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I finally picked up the Happiness Project to see what’s all the fuss about. Was it a clever way for the author to make some money while going through her mid-life crisis? Or every so often, someone somewhere is bound to ask those loaded epistemological questions: where I am going? Is happiness awaiting for me…
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HP is about to be split into enterprise and mass market. Reminds me of the old Ma Bell break-up ( which took down Bell Labs with it). Long ago, we bought into the economy of scale, to vertical integration (ITT). Now, the pendulum swings in the opposite e.g. IBM spinning off its hardware computer to…
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Between Last Days of Vietnam and Too Big To Fail, documentary films all of a sudden get serious attention. I was reading up on the latter story, while being a part of the former. In fact, a few days that led up to “the last days” of the US Embassy, I had invited a friend…
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In The Idea Factory, we find a chronicle of great men, among them Claude Shannon, who dedicated themselves to solving big problems. The transistors, capacitors, semi-conductors and the silicon chip (later became the magical wafer of Intel and the Valley industry). Even an unheard-of technology of the time – cellular transmission – was shelved, since it…
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For my Aimy, who is a recent college grad, September won’t ever be the same: she is not back to school as in years previous. She is entering the world of work. That world is very different from the time I entered it. She is expected to try her hands at multiple jobs, by sheer…
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Eyes glued to the set. All eyes! How can this be! Smoke gets in your eyes. Falling men. Rushing in and about. End of the world (why does the sun go on shinning…..amidst all the smoke). Did we bring it on ourselves? Why was there so much hatred? What were the causes? US “occupation” as…
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I have always known about the book, but I dared not opening it for fear that it would change me. Today, my fear has just caught up with me: I could not finish my bread without thinking, what if I had been in that concentration camp, with other prisoners around me. Would they let me…
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Watching the Dragon dancers go about their Moon Festival celebration, I can’t help remember my Moon Festival with lantern and moon cakes. You just put a candle in the middle of that lantern, and the heat would turn those cardboard merry-go-round to your amusement. My Moon Festival pre-dated television and internet. In fact, all…
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When I first heard that Vietnamese touring Thailand and Singapore had come across signs like “Beware of Vietnamese pickpockets!”, my initial reaction was that of denial “you must be kidding me!”. Then it dawns on me: we must have done it to ourselves,somehow. There have been a steady few (among the 200,000 who arrived as…
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I grew up, unfortunately, not seeing a lot of love, in any language. Instead, a lot of fighting: in-fighting within my family, (whose consequences are still working themselves out) and in-fighting within my country. With one exception. My sister, strong in personality, has pursued the love of her life all the way til the end.…
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