National Knocked Up Night

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Cafe Japone and Universal Studios Home Entertainment are inviting comedy fans to celebrate "National Knocked Up Night" on September 25th, the official DVD release date of the hilarious comedy hit Knocked Up and the unofficial excuse to celebrate in ways left strictly to the imagination.
On September 25th, in a salute to the year's most anticipated comedy DVD release, Cafe Japone and friends (DC APA FILM, NAAAP-DC, DC RED CARPETS, etc.) will offer an array of specially created Knocked Up merchandise and promotional prizes to guests.

CHECK OUT the Knocked Up 2-Disc Collector's Edition DVD featuring hilarious deleted scenes, outtakes, gag reels, video diaries from director Judd Apatow, "screen tests" of actors who were fired before Seth Rogen was hired, and much, much more.

The intimate sushi lounge, Cafe Japone in Dupont Circle is on for Tuesday the 25th. Doors open at 9pm and there will be a happy hour till 11pm with:

• $3 shots
• $4 Sake bombs & Budweiser

Where: Cafe Japone 1140 19th St. NW Washington, DC

Tell your friends and come on out.

See you then!!

P.S. Don't forget about the 8th Annual DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival!! Opening night this Thursday at AFI theaters with "FINISHING THE GAME" at 7pm. Also plenty of afterparties and events. Check it out: www.apafilm.org/2007

Upcoming Events - See you there!

NAAAP: Tennis Outing
10/7/07 @ 2pm

Final Tennis Outing (with lessons) of the Season Come on out and meet other avid tennis players for some fun rallying, friendly competition, socializing and tennis lessons provided by Jacky Cheong. Jacky is a USPTA Coach with over 12 years playing experience and a USTA ranked tournament player in the Mid-Atlantic. He has been teaching beginners and experienced players alike for over 9 seasons. Please contact Jacky at datennis@gmail.com to schedule private/group lessons.

Mention NAAAP.org in the email and you will receive 10% off his normal rate. Jacky can also hep you pick out the right racket. Demo rackets available on the day of this event for you to test out. Participating students will also receive bargain discounts on tennis apparel, shoes and equipment.

Please bring a can of unopened tennis balls, plenty of water, sunscreen and of course your tennis racket.

Please look for Dave Tam when you arrive. Dave can be identified by his black Wilson tennis bag. Once you RSVP, Dave will e-mail you his cell phone number to reach him that day to locate him and the group on the courts.

Please be sure to go to www.naaapdc.org to RSVP. Open to non-members as well. H owever, your $25 annual membership fee will help us to keep NAAAP-DC in existence to promote these events.

NAAAP: Ghosts of Georgetown Walking Tour
10/12/07 @ 8pm

Ghosts of Georgetown Walking Tour among the historic streets, manicured gardens, and Victorian row houses of DC's finest neighborhood, lies deep, dark secrets about a forgotten past. Come along to hear about the ghosts and spirits that still haunt our fine little city . . . if you dare. The tour will be provided by Mobile Tours ( www.mobiletours.org) and will last 1 hour and 15 minutes.

We can hangout in Georgetown for drinks/dessert/coffee after the walk to take in the nightlife there . . . that is if we haven't been scared away! =) Please be sure to go to www.naaapdc.org to RSVP. Open to non-members as well. However, your $25 annual membership fee will help us to keep NAAAP-DC in existence to promote future events.

Pros In The City: Asian Speed Dating
10/24/07 @ 7:30pm

This event is not a NAAAP sponsored event. Pros In The City is hosting this event. The Asian Four Minute Dating Singles Party is one of our most popular singles events so don't miss out. We are focusing this event on our Asian members! Anyone is welcome, but this event is primarily for people who want to meet Asian members of Professionals in the City. Are you single in the city? Would you like to meet other interesting, professional and fun singles while cutting through all the hoopla of the "first date" scene?

