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I grew up in transition of everything: Vespa to Honda, Toi/moi to you/I. Everything: francs-dollars, colonialism to a country with different flag color on each side of the partition. Music and magazine once in French (Voulez vous parler Francais – Do you speak English, English?), un deux trois – you’re number ten, I number one”)…
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Nature has plenty to teach us. No beauty could ever surpass the fresh bloom of a flower, wild one more counting. Tip of the iceberg to deceive us all about what’s buried (unseen) underneath. And the snowball, started out on top with just a squeeze to harden the “snow” ball, then critical mass at the…
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Modern times, changin times, a time they are a’changin… Just wait, wait, wait some more…it will come back, fads and fashion, the look and feel of yesterday. (e.g. Material girl…Madonna). Since the contour of the Earth is round, chances are “it”, whatever it maybe, will come back. Except we won’t be around to recognize its…
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A few decades ago, we were discussing (as the internet had barely emerged on the scene) “the death of distance”… At the same time, Clinton had a good run with “the information superhighway” ..so good that Al Gore had time to talk “truth”, albeit “inconveniently” and eventually sold his network to al jazeera whose focus…
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1954 Bac 54 (Northern transplant e.g. Bui Chu, Phat Diem) 1975 Barge (and every other modes of transport) people – Viet refugees 1979-onward Boat People and associated stigma 1990=till the close of ODP (orderly departure pg) reuniting families of American/Vietnam? war 2000-today, legal and illegal tourist and overstay visas….. Dates that define us. Dates that…
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Honorable as a virtue is time-tested. In war or peace, man or woman, acts of valor or kindness were enduring if not eternal e.g. Joan of Arc, Mother Theresa, St Francis of Assisi, Thich Q Duc, Martin Luther King and Albert Sweizer… They died young and left solid imprints. Their stories are worth to repeat…
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At one time or another, certain fads e.g. bell-bottom, lambada …. rose to prominence, partly due to our diminishing attention span. They gained traction and with upward trajectory, in today’s parlance, with the most “Likes” (dopamine) top 20% ranking, with 80% critical mass followers, before the law of Diminishing Return kicks in. In short, fade…
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Recently I lost a friend, but then mysteriously, I found on fb a bunch of long-lost ones. The high-school 1974 yearbook (I was away from the site for more than 2 years). B/w photos of each student and student council. 1974 marked the first and only SAT graded by IBM in SVN. Our Luddite teachers…
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Koa weighed about 4 plus pounds. We saw he get my friend’s genes most notably the resemblance in those eyes. Crying eyes. Like my friend’s sister eyes, red-eye flown in from Canada to attend next-of-kin funeral. Phung, Phi, Phong and Phat. Of the 4 P’s, only Phi left to carry the burden of memories: a…
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