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Help make this awesome event happen - bring your family members!

Daigeho! Please bring your father, mother, aunts, uncles, grandfathers, grandmothers, neices, nephews, brothers, sisters, kids, and friends so they have a chance to meet other Teochew people. I've met so many GGN members who's parents might be retired and spending most of their time at home watching tv and reading newspapers... why not bring them outside for some fresh air, puet-ue with other Teochew people, and maybe even play a few TC games. I know some of you are like "yeah, but my parents don't like meeting other people, or they won't know anyone" - that's the point! Help make this event a success =D
- Basic BBQ food, water, utensils provided (w/ vegetarian options)
- Any extra food would be much appreciated
- Teochew charades, and other family friendly games Please share the event!
Location: San Bruno Mountain State Park (555 Guadalupe Canyon Parkway, Brisbane, California 94005) - a hidden gem that's actually in Daly City and only 20mins from SF Chinatown, 36 mins from Hayward, and 50 mins from San Jose.

Please register on Facebook: Gaginang Group

Hi All!  I would like to invite you to come out and join Gaginang in a day of mingling and 
outdoor fun.  We've got some fun activities planned, so all you need to do is bring yourself
(and maybe a few friends).  

Gaginang will provide lunch and bottle water.  If you would like to bring a snack to share,
that would be super duper cool!

Meet some new friends.  Rekindle with some old friends.  Work on your tan.  
Come out and play with us! 

Date: Sunday, April 29th 2012

Time: 11AM to 4PM

Place: 909 Kiely Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95051 

Hi everyone,

A fellow Gaginang wanted to bring attention to the need for more Asian Americans to register to be a bone marrow transplant donor, helping to hopefully save many lives of those with leukemia.  This is his message and I hope you will register if you qualify to be one.  I tried but unfortunately looking at the requirements, I could not listed as a donor.

Du

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Dear Gaginang,

Janet Liang, a recent UCLA graduate, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia on August 24, 2009. As of now, she has only two more months to find a matching bone marrow transplant donor before it's too late. Finding a match is most likely found within the same ethnic group. Unfortunately, more than 50% of all Asian Americans who are stricken with leukemia are left to suffer and die because they cannot find a matching donor in time. That’s because only 7% of all Asian Americans are on the National Registry.

The best way you can help out is to register yourself as a bone marrow donor. You can do this at one of your local bone marrow/stem cell donor drives. It’s really easy and painless—just a swab of your cheek with a q-tip. If you can't make it to one of the scheduled drives, you can also register on marrow.org with the promo code: teamjanet to get a free mail-in kit. A mail-kit takes about two weeks to process, but registering at your local drive is immediate and preferable.

Once you are registered, please spread the word to all of your Asian friends (or anyone who can help) by forwarding them this information, passing out flyers, hosting your own drive, or helping in whatever means possible. It’s very easy to host a drive. You can host one at your church, college, company, or at any large gathering of people. There will be a whole support network of volunteers and recruiters to help you get set up in your area. Lets be creative.

Still confused? Instructions on how to help and more information about Janet can be found in the following links below.

Helpingjanet.com

Aadp.org (Asian American Donor Program)

marrow.org (Be The Match Marrow Registry)

a3mhope.org (Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches)

http://bit.ly/x6Yua4 (Janet’s personal plea video)

http://bit.ly/zXQmcy (Team ISA video)

http://bit.ly/s9jbGD (List of International Registries for those overseas)

janetgliang.com (Janet’s Blog)

http://bit.ly/wsdGpI (Daily Dot article)

Thank you so much for your attention. Janet has been such a huge inspiration for the Asian-American community of leukemia patients. Lets take the time to pray for Janet, her family, and her friends. Keep her in your thoughts. Your efforts, no matter how big or small, can inspire hope in Janet and many others who are currently in pain and suffering.

Sincerely,

Tim 

In case no one has read the Relief for Japan article on our front page, Gaginang has donated $712 to American Red Cross for the Japan Relief effort.  Thank you to everyone who contributed to the fund.

Calling all Southern California Gaginang members!!!  It's that time of year again!  Dragon boat races in Los Angeles' Echo Park Lake! 

What's the special occasion, you ask?  Originated in 1972, City of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation decided to promote awareness and understanding of what the Asian people have contributed to in regards to the culture of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities.  They did this by holding an annual Lotus Festival.  According to Asian culture, the lotus flower is a symbol of rebirth, purity, and life.  The lotus flower blooms in July, and not only is Echo Park Lake a central location for Asian and Pacific Islander communities, it also houses the largest lotus bed in the United States!

The proceeds from the dragon boat races support scholarships to graduating high school students in the Los Angeles community.

*Photos from the 2007 and 2008 races. We placed 13th of 39 teams in 2007 and 16th of 36 teams in 2008.

So how does Gaginang get involved?  We'd like to establish a team of 8 members, minimum 4 females, and enter in their community division.  Each team is allowed a 20-minute practice on Saturday, June 25.  Actual race date will either be on July 9th or 10th, 2011 (depending on the team's availability).  Let's get together and beat our former times... and while we're at it, tell the world that we are indeed "gaginang!" =)

For more information, please visit http://www.lotusfestival.org/.

If you have any questions, or would like to sign up, please email Fong at fong.trinh @ gaginang.org.  Sign-ups will be taken through May 31st.

Daigeho! 

Ty here. Wanted to share with everyone the new Teochew-themed blog that I've created. It's called "Teochew Know?". Get it? Teochew Know - Did you know? Ha ha. Okay. As for the content, I thought compiling all of the neat Teochew media (think songs, videos, and TC-related news) that I find online (and off) onto one spot would be a lot better than just throwing it out on my personal Facebook account. I have some real gems on there. Oh, and if you see anything that you think should be on there, shoot me a message.

Check out the blog here: Teochew Know 

Hi all,

Sorry for the long long wait for those of you wishing to see the old forum.  The link is http://old.gaginang.org/forum/  which I have also linked in the current forum under "Website."

Du

What time is it? it's phrase book time!  Not sure how many people are aware that Gaginang has been publishing phrase books, which are collections of Teochew phrases centralized around common day-to-day topic.  In hope of releasing these phrase books, we hope to extend the Teochew language and its continuation in our daily language (at least the common phrases) :)

And if you have not guessed it already, the topic of this month's phrase book is TIME.  Please check it out at our Phrase Book Page.

Enjoy,

-Khiem

Learn Teochew Nursery Rhymes

Teochew videos are few and far between.  Even more uncommon are Teochew nursery rhymes.  So when Peng Boon shared with me videos of his grandkids reciting nursery rhymes, I thought this would be a good opportunity to share with the rest of the GGN community.  And if you're interested in learning yourself, well, you have some great teachers to help you along the way :)

Enjoy,

-Khiem

p.s. Thanks Peng Boon for creating the site and sharing with us.