Archive for March, 2010

Springtime Tallahassee Parade

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

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42nd Springtime Tallahassee Parade

Saturday, March 27, 2010; 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM

Tallahassee, Florida, USA

 

Today we participated in the 42nd Springtime Tallahassee Parade. Our participationin the Springtime Tallahassee parade for the third year in a row was  as a partner of Asian Coalition of Tallahassee. India Associaiton of Tallahassee members both adults and children, all clad in Indian attire,  and other members of the Indian community enthusiastically joined us as early as 8:00 AM. Then many members of ACT joined the group. In all we had about 70-80 people ready when the parade started at 10:30 AM. We were assigned slot number 103. We followed a local high school band. We walked the parade route for about 1.25 mile from the intersection of Third Avenue and North Monroe Street via Mahan Drive to all the way to Gaines Street and South Monroe Street intersection. By the time the parade ended it was about 12:15 PM.

Census PSA

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Record a video PSA

Leon County Sunshine Census 2010

 I was referred to Leon County Sunshine Census 2010 committee by a friend of mine. I then appeared at a local studio to record a video Public Service Announcement to promote the Census 2010. The PSA will run during the month of April encouraging everyone to return the completed Census form.

Start Manickkam Drama Practice

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Manickkam Drama PracticeSunday, March 07, 2010; 5:00 to 6:00 PMTallahassee, FL 32317We began practicing for Manickkam Mattinaan (மாணிக்கம் மாட்டினான் )  comedy Tamil drama at home. We had about six kids.

Judging the Pageant

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Judging the Pageant

 

AASU Pageant

 

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 6-8 PM

I was invited by the AASU at FSU to be one of the judges (out of 3) for the Mister and Miss Asian American Student Union. This was my first experience as a pageant judge and I was nervous as the participants before the event began. We had about dozen participants and this was the preliminary interview. As the event progressed both the participants and I became comfortable and I was happy to be part of the process.

ACT Interview

Monday, March 1st, 2010

ACT Interview

Monday, March 1, 2010

Tallahassee, FL 32306

A student at School of Library and Information Studies at the FSU College of Communication and Information (www.slis.fsu.edu) interviewed me as part of his course requirement. For his Master’s project he needed to talk to a community leader and find out about the needs of the community. Using the census data he narrowed the selection of the community to Asians. Then using the Internet he found my name and sent an e-mail for the interview. You can see the interviews questions and answers here.

ACT Interview Questions and Answers