Contemplations

Hi and welcome to my blog; the musings of a Filipino-American writer, martial artist and teacher. Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to hearing what you have to say about what I have to say.

30 March, 2011

Cousins

Finally, for the first time since the summer before I got married, I visisted my sister and her family last weekend. It was my niece's c...

21 March, 2011

State Champion

Wow. Well, the New Jersey State Tae Kwon Do Championships are over and I've come out on top. I took first place in my division - the Men...

16 March, 2011

BambooMartial Arts

Hi. This is just a quick note. The website for my Tae Kwon Do school, Bamboo Martial Arts School Haha. I guess it's Tae Kwon Do week o...

Tae Kwon Do and Me - Perfect Together

The title of this post is a paraphrase of the New Jersey promo ads that I used to see on TV and hear on the radio when I moved to America in...

13 March, 2011

Fathers and Sons and Martial Arts

My son is something else. The past few months, Jude has come home from day care getting into martial arts stances and throwing kicks and p...

03 March, 2011

Dampa

I just read a comment in a friend's blog, about her experience enjoying dim sum on the weekend, that stated the person enjoys blogs abo...

01 March, 2011

Simple Pleasures

The last couple of weeks I'd been having a food craving but, up until last Wednesday, I didn't know what I wanted. My taste buds wer...

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About Me

Juan Rader Bas: Mabuhay! I'm an Asian American writer (Back Kicks And Broken Promises, Abbott Press, 2012), martial artist and teacher who was born in The Philippines, raised in Hong Kong and ended up in New Jersey.

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