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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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Emperors of the past wouldn’t secure their title and the land without being ruthless. Luckily we have since evolved i.e. less poverty and scarcity, more computing power. Yet, despite all those extra accessories from FWD to AWD, Skype to Zoom, we still have the same O/S: win-lose, 1% vs the 99%, US vs ROW. Why…
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If there were another me, my lost twin, living in the US in parallel to the time I was growing up in Vietnam; wouldn’t it be interesting? (to show I was growing up quiet a lonely boy!?!) Like a childhood fantasy, perhaps I was adopted (hence all the mistreatment)? Every kid at one time thought…
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Long time ago, but it seems like yesterday. I landed at Fort Indiantown Gap, PA with two sets of clothes, and an uncertain future. I saw an ad looking for a bi-lingual interpreter, only that it was a volunteer position. Oh well, those unaccompanied refugee children needed help. So I signed up and signed on…
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You can’t do that! Yes, I can. How many times have we heard that over the past four years? America is an ensemble of people from all walks of life. Because of its heterogeneous make-up, the US of A doesn’t and couldn’t see itself under monarchy or tyranny without checks and balance. It allows for…
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First, Harrisburg Airport. Then Indian Town Gap. Then State College. Then Mt Poconos. Then Scranton. Finally Philadelphia. My PA. Still on my mind and in my heart. Pennsylvania was my second home. My incubator. It carried me forward, one yard at a time (Push them back, push them back, way..back ) through those hills and…
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My name is Boat People, actually the other half. The no-shows who didn’t make it. Hence, I am not here, to witness my dream flushed down the toilet. I am not here to thrive, to contribute, to compete and to make a life for myself and my children. I am not here to witness the…
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Scarlett Johansson gets married…again. Why not. Love in the times of covid. It should be encouraged, urged and nudged. How many chances do we get in life…before they get taken away… by tiny rebellious pathogens and virus. Let love go viral, not the virus. By now, we have learned to live with it: neither at…
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Amber Alert is one thing. Abandoned in immigration/concentration camp is another. It’s hard to imagine it is happening here in the US: kids lost in the shuffle. I thought it only happens somewhere far far away, where the “thin red line” is (and even then, the whole village would chip in, help out and raise…
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