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It feels as though a thousand pounds have just been lifted from my chest as I hear fireworks and even gun shots (Texas) marking 2021 arrival. Like an approaching train that is finally here. The beginning of the beginning. The Big Reset. Well, I even re-started my laptop. And I shed some old skin and…
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Of course I want to know what’s going on, where to find fish and where to avoid the lions. Thanks to those cave-paintings. It must have been painstaking to carve into rocks for instructions’ sakes. From oral tradition to print tradition (Silk-Road written contracts), from electronics communication to digital communication, we want to get out…
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I should just leave this blog blank. That way, you, the reader can just “read-into” it, before a single line is penned. Such is the nature of pre-judging (a priori). All men are mortal alright. But it is also true, all men/women carry a set of pre-conceived notions and expectations about life and its potential.…
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First the disease. Then the vaccine. Finally the rush to spend to line people up for a jab. Who are we going to enlist? Dead Presidents? X-Presidents? Or Presley (Elvis). It’s called “pair-association”. The “Like” factor i.e. if I like Lady Gaga, I am more likely to buy VOCE VIVA. Entertainment (pleasant) and Medicine (unpleasant)…
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Whatever happened will soon be behind us. A long dark night!. Death tolls… sadness and sorrow. Urban and rural, college campuses and on-line courses. Vaccines are shipped. We got our proverbial email notice: “Help is on the way”. Good morning. To you, brother and sister. To those who are home-bound and bed-bound. Today is the…
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Saigon during my time was divvied up into a dozen districts joined by multiple roundabouts. Growing up during the height of the Vietnam War, I came-of-age not without incidents. Those news events got out via News Bureau pouches and diplomatic pouches, but the personal stuff stayed in the vault of my memory. Sometimes, our alley…
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It used to be someone else’s domain and responsibilities e.g. large-scale WW’s, large-scale energy outfits, large-scale media outlets, large-scale public health care…. Now, everything seems to splinter off, scattered around – distributed. What is newsworthy? what is real? (how many data points to make a proposition proof-positive?) Where to stop playing God with virus and…
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The A isn’t in CAPS for a reason. It’s just my own, small “a” America which I know, being late in the game while still “Hail Mary” to get a decent final scores. I have no idea how it changes so quickly, right before my eyes (or in between my trips overseas). I first met…
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Gretchen Rubin of Yale Law took a year off for her project. Turns out, she named her book, a bestseller, ” The Happiness Project”. Habit of Happiness seems untimely, given what we have put up with so far this year (10 straight months). According to some studies, a new habit can be acquired in 66…
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You might have guessed, “Software will eat your lunch”. The unseen are important. Since before time. When I saw Poinsettia (seen), I miss my Mom (unseen). We have counted the votes, some places twice or thrice, looking for the Unseen while the Seen is staring at our faces. Decency and honor are important – Seen…
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