Professionals in the City has the solution for you! Here's your opportunity to experience a approximately twenty first dates in only one evening of frolic and excitement. During our Four Minute Dating Singles Party, you'll meet approximately twenty intriguing members of the opposite sex within one hour - spend four sweet minutes with each new acquaintance. The excitement will be contagious all evening! But here's the best part: when the hour ends, you'll get to write personal notes by email to someone that you'd like to get to know. You can write whatever you wish - a friendly "hello", with your name and phone number perhaps. Maybe you'd like to be a bit more adventuresome and ask someone out for a date! But that's not all! After "dating hour," join us for a night of mixing, mingling and more introductions! There will be a cash bar for this eventful evening, so come and meet other single professionals like yourself and have the time of your life! Please Our Four Minute Dating Singles Party is one of our most popular singles events so don't miss out.

Tonight, we are focusing this event on our Asian members! Anyone is welcome, but this event is primarily for people who want to meet Asian members of Professionals in the City.

Please visit https://www.prosinthecity.com/index.cfm?cityid=1&action=orderform&eventid=4601 to register. Price: $15.00 if purchased by 5 p.m. Friday, September 28.

So come on out to these cool events and meet some new people! Looking forward to catching up with you guys at these events! Please, please spread the word! Thanks in advance for your help!

Recap | Tastebuds NAAAP-DC Dinner Series at Satay Sarinah

Thanks to all the folks that came out to Satay Sarinah (http://sataysarinah.com/homepage.htm) for the first ever "Tastebuds" NAAAP-DC Dinner Series event. Special thanks to Chef Sony and Sonya for the great food and hospitality!

Group shot


Ellen and Jean

Vincent and Jeff

Beef Satay

Chive Tips with Tofu

The Indonesian menu selected by Chef Sony included:
1. Resoles Sarinah / Sarinah Egg Rolls
Fried, breaded soft crepe filled with marinated ground beef and vegetables.
2. Ikan Bumbu Bali / Balinese Fish Filet
Fresh fish filet, lightly battered and topped with a Balinese hot and spicy sauce.
3. Ayam Bumbu Rujak / Hot & Spicy Grilled Chicken
Grilled chicken deep marinated in a hot and spicy coconut-milk based sauce.
4. Sate Makassar / Beef Satay
5. Bakmi Goreng / Fried NoodlesIndonesian egg noodles stir fried with chicken and vegetables using Indonesian herbs and spices.
6. Chive tops with Fried Tofu
7. Pisang Goreng
Traditional Indonesian fried bananas.
or
Es Campur
Mixed tropical fruits including lychee, pineapple, young coconut, jackfruit, and grass jelly topped with shaved ice, pandan syrup, and milk.

Recap | Lotus Networking Happy Hour

Hope y'all had fun at the happy hour at Lotus Lounge on Thursday, Sept. 13! Around 200 folks showed up from various asian associations in the DC Metro area. Here are some pics...

More photos
http://picasaweb.google.com/NAAAPDC/LotusLoungeNetworkingHappyHour

Sandy, Jimmy, Wendy (NAAAP-DC Vice Prez) and friend

Wuiping and Dave (NAAAP-DC Board members) and new friends

Christian (NAAAP-DC Prez and Josh from APA Film)

Miko and Wendy. Happy Birthday, Miko!!!!

September 2007 Upcoming Events - Mark your calendars!!!

Collaborative Young Asian Professionals Happy Hour at Lotus Lounge
September 13, 2007 6:00PM - 9:30PM

The last co-sponsored happy hour we helped organize was filled to the brim with new people. So help spread the word, and come network, socialize, and meet new people!

Opportunity Conference
Grand Hyatt Washington, 1000 H Street NW, Washington, D.C., 20001
September 18, 2007 9AM - 5PM

NAAAP is proud to be a Partner for the 2007 Annual Opportunity Conference here in the DC area.

