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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: A Canadian lady, back from visiting her family in India, was aboard the flight to Detroit on Christmas day.http://www.thecanadianpress.com/english/online/OnlineFullStory.aspx?filename=p122649A&newsitemid=27268234&languageid=1 She recalled vivid details of near-miss explosion, the terror and the bravery of passengers and crews. We cannot control some events, but we can control our reaction (10/90 rule). As…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Mind you, this is not a new Panda Express dish. Just China exercises its soft power, by sending S&R responders to Haiti (Western Hemisphere, many time zones away from the Great Kingdom). Why China? China has explored Space, Chips, and automobiles (not to mention its recent Bullet train, which…
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If it weren’t for the rain, I wouldn’t have remembered the incident. Being just a kid, I was home-bound by torrential rain. No matter how hard I tried, the adults in the house would not let me go out and play. My tantrum perhaps lasted for hours with ending compromise: I got taken to see…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Neil Postman didn’t see the rise of game online when he penned “Amuse ourselves to death”. But he was on to something worth discussing: we are heading toward becoming a couch-potato nation or in China, Internet-addict camp. When Chinese kids get sent to these internet addict camps, we witness…
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Same set of situation, variety of readings. Rashomon effect. In Vietnam, if you ran into a funeral, it’s luck. Wow! Positively positive. The deaths live on in the family, albeit high up on the altar. Part of one another forever. Unlike in the US, health care for all is health care for none (shut down). Negatively…
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I am sure Mr Clancy who has just died at 66 had many late nights facing the blinking cursor, unsure of where his thoughts and imagination might have taken him. The hunt for the next national-security threat. Cold-war genre morphs into regional terrorism tale. An epitome of story telling. I am a fan. It got…
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A while ago, 14 Vietnamese women were found and freed from Baby101, a Taiwanese outfit operated outside of the law in Thailand. They were paid to be surrogate mothers (artificial insemination or otherwise), whose future babies would be put up for adoption. Baby, never let me go. Newsweek has a piece about anonymousUS.org, an organization which seeks to organize “kids…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: If you need to be motivated as I do, watch the Winter Olympics. You will share peak emotions, peak performance and peak mountain spots of Vancouver. Everybody loves a winner, and the winner loves to savor and share that moment . We empathize with their struggle, their trial and…
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Limits to power. Limits to growth. Speed limits. We finally see ourselves in the mirror. Dying, decaying, decomposing. Long live Blue Jeans, T-shirt and Rock “n” Roll. 60 Minutes capitalized on their archive footage to show us the evolution of John Kerry. Our evolution, from idealism to realism. The aging process that takes a toll…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: It’s a grand title. But the intention is put up some guide posts to mark the new (Lonely) American trail Or else, new comers to America, reading Orientation web sites only, would end up like the Oregon couple who trusted solely on GPS readout, without consulting paper maps. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100102/ap_on_hi_te/us_stranded_motorists…
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