Wayne Chan
By Wayne Chan
Northwest Asian Weekly
I have been married for nearly 18 years.
You would think that by being an active participant in this blissful union, I would by now have a pretty good understanding of my wife, and even women in general. Read the full story
Wayne Chan
By Wayne Chan
Northwest Asian Weekly
“Maybe we should go to China this year.”
These are the eight words that immediately bring a shiver to my spine. Eight words that I have been dreading for the past two years.
These are the eight words my wife, Maya, used yesterday to officially announce that we will begin planning a family trip to China some time this year. Read the full story
Humor Columist Wayne Chan
By Wayne Chan
Northwest Asian Weekly
Sometimes, these columns just kind of write themselves.
In the last year, I wrote about tea leaf plucking monkeys in China that supposedly know how to pick tea leaves when they are good and ready. With my active mind, I immediately conjured up thoughts of the training process involved in training monkeys to pluck and deliver tea leaves and not other things like, say, a pair of shoes hanging from a telephone wire, an errant hub cap, or an old TV Guide from the 1970s. Read the full story
Columnist Wayne Chan
By Wayne Chan
Northwest Asian Weekly
I was beginning to lose my breath. Standing behind the tripod, centering my family in the camera’s viewfinder, and running back into the picture before the timer ran down to snap a picture ought to be easy enough.
By Wayne Chan
Northwest Asian Weekly
Humor Columnist Wayne Chan
People are hurting out there.
It goes without saying that our country, and much of the world, is going through an economic slump that no one under the age of 80 has really experienced. You might say that we are living in an age of loss — loss of our homes, loss of our employment, and loss of our sense of security.
Wayne Chan
By Wayne Chan
Northwest Asian Weekly
Quiet now. Keep your head down low. Don’t take your eyes off him. If he looks your way, keep still.
I know it may sound like I’m currently on a walk-about in some arid Australia outback, but I’m not. I’m not on some African safari either. Read the full story
