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Troubles are everywhere these days:from Ferguson to the Far East, from Western Africa to Western of the US ( from Ebola to earthquake). So are ideas, actionable or academic. What we need is a good problem, one that is challenging, and must be solved together. The kind of problem that defines our purpose in life.…
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For what’s it worth, at least you can make use of its nostalgic theme music. Boy coming of age. Coming back to his village. to find its town Cinema, now destroyed for a parking lot. Same thing is happening downtown Saigon. With the demolition of old buildings for new, memory lane for metro lane. Prominently…
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If there were a Dislike button, it would be for Ebola. Give me some Dislikes. Another Doctor Sans Frontieres has just died, setting back the fight a bit. People shun you, run away from you and “Like” you not if you got Ebola. There is no love in and around Western Africa these days, certainly…
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August is muggy. Full blast indoor A/C or a vacation near the beach. On the East coast, it’s time for snow birds to arrive back in to town (NY). For the French to bare it all on the beach. It got so hot, we even had an earthquake in China. Disasters spare no one: Haitian…
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Naively, for my high-school English-speech contest, I submitted “I want to grow up becoming a lawyer”. My residual statement at the time was “I want to give voice to those who are voiceless…”. In short, becoming an advocate. A lot of waters under the bridge since . Even when God doesn’t smile on my speech…
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Where is that song now? With 3 avionics accidents (ML17, Taiwanese and Algerian) in one week. Glad to have such thing called selective memory. We will soon forget, out of necessity and convenience. (Last week, people still rushed to the front to board my return flight, completely unaffected by those bad news). It’s been a…
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Why I stay with Facebook? (just trying to be counter-view the other opportunist who wrote “Why I leave Facebook”). It shows me so many new faces everyday. All those flashy selfies, exotic locales and landscapes which one can only dream of. And that is just from people who know the people I know (not very…
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Saw an ad the other day. Not Leaders Wanted. Just more assemblers needed, ad put out by I-phone 6 sub-contractors. A few months ago, the Australian spoke person took some leadership to coordinate the search for the missing flight. And this week, leadership is again emerged on world stage, to bring about justice and make…
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Everything looks like nails. Every jetliner looks like combat. Those satellite images similar to the ones that were supposed to locate the missing Malaysian flight a while ago, now used to shoot down a 777 of the same fleet. I am flying tonight. Not sure how safe it is going to be (a few folks,…
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We (our ancestors) created tools (spears) for hunting and (wheels) for gathering. From tools to technique, we now spend our summer entertaining dollars on Transformers, the sequel. Yes. We can cut the steps in the production process and supply chain (chop down to minuscule tasks – assembly line – then offshore them – or semi-automate…
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