Musical Moments
This song was his first glimpse into alternative culture.
What is Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
Hua’s father left Taiwan for the United States in this year.
When is 1965
Hua’s mother left Taiwan in this year.
When is 1971
Hua skipped two years of this subject.
What is math?
Hua felt this way towards Ken when he first met him.
What is hating him?
Ken enjoys this type of music which Hsu initially thought was too mainstream.
What is pop music?
Hua’s father’s name
What is the Hsu Chung-Shih?
Hua questioned if she was on drugs when his mother did this activity.
What is painting?
Hua’s father does this when he is unable to respond to Hua’s homework questions that are faxed to him.
What is hiring tutors that don’t help much?
This made Hua revert to being the type of student who avoided putting himself out there and seldom said a word.
What is sharing an observation about Ernest Hemingway’s use of naming in English class, and a student and professor shut him down?
Hua considers this band to be concretely better than Pearl Jam but wonders if his friends agree.
What is Pavement?
Hua’s father moved back to Taiwan for this reason.
What is the corporate ladder, in which people advance because of arbitrary factors such as the color of one’s skin and the subtle quivers in one’s voice?
The mother’s top choice college at which she also met her husband is this college.
What is the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign?
Hua focuses on the school newspaper and debate club instead of math or science for this reason.
What is he felt he could improve at those things/He wanted to be good at those things to compensate for his bad math and science grades?
The difference between Southern California and Northern California is this.
What is Southern California is superficial and unserious, known for Disneyland and Hollywood, whereas Northern California is political and known for counterculture?
Hua’s father agrees with his son’s opinion that this band made him a Betterman, in my mind.
What is Pearl Jam?
Hua’s father and his friends’ ritual whenever a new grad student arrived in America was this.
What is to pile in the car to pick them up?
Hua’s mother advertised this in the ad that Hua found.
What are Chinese cooking lessons
Kurt Cobain’s death was anticlimactic for Hua for this reason.
What is he had mourned his passing a month before because of a rumor that spread through his high school, and his health had already been declining for years prior?
Hua was required to do this in the Peace and Conflict program.
What is resisting the impulse to blame anyone else for anything for a week
Hua’s father viewed these two “reinterpreted songs” as marvelous.
What are Mariah Carey’s I’ll Be There and Michael Bolton’s To Love Somebody
Hua’s father asked about this sports team in a fax.
Who are the Nicks (Knicks)?
The mother complains about the newer Chinese immigrants for this reason.
What is leaving their shopping carts in the parking lot?
Hua gets the software to make his zine by doing this.
What is telling his mom he needed it for college applications?
This was the one uniting factor between Northern/Bay Area Californians and Southern Californians.
What is they all wore Adidas Slides?