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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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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: ” I am changing everything” …Like Holden Caulfield, catcher in the Rye. “Oh I don’t want to die..”. The future that I once fret is my current present. “All my sorrows”….were for nothing. They said 90% of our worries didn’t materialize. Yet we keep worrying. Like a plague. Dec…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: The medium (social network) resembles Amazon software source code (we recommend to you these people, read their profiles). You have to open a personal account like you would at Harmony.com, and boom, you start the handshakes : “Hello, my name is…”. Personal branding 2.0. Except, when it comes to…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: In college, I could just tell when teachers got to my name: they couldn’t pronounce it. To save time, I just said “here”. This was Penn State, late 70’s, when a name like Carter from Georgia could barely register in Washington Belt Way. Now a random walk on the…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: It’s Kitchen God day in Asia. Super Bowl weekend here in Miami. And the DOW is down across the board. Oh when the Saints oh marching in…. People were guessing, just like Mr Watson, that maybe the world can make use of a few computers, or move to digitization…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: East meets West. New Year and Valentine’s. Families vs lovers. In Vietnam, with a strong Confucian foundation, filial quality stands above all else. So on that first day of this year of the Tiger, sons and daughters are expected to show up first thing at the parents’ door steps.…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: It started with Gucci and LV. More will be coming to test the warers, from McDonald to KFC , from Starbucks to Burger King. Everybody is into location, location, location. I look at the city as if it were a big fairground, where interested parties are staking out their prime…
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Long ago, at Saigon Central Market, Hynos toothpaste featured a smiling man showing white teeth. Before then Vietnam had phased out blackened-teeth, while China’s shelved away their bound-feet. Cultures in transition. The last Samurai! Kids wore BATA shoes (a popular brand in the US during WWII, when men were enlisted and women connected phone calls – switch-circuit…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Working for the man, every night and day… big wheel keeps on turnin, River boat dining provides another view of Saigon Water front. Hotel Majestic, Sheraton and Sun Wah guests look at you (dining on the river boat), while you look at them. Tourists are still coming in drove…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: By now, you can still see a few weather-beaten cyclos around albeit restricted to tourist quarters. I still remember the sound of horse carriage in the streets of old Saigon. My kid will be lucky if she knows what a cyclo is. She knows Google though. Paperless and painless…
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