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Home to my passions for my inter-cultural adventures, Gung Haggis Fat Choy: Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner event. Save Kogawa House campaign, Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team, Find what you are looking for by 1) scroll the topics links, 2) use the search function ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Join the Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team for lots of summer fun, fitness and friendship. We are a social team full of cultural vigor, that likes to eat. We have been featured on television, local, national and international. We have a unique and internationally famous fundraiser dinner event. We practice Sunday 1:30 pm -3:30 pm Tuesday 6pm-7:45pm Wednesday 6pm - 7:45 pm We meet at Dragon Zone clubhouse - just south of Science World in Creekside Park above the Aquabus and dragon boat docks. Our coach Todd Wong has 15+ years of experience including novice, recreational and competitive levels, and both community and corporate teams. Our 2005 Season brought us the David Lam Award for being the team that best represented the multicultural spirit of the Alcan Dragon Boat Festival, and Bronze medals at the Vancouver International Taiwanese Dragon Boat Race. In 2007, we won Gold in B Division at Vernon Races. For more information: Click on Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dragon Boat team information phone: 604-987-7124- e-mail: gunghaggis at yahoo dot ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2009 TICKETS Available in October 2008 WHAT: GUNG HAGGIS FAT CHOY: Toddish McWong's Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner - 12th Annual Dinner, celebrating 250th Anniversary of Robert Burns' birth + Chinese New Year's Eve. WHEN: 6PM January 25 2009, SUNDAY doors open 5pm WHERE: Floata Chinese Restaurant, #400-180 Keefer St. CULTURE: Our Performers create something special for us every year with traditional and contemporary performances featuring everything in-between and beyond! FOOD: A quirky fusion/mix/buffet of Scottish Canadian and Chinese Canadian culture 10 course Chinese banguet dinner 2004 - The debut of Gung Haggis Won-Ton 2005 - Haggis lettuce wrap! 2007 - Haggis dim sum appetizer buffet 2008 - Scotch tastings! Watch for more surprises in 2008! Description of 2006 Gung Haggis Fat Choy Dinner featuring performers: Rick Scott & Harry Wong, The Shirleys, Joe McDonald & Brave Waves, Sean Gunn, author Joy Kogawa, with co-host Prem Gill . Media Inquiries Call Gung Haggis Productions 604-987-7124 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsors
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Saturday, August 28
Sunday Dragon boat practice with Todd for Gung Haggis / Centre for Spiritual Living team
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Todd
on Sat 28 Aug 2004 10:53 AM PDT
Practice this Sunday will be shifted to 3pm at Plaza of Nations from 1:30pm. This is to accomodate a 1:00pm Tai Chi lesson which I am sure will really demonstrate the concepts of POWER VS FORCE that we have been integrating into the dragon boat practices.
11am - Church Service at Odd Fellows Hall
1443 West 8th Ave. on the Block immediately East of Granville St.
12:30pm - social time upstairs
1 to 2:30pm - Tai Chi lesson in main hall
3pm - 5pm - Dragon Boat practice at Plaza of Nations. more »
Friday, August 27
Review: Dr. Anthony Chan reading at Vancouver Public Library
by
Todd
on Fri 27 Aug 2004 11:17 PM PDT
Dr. Anthony Chan held a very lively and interesting discussion about his book Li Ka-Shing: Hong Kong's Elusive Billionaire at the Vancouver Public Library, Aug 27, 2004.
Chan told the story of how Li Ka-Shing truly rose from rags to riches, to become one of the most wealthy billionaires in the world, first developing plastic flowers and toothbrushes in the 1940's and 1950's to controlling many container ports in Mexico, Panama, and closer to home: having a 9% interest in CIBC beginning in 1973, and later developing the Concord Pacific Expo 86 site on Vancouver's False Creek waterfront. more »
Monday, August 23
Anthony Chan reads at Vancouver Public Library: New Book "Li-Ka Shing - Hong Kong's Elusive Billionaire"
by
Todd
on Mon 23 Aug 2004 11:06 PM PDT
Dr. Anthony Chan reads from his book "Li-Ka Shing: Hong Kong's Elusive Billionaire.
Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch
350 West Georgia Street, 7:30pm - FREE
The book examines the history and development of Hong Kong with the biography of Li-Ka Shing, a rags-to-riches success story.
http://www.vpl.ca/MDC/pdfs/chan.pdf more »
Monday, August 16
The Scots are Hot!!! Scots stereotypes in Advertising
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Todd
on Mon 16 Aug 2004 07:59 PM PDT
Check out this CBC.ca article on steretypes of Scots people in advertisting
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/features/scots_advertising/
INDEPTH: SCOTS IN ADVERTISING
In advertising, the Scots are hot
By Dan Brown, CBC News Online | July 15, 2004
It's hard not to notice how many television commercials have Scottish characters in them these days. From the guy who gets perturbed at bar patrons who don't treat Keith's beer with respect to the impossibly small spokesman for Kellogg's to the tight-fisted uncle in the Money Mart spots, the Scots are currently the most overrepresented minority in TV advertising.
Don't mistreat this beer or a surly Scot will yell at you (Photo Robin Rowland)
It's hard not to notice these characters for one simple reason: they yell a lot. In fact, they behave exactly as non-Scottish people expect the Scottish to behave: they're quick to anger and slow to spend money. They're stereotypes, in other words. more »
Friday, August 13
I am guilty of Brigadoonery in Canada
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Todd
on Fri 13 Aug 2004 01:46 PM PDT
I discovered this web site: Brigadoonery Canada. A comic tribute to all things Scottish. http://www.durham.net/~neilmac/
Brigadoonery Canada presents new and improved. ... Brigadoonery, noun: What often happens when people who were not born in Scotland pretend to be Scottish anyway. ... more »
Chinatown Streetfest features DJs, Breakdancers, and Import Cars & Night Market - Saturday, August 14,
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Todd
on Fri 13 Aug 2004 01:25 PM PDT
Chinatown Streetfest features DJs, Breakdancers, and Import Cars
The beat hits the street, and Chinatown becomes C-Town like never before. Saturday, August 14 at Chinatown Night Market.
Some of the Lower Mainland's hottest hip-hop DJs will hit the stage. Hedspin, Seko, Sage, and Pluskratch have already confirmed. The night's MC will be Alexis Mazurin, national host of CBC Radio 3. more »
Wednesday, August 11
Dragon boat with Todd Wong - Dragon Boat Coach
by
Todd
on Wed 11 Aug 2004 11:46 AM PDT
I have raced dragon boats since 1993 and began coaching teams in 1995. I have also studied Sports Psychology, Athletics and Kinesoilogy in addition to taking coaching clinics with the National Coaching Certification Program and False Creek Racing Canoe Club. This article gives a background to my experience, methods and coaching style. more »
Come paddle in the Sep 4 Vancouver Taiwanese Dragon Boat race at Plaza of Nations
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Todd
on Wed 11 Aug 2004 11:37 AM PDT
We have FUN paddling opportunites for dragon boat enthusiasts.
August 21 - barrel racing in Seattle on Lake Union (free)
Sep 4th - Taiwanese dragon boat racing at Plaza of Nations ($39)
Both of these events will be lots of fun. Barrel racing has never been done before... Taiwanese dragon boat racing requires you to grab a flag just before the finish line... more »
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