Man, what a week. Went to the Post Office in Santa Ana to mail out a package because Amazon took forever to send in my package. And what does stupid Jen do. She accidently throws away her waiting number or whatever you call those. So I have to wait even longer in line. Ai-yo.

Then on Wednesday, I wrote freakin' 34 Christmas cards. And no not your generic "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" message, I wrote some personal Jen-of-Kuo-isms. Though some of you, who were at the bottom end of the alphabet in my address book or gave me your snail mail address last minute, I pity you, Jen was getting tired because it was in the 3 o'clock in morning and I was losing my mind (yes, even more so than normal) and I just wrote some of the most random shit. Sorry. But I'll be impressed if you can read my hieroglyphic handwriting. Yeah yeah see what the net has done to me. Bad internet bad.

Thursday morning then pops up and I have to wake up early to get to the press release in Santa Ana for the Asian on Asian hate crime that happen in Anaheim back in Oct. 20-21. Pretty good turn out from the media. Though I didn't see KCBS or LA Times. I expect better from LA Times since OC Register actually has been pretty decent in covering the story. CBS sucks in my opinion because they got rid of Tritia Toyota.

I don't know how effective the sketch will be because it looks like your generic young Asian male. Hopefully, the police department won't use it to profile Asian youth because that's been in problem in OC for awhile. And it doesn't help that one of the cars was a white Honda Civic.

But I hope someone comes up and speaks up. Because if you have information about this and are holding back info. You're accepting hate and another form of terrorism. The Southern Poverty Law Center has great reasons why we should combat hate. "10 Ways To Fight Hate". SPLC says it best "Do something. In the face of hatred, apathy will be interpreted as acceptance — by the haters, the public and, worse, the victim. Decency must be exercised, too. If it isn’t, hate invariably persists."

When Sundeep first told his story to us a few weeks ago I got the chance to sit right next to him. This was when his mouth was still completely wired shut. It's so sad to know how violent people can be. And can you believe this happen to him on his birthday? And the security guard just stood by. People who don't think hate crimes is an issue need to talk to victims of hate crimes. I'm sure you won't feel the same way afterwards. Watch "Who Killed Vincent Chin" and tell me you don't feel for his mother who never got justice.

I admire Sundeep and his family though because it's very courageous for him to speak up because many hate crime victims don't speak up especially within the APIA community. But I'm so glad he did. His sister even went to the various organizations that came out and thank them for their support (like me). 8) If you're interested in contacting Sundeep you can contact him at hatehurts911@hotmail.com

But if you're interested in helping out with the reward money we're still looking for people to help out. Make checks out to OCAPICA (Orange County Asian & Pacific Islander Community Alliance.) Contact me or Jason Lacsamana at jjlacs@ocapica.org for more info.

And for any of those interested in checking out what the sketch looks likes click here This is only one of the suspects.

But onto a happier subject-FOOD. Afterwards, a bunch of OCAPICA and APALC people went to Pat & Oscars to eat and talk. And I can see why they put breadstick as their web addy cuz it's good. I plan on trying their other yummy meals next time.