I am so happy to write my first blog post! I really appreciate the awesome Obama Biden leadership, the campaign team and this fabulous website! Congratulations and thank you so much! This is a wonderful way to share and connect!
By way of a little background, my heritage is Asian American from Hawaii. I graduated from Columbia University in New York, majored in economics. I love Washington D.C. I have been in D.C. since I came to complete my Masters and Ph.D. majoring in economics and international relations from GWU. My passion is achieving human potential and promoting community service and social entrepreneurship. I love making new contacts and developing new win-win-win relationships.
I look forward to meeting you at the free monthly networking community events that I help to organize as president of Allies Building Community Inc. (A.B.C.) so people of diverse backgrounds can regularly come together to network, bond, know and appreciate each other as fellow members of the human family! This is a good way to introduce friends and allies to each other to start conversations for possibilities. I look forward to meeting you at one of these meetings. The next one is on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009.
On the third Sundays of every month in 2009, from 12:30PM to 2:30PM, our Meetup Alliance for Networking comes together to explore opportunities for community service, to make new contacts, exchange ideas, develop new friendships and build community spirit! We have networking conversations over lunch (self-pay) at the Burma Restaurant, 740 6th St. NW 2nd Floor, Wash. DC 20001. This is about one block from the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro station (red, green, yellow lines). (We chose the Burma Restaurant because they have good food, are near the Chinatown Metro stop, and they give us the entire restaurant for our regular monthly event.)
A little more background: A.B.C. (Allies Building Community), its friends and associates, were instrumental in the creation The Friendship Archway bringing together Wash. D.C. and Beijing as "Sister Cities". Located next to the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro station at 7th and H Streets NW, DC., it is the widest single span Chinese archway in the world. Unlike most monuments in Wash. DC that look to the past, the Friendship Archway looks to the future, a strong visual symbol for bridging the joint East-West, Chinese and American aspirations for peace, friendship and cooperation. China and America will be the two leading economic superpowers in the 21st century. The Friendship Archway commemorates their necessary interdependence.
The Friendship Archway physically symbolizes how to bridge over superficial differences by focusing on shared ideals and by working together to develop many effective solutions for generating more joy, friendship and prosperity for all. For more information, see http://www.archway2.org/ or http://www.meetup.com/networking/ or http://www.meetupalliance.com/conversationsNET/ My friends and I look forward to meet you on the 3rd Sundays of each month in Downtown Wash. DC! Please feel free to invite your friends and allies to meet us at the Burma Restaurant. Meetup.com/networking/ will send you monthly reminders if you sign up free of charge.
Our free monthly get-togethers are about appreciation, joy, fun, good humor, nonjudgment, nonattachment, unconditional Love and acceptance, sharing perspectives and developing community around your passion or cause. We believe all of us can make A Bigger Contribution by giving our positive energy to the world! You and I can change and be more powerful generators of Loving energy. You and I can give more gifts of hope, appreciation and friendship. We can all make a difference by choosing to focus on we want for ourselves, for others and for the community. Let's BE the change by becoming more aware of our subjective perceptions and attitudes. Let's help to spread happiness, locally and globally, on land and online!
My friends and I want more than just the absence of war or violence. We want to build an infrastructure of communications, mutual trust, good will and friendship among people of diverse backgrounds. Let's choose to reflect a change or improvement in our attitude, behavior and choices. We look forward to meeting you at our next Meetup Alliance community get-together in Wash. D.C.! Aloha!
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