In 2003 and 2004, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao hosted national Opportunity Conferences in Washington, D.C. In 2005, Secretary Chao hosted the regional Opportunity Conference in Chicago. The 2006 Opportunity Conference was held in Philadelphia. In 2007, the Opportunity Conference returns to Washington, D.C. on September 18.

Celebrating the contributions of the region's Asian Pacific, Hispanic and African American communities, this free Opportunity Conference will emphasize key components of economic development and working with federal, state, and local government. Workshop topics will include access to capital, job training, financial literacy, understanding federal procurement opportunities, addressing the needs of workers with limited English proficiency and accessing faith-based and community grants.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER FOR THIS FREE EVENT GO TO: http://www.opportunityconference.gov/


"Tastebuds" - the NAAAP-DC Dinner Club at Satay Sarinah in Alexandria VA
September 19, 2007 7:30PM

Fellow Foodies,

NAAAP-DC is rolling out it's first NAAAP DC Dinner Club Series event at Satay Sarinah
Come out and join the NAAAP-sters for some authentic Indonesian food at Satay Sarinah. Chef Sony will be cooking up a pre-fixed feast that will satistify even the most discriminating palate. Guaranteed to be a food gourmet's delight. This will be the 1st in the series of monthly dinner get togethers at restaurants around the DC Metro area. So come out and join the "Tastebuds" group.

RSVP today to reserve your spot!

Cost = Set Price will be $30 or less (includes tax, tip, and non-alcoholic beverages)

Satay Sarinah
512-A South Van Dorn Street
Alexandria, VA
Telephone: (703) 370-4313
http://www.sataysarinah.com/


Voter Registration and Electoral Education Event in Sterling, Virginia
September 23, 2007 3PM - 6PM

NAAAP-DC is proud to be an active participant for this important event. Please come out to support and learn!!

Voter Registration Electoral Education Solidarity

American Dream Alliance invites you to an afternoon of fun, friendship, and civic awareness

Algonkian Regional Park — Shelter 1
(47001 Fairway Drive, Sterling, Virginia 20165)
Sunday, September 23, 2007
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Directions:
To reach Algonkian Regional Park from the Beltway (I-495),
· take Route 7 west 11 miles to Cascades Parkway north, and
· drive 3 miles to the park entrance.

If you are a registered voter, please bring your voter registration card and enter a raffle to win a mystery prize !

American Dream Alliance is a non-profit, non-partisan group that is made up of a body of individuals, organizations and businesses which share the vision of a Virginia welcoming to all and actively engaging in creating an inclusive Commonwealth. The mission of the Alliance is to support New Americans in Virginia by creating a welcoming and positive environment for all people through dialogue and reconciliation that will transform our neighborhoods and communities with a spirit of inclusiveness offering everyone an equal opportunity to live the American dream.

Participants:

• Asian American Justice Center
• Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center
• ASTRACOR
• El Pueblo Unido
• Equality Loudoun
• La Voz de Loudon
• NAACP Loudoun
• NCIC
• Tenants and Workers United
• Unity in the Community
• Virginia Coaltion of Latino Organizations – VACOLAO
• National Association of Asian American Professionals – DC Chapter
  

Sponsor: Virginia Muslim Political Action Committee – VMPAC

8th Annual DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival at Various Venues in the DC Metropolitan Area

September 27 - October 6, 2007

The 2007 DC APA Film Festival in partnership with APA Film, a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a nonprofit arts service organization. Asian Pacific American (APA) Film is a non-profit organization devoted to encouraging the artistic developed of APA media artists and raising public awareness of APA media arts through an annual festival and other events in the Washington, D.C. area.

OPENING NIGHT FILM WILL BE AT AFI THEATERS IN SILVER SPRING - Justin Lin's FINISHING THE GAME will have it's Washington Premiere.

Check out http://www.apafilm.org/ on Sept. 17 for full schedule and details.

