Next was the Lao Family election last December. One that I found flawed to begin with. Our election process was so flawed, it makes you wonder who came up with the idea. The election was meant to be open to the Hmong public. I don't know what they mean by open, but if you didn't registered, you were not allowed to vote. To me, this was a private club or membership vote. If you were a Hmong and showed your residency in Minnesota, you should be allowed to vote. Instead, they passed out voting registration forms. You had to fill out this form before you can vote. The form included all of the information that was on your driver's license or MN ID card. 

May 21st is fast approaching. Many may not know what May 21, 2011 is, but many believes that this is the Second Coming of Christ. I'm not religious or concerned about the event, but many of the Hmong do. This reminds me of the Y2k. News media were portraying that the Y2K glitch were going to cause mass distruptions and some believed that the world was going to end. How did this event affect the Hmong? During that time, many of the Hmong sold their homes, pulled their children out of schools, stored food rations and water, gas and other materials to survive should something happened. The worst was the families that moved back to Laos or Thailand believing that if they were to die, it would be better dead in your place of birth. Y2k came and nothing happened. We now have another one, May 21, 2011. I've heard from a few rumors going around in the Hmong community for people to repent and be saved. Since our culture is not a singular religion, there is a rift between the "old" belief and the "new". Some of the...

KDWB is a local radio station in Minnesota. Their morning show is listened by many Hmong. The morning show has a parody song on certain subjects. At times they are funny, but there are times they aren't. This week, KDWB played a short parody on the Hmong. Below is the clip on YouTube. You would think that they would have run it through some type of approval first before saying it over the radio. Somehow their excuse is that they have many Hmong listeners who understands that they are joking on the radio and its ok for them to keep slamming it. I've heard many of their parody on the Hmong and some time wonder do we, Hmong, accept this and let them continue to do it? I think we're the group that KDWB Morning Show pick on the most when it comes to parody songs. It's like the little kid that gets picked on by the school bully whenever the bully wants to. The one thing that is disturbing here is that Clear Channel who owns KDWB, is not saying much about it except for a weak apology. When comments like this...

Since the announcement of the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile last week, it would be not be good news to cell phone users. I have been using T-Mobile for the past four years and like their data plans. I rarely use voice minutes. Even though T-Mobile's cell phones were not the best, they offered the best data plans. Tethering has been a plus on TMO. I've had the HD2 when it first came out and I've been using it as a modem for my laptop. In addition, their family plans allow my kids to get access to the Internet and YouTube at a cheaper price than with other carriers.