There will be a TASA families sometime soon! So watch for it.

We will be going to Penn this Saturday for the Penn PTS Basketball Tournament. It is a charity basketball game sponsoring Hep B vaccinations. You don’t have to play, you can just come to hang out. It’s from 2-5PM, but we are meeting at the Dinky at 9:45AM to catch the 10AM train so we can have lunch beforehand. Bring money for lunch and train tickets. If you are interest, email Alex.

TASA, along with JSA and AASA will be serving delicious Mochi in the Mathey Common Room on Friday, November 7th, from 9-11PM. Come and say hi!

KASA will be holding its fall banquet, Moonlight Seoul-nata, featuring Neah Lee, this Friday 6-8 PM at Chancellor Green. Admission is $7 if you RSVP to (kasa@) before midnight on Wednesday, $9 otherwise.

Professor Chong-Pin Lin, KMT Vice-Minister of Defense, will be giving a presentation on Tuesday, November 18 at 4:30 PM in Jones 202. This event is sponsored by the EAS Department.

Asian American Social Activism Week is this week! Stop by Frist between 10 AM to 10 PM to learn about the Asian American Donorship Program, Becky Lee’s Fund to fight domestic violence, and other ways to get involved. This week Becky Lee, a winner of Survivor: Cook Islands, will be in McCosh 28 at 8:30 PM on November 7 to give a keynote.

Grace Taiwanese Presbyterian Church is offering a Thanksgiving Dinner at 2 PM in Lawrenceville on November 30. Transportation will be determined closer to the date.

There will be a Jay Chou concert in Connecticut on December 21st. Contact Alex Shih if interested.

Tasa Families have been determined and all participants should get an e-mail soon letting them know who their family members. Everyone in a TASA family will receive our special 10% discount TASA Members card as well as tender, loving care from their family. Parents will be expected to treat their kids to a meal rather soon, so look forward to it!

Duke TASA will be visiting Princeton this Sunday (10/12) to visit their fellow TASA members. We’ll be meeting them at the U-Store parking lot at 4:30 PM. If you are interested in coming, shoot us an e-mail and we’ll keep you up to date. We’ll have ice breakers, chill time, dinner, and then a presentation by Duke about ITASA.

TASAssins is LIVE! Get the killin’ on.

Rules, for those who failed to get them.

The Rules of TASAssins:

Winners / Prizes:

Prizes will be awarded to the survivor and the person with the most kills. The prizes will be Super Soaker water guns and a gift certificate to Bent Spoon.

God Updates:

The Gods will report on the death toll daily, as well as how they happened (in a hilarious manner). Please give us details about your kill so we can publish a more interesting story. After all, nobody wants a boring death.
Basic Rules:

You will be assigned someone to kill on Sunday, and someone will be assigned to kill you. To kill someone, you must shoot the victim (or some extension of them, e.g. clothing and backpack) with the water gun we provided. Once you kill your victim, your victim must pass on the name of their victim. The kill should be reported within 24 hours to Michael (mmwu@princeton.edu), otherwise the kill will not qualify (even if you report to the other gods…this helps with processing time).

TASA T-shirts (you can still purchase one for $10)
If you are wearing your TASA T-shirt, you receive IMMUNITY. This means that you cannot be killed while you are wearing your shirt. However, You may NOT wear your TASA shirt ON TWO CONSECUTIVE DAYS. That means at maximum you may wear your shirt only every other day. If you put your TASA shirt on, that counts for the whole day. You are allowed to wear the shirt until you go to sleep (meaning you can wear it past midnight).

Bikes, skateboards, scooters, moving golf carts, moving vehicles
Due to risk of injury, you cannot kill someone riding one of these, and you can not do a drive-by shooting on one of these. You must fully dismount before you can shoot, or you must wait for them to fully dismount before you can shoot. Parked golf carts and cars are OK.

Locations that grant IMMUNITY:
You cannot shoot someone in a bathroom. You cannot run into a bathroom to escape your killer for the sole purpose of avoiding your killer. Killers cannot trap a person in a bathroom (you must grant them 2 minutes of immunity from the time they exit the bathroom and cannot follow them).
You cannot shoot someone attending class. You may trap someone in their classroom, and may kill them when the professor hasn’t started or is done lecturing.
Arbitration:
Sometimes the rules are not clear or do not cover every possible situation. If you would like to challenge a kill, you must report to the Gods within 24 hours of the incident. The Gods will with their best judgment determine your status.

Honor Code:
Not the same as for the exams, but play fairly and with good judgment.

We still want willing and enthusiastic freshmen for Frosh Council! As Frosh Council, you’ll learn about how TASA works and what we do, and be able to plan cool events too! You can hang out with our coolest board members minus myself and with other awesome freshmen. So sign up by sending an email to tasa@ by Sunday night.

Also, if you want to be part of a TASA family as either a parent or a kid, also send an email to tasa@ by Sunday night. It’s really fun as parent and as a kid, I swear, so do it.

You can also sign up for TASAssins, in which you get to kill other people with water guns and earn a really awesome prize. Sign up by Saturday. We will be passing out guns and selling TASA T-shirts in Frist on Saturday and Sunday. TASA T-shirts are $10 and give you immunity for one day.

We’re also forming a Jello Wrestling team, so tell us if you are interested (send an email, as always). This will be this coming Saturday, the 27th.

The freshmen banquet will be in Murray Dodge Cafe on Thursday, September 18th, at 6:00pm.

Freshmen get in free, everyone else is $3.00.

Lots of things are happening as we get back into the swing of things!

First off, there is a Mid-Autumn Festival hosted by CSA, HKSA, and TASA on Sunday, 9/14 from 9-10:30 PM in the Rocky Common Room. Come join us for mooncakes! TASA will be providing bubble tea.

Next, TASA will be having a Frosh Banquet sometime next week, location and time TBA.

On Saturday, 9/20, CSA will be hosting the annual NYC trip. Come for Dim Sum and Karaoke! Meet at 9:40 AM at the Dinky. You will have to pay for your own Dim Sum, but Karaoke is provided by CSA. Transportation is free because NJ transit is free that week. Get your free coupon here and make sure to bring it and your student ID along.

After the CSA Dim Sum and Karaoke event, AASA / AAMP is hosting Kick Off in the City at the Rooftop Cafe at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 4PM-7PM on the same day. Meet AASA upperclassmen and alumni!

HI EVERYONE!

Asian Night Market 2008 is coming up, NEXT FRIDAY, the 18th! It’s on Frist North lawn, from 7-10PM.

FREE Admission, and $1 for 4 food and activity tickets.

Featuring performances by:

Qin Zhi Lau ‘11
Triple 8
Sympoh
Naacho
and BLIP BLIP BLEEP

Also there will be a singing contest and a kimchi eating contest!

Night Market will be awesome, so come!

Come to TASA’s Annual Spring Banquet!
Our theme this year is Taipei Night Lights- so dress to impress!

It’s on Saturday, March 29, 7:00PM - 9:00PM in the Mathey Common Room.

Featuring delicious food from Shanghai Park, bubble tea, and a special guest performance by the Audiologues!

Admission is $6 with RSVP, $8 at the door.
RSVP to the facebook event or to tasa@princeton.edu.

The facebook event is located at:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=23141958752

There is an International Festival from March 28th to 27th. Each week will celebrate a different culture. Asian Week will be Week 3 (April 11-18), and is the same week of Nightmarket!

TASA will have rice with beef on it for the KASA Rice study break.

The Dumpling Study Break is officially March 27th, 10PM, in the Mathey Common room. Come try out “dumplings” from various different cultures!