NAAAP-DC is specifically the supporting community sponsor of the Oct. 4 screening at Landmark E St. Cinema of: DARK MATTER Directed by Chen Shi-Zheng. In his bold, chilling feature film debut, Chinese opera director Chen Shi-zheng examines the bitter politics of academia and the clashing of disparate cultures. Liu Ye (CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER) plays Liu Xing, a modest but brilliant graduate student from Beijing who comes to an American university to study the origins of the universe under famed cosmologist Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn). Recognizing the student's enormous talent, Reiser turns Liu Xing into his protege, bringing him to prestigious academic conferences and inviting him to department gatherings outside the classroom. As a foreigner in a new environment, Liu Xing is acclimated into American culture by the kind and well-meaning Joanna Silver, a wealthy university patron played by Meryl Streep, and an American waitress at a nearby cafe, with whom he strikes up a casual flirtation. During his tireless research on dark matter, the unseen substance that shapes the universe, Liu Xing stumbles across findings that threaten Reiser's established model. Against his professor's stern warnings, and blinded by his own ambitions, he publishes his sweeping dissertation, only to have it ultimately rejected. With a jobless, bleak future ahead of him, on top of the impending shame of his family back in China, he resorts to one final, cataclysmic act. Based loosely on true events that occurred at the University of Iowa in 1991, DARK MATTER won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize for best film relating to science or technology at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival

FOR MORE INFORMATION CHECK OUT: http://www.apafilm.org/

Dance Asia's Upcoming Performances!

DC meets Delhi Film Festival - Dance & Arts Day (FREE ADMISSION)
University of District of Columbia Auditorium
Sunday, September 9th 2007, 4:00 pm

Bollywood Extravaganza: The Ultimate Experience!
By Dance Asia Alliance - commissioned specially for the film festival

Lights, Camera, Action! India's premier film industry, better known as “Bollywood”, has churned out thousands of movies over the decades, entertaining not only millions of local fans but Indian movie fans worldwide. Along side the vibrant film trade, comes the unique “Bollywood's music & dance genre, which has always been the center of the films' attractions. The “Bollywood” craze has percolated into main stream club scenes, fitness circuits, dance circles; all culminating into the latest trends for both young & old. Dance Asia Alliance will be presenting 12 pieces of classic hits from the “Bollywood” genre - from a 1965 rock & roll piece to pure Bhangra tune, be prepared to be enthralled, dazzled & entertained by the sight, sound, colors & moves!!

For more information: http://www.udc.edu/dcmd/

Dance Asia Alliance is also performing at the Closing Reception of the DC meets Delhi Film Festival on Wednesday September 12th. Check out their website for more details!

Description of Group

The Alliance is a subsidiary coalition under “Dance Asia” (an annual dance showcase produced by Wuiping Yap), which draws its dancers from multiple leading Asian cultural dance groups in the region. Collaborating Artists in this performance include Natyabhoomi School of Dance, Sutera Malaysia, Dhoonya Dance School, Fairfax Cultural Dance Troupe & Burmese Dance Troupe

Dance DC -Dance Asia Festival (FREE ADMISSION)
Saturday, September 29, 2007 6:00 pm
Kennedy Center Millenium Stage

Dance Asia 2007, is in its 4th annual production, and is proud to be a part of Dance DC Festival again this year. The objectives of Dance Asia has been clear from its inception - to showcase the diversity of Asia through the Art of Movement; to raise public awareness on the intricacies of Asian dance forms; and to promote and cultivate interest in Asian dance culture.

This year's theme is "Asia in Nature - Earth, Rivers & Mountains”. Multiple local/regional Asian dance troupes will each present a dance segment that illustrates their ties to their natural environment. Through their movements and depictions, audiences will experience their love, pain, attachment, dependence, reverence as well as apprehension to their natural environment.
The Kennedy Center co-presents this festival with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

For more information: http://www.dancedcfestival.org/

Dance Asia Alliance is also performing at the Opening Ceremony of the Dance DC Festival on Friday September 28th, 2007. Check out their website for more details!