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Samantha Pak

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I tell people what to read on @nwasianweekly and write/edit for @joysauce_. I also dance, paddleboard and go upside down. A lot. I’m a complex creature.
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Meet Bijoya Das, the mind behind UCLA’s viral floor routines

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By Samantha Pak
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As a teenage gymnast, Bijoya “BJ” Das and her teammates spent team sleepovers choreographing dances to perform for each other. She would also take drop-in dance classes outside of practice, and bring what she learned to the gym and lead the team in dance warm-ups. One day, after one such warm-up, her coach pulled her aside and told her that she could be in music videos.
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442: Larry Kwong blazed the trail for Asian diasporic athletes in professional hockey

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By Samantha Pak
| JoySauce Verified
As a teen, Kwong led his team, the Vernon Hydrophones, to a youth championship of British Columbia in 1939, and a provincial juvenile title two years later. When he was 18, he skipped the junior ranks and immediately joined the senior ranks after trying out for the Trail Smoke Eaters, an elite semi-professional team in Trail, British Columbia. In Trail, players who made the roster were also given good-paying jobs at a local smelter.
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The not-so-secret world of Cindy Pham

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By Samantha Pak
| JoySauce Verified
From Hollywood to literature, there is no shortage when it comes to retellings of the classics. The Lion King is based on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. She’s the Man is The Bard’s Twelfth Night. While Clueless and Fire Island are based on Emma and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, respectively.
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