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At Van’s Cafe Ho Chi Minh City, if you stayed til the end of their second set of music, you would no longer hear Truc Vy doing her closing songs. She performed her set last week for the last time. Despite her late-stage throat cancer, she gave her best with composure and courage. I did…
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With the passing of Mandela, the world raises a legit question: will there be another one in the horizon of equal moral stature! Yes and No. This is why. Gen Next grows up digitally. Search at their fingertips. Conversation has long tail. Everyone is well-informed by those tweets (Welcome Pres George H.W. Bush to Twitter).…
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The world mourns for a beacon that was Mendela. It rains in the stadium and inside the heart. Racism was an ingrained system up to the Civil War, fought in World War, struggled in the 60’s and onto the 90’s in Apartheid. We simply don’t like color folks, first in speech, than in hush-hush, now only…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: It’s Sunday. Jamming Sunday. Singer-musician-owner of Van’s Unforgettable was kidding, after a round of live and unrehearsed performances that we should just play a commercially released CD since we at times failed at recalling certain lyrics. He had a point. The age of automation and atomization is here. Each of…
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It’s Sunday. Jamming Sunday. Singer-musician-owner of Van’s Unforgettable was kidding, after a round of live and unrehearsed performances that we should just play a commercially released CD since we at times failed at recalling certain lyrics. He had a point. The age of automation and atomization is here. Each of us, with headset and in private…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: God, guns and country. Then, a monk, not outside of Wal-Mart soliciting for donation, but inside, at the cashier line, waiting to pay. It’s a common sight today. But by turning the clock back a few decades, you wouldn’t expect both (Monk and Wal-Mart) to coexist. At least, it’s…
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Elton John had a song out a while ago. Your Song. Newsweek, when it was still in print, had a page called My Turn (that had been before the Internet with immediate comments and re-tweet). Now, the Art of the Start‘s author, Guy Kawasaki, asked readers what they want included in his next revision of…
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You can take a boy out of Texas, but you can’t take Texas out of the boy. This happens to me, not once, but twice. Culture shock upon culture shock! until I feel numbed. I jog on the street full of motorbikes (nice people would say “Co len”, bad people would try to run me…
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Last Sunday morning was my first time at the jam session here. Today, my second. It is getting better, sweeter and with more substance. Thanksgiving weekend with friends and music lovers. It’s game weekend in the US. Or shop til you drop. Here jazz music permeates the air we breathe. Unrehearsed of course. But it…
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Latest study pointed to Vietnam workforce skill deficiencies, particularly in critical and behavioral skills (numerical skill was a given). This study came not as a surprise. For years, kids have adopted a rote learning, picked up from peers and adults, who in turn, had picked up from earlier generations. We are heading toward an era…
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