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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: I am referring to Dr Rustum Roy of Penn State whom I met almost 4 decades ago. I knew then just as I know now that he was ahead of his time. He pushed for integrated studies in Science, Technology and Society. He showed up at a demo of …
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Vietnamese has a saying “Tha Phuong Cau Thuc” which means, go any distance for a job. I did that a few years back, with English Teaching certification in Hanoi, and real classroom hours in the South. On the way back to the US, I ran into some young Vietnamese in transit…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: We just saw an aftershock in Japan at magnitude 7.0. In and of itself, it’s a major earthquake. But, since it had been preceded by the big one (9.0), it is pale in comparison. As to culture shock, a man from the Amazon who got transported to Seattle, WA will only…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: We are all into wealth creation. Until the voice of reason calls for cuts. What happened to “you have to spend money to