girl or boy you been sweating for the last few months! This event is not for only Asian students, EVERYONE will enjoy their music because it’s bombbbb! =]

(3) It’ll be A GREAT START TO YOUR THURSDAY NIGHT! Ending at 10 PM, you’ll still have time to get to whatever party, bar, club, or study lounge you have planned to hit up later…

(4) ASIAN CAUCUS is throwing the event! Roll in mad deep and help us show Boston College just how big our presence really is!

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/11/12/change_from_the_top_down/

BC KSA has been supporting Sam Yoon since 2004, and now there are talks about him running for the MAYOR of Boston!!!

Below are some links to get more info on Sam Yoon.

http://www.samyoon.com

Also, one of our past presidents, Dong Joo (hi dong!) has his own personal fundraising page for Sam Yoon. The link to that page is http://samyoon.helpmycampaign.com/djl523/myfundraising. Let’s all try to support Sam Yoon in whatever way possible, whether it is $1 to $20 or even more if you wanted to, in helping him raise the resources he will need to move up in Boston’s political world!!! Any amount would be greatly appreciated. Let’s get our voices heard.

Thank you BC KSA!!! =]

sincerely,

joe

Don’t forget about the Culture Show meeting tonight, Thursday, at 6:30 in Walsh 7th floor lounge. This is the same place as our 1st Annual Culture Night. Culture Show is one of our biggest event and is a great way to meeting more people who are nasty talented and didn’t know it. Everyone who is interested should come out and sign up for acts. Hope to see all of you guys there.