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Big rocks first. weeds and sand will cram and creep in over time. We are unable to face silence and serenity! or patience and perseverance. We have to exchange our inner for outer, what’s intrinsic and intangible for countable and measurable. Welcome to the age of monetizing and materializing everything: Costco carts or our garages,…
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From Kushner to Kamala: emphasizing the positives and erasing the negatives. Hire a ghost writer. Voila, leave behind the 4th L (legacy). Once I worked in the International Telecom field. Oh my! Customer data dump, on an Excel spreadsheet, showing long and winding last names: from Croatian to Pakistanis, from Chinese to Vietnamese. Had it…
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No stranger to push back. To divisiveness. First, it’s French Indochina (Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam). Then within Vietnam, North, Central and South (except for Cape St Jacques and Dalat for the Madames to escape scorching heat while hubbies slept with mistresses). Then 1954 partition of North and South at the 17th parallel (even today, North…
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We slowly unravel one scientific mystery after another: from Archimedes to Alzheimer, from Pasteur to Pluto. Then, bang, gone. Accumulated in a lifetime: memories, moments and misery, accidentally deleted. What made us who we are triumph and trail of burned bridges. Gone. From then, we just vegetate from one day to the next. Every day…
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“To make a dent in the universe”….”would you live your life the same way, knowing you have one more week to live”…”stay hungry, stay curious”…By now, you should recognise those quotes. So universally true. So simple yet profound. And worth-heeding since they came out of the mouth of our Next’s CEO. Next, next, next….that’s what…
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Fathers’ Day gift to you. Hearts touched with Fire, by David Gergen. Indisputable on every page. Like a good meal for our hard head and soft heart. Perhaps when it was rushed to print, Putin had not yet invaded Ukraine. Or else, we would have had a chapter on Zelensky. But for now, as far…
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Film studies 101 often showed The Birth of a Nation to lay the foundation for what’s to become of Hollywood. First silent feature film. Historical and technological, the later much faster. Visual impact with hoodies KKK’s riding into the sunset to rescue an America on the decline. “If you don’t fight like Hell, you wouldn’t…
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Saw Sidney Poitier’s In the Heat of the Night while in the heat of the day. He played a homicide detective from Philadelphia, on his way home with train connection through small town Sparta. That’s where it all happened: from mistakenly jailed for murder to being slapped (and slapping right back) for the color of…
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Summer 71 found me quarantined at home to nurse a broken arm. The injury happened right in my first month of practicing Hapkido. A lot of songs to pass the time. Summer breeze was hard to come about, in my small and S-shaped alley. Summer 75? needless to say, I was going nowhere, except to…
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When Bonjour Tristesse came out, I was too young to grapple with its significance. But French youth, and by way of colonial extension, made its way to my upper classmen as well (Buon oi! ta xin chao mi). A lot of suicide after the publication of the book, as I was told. “My heart has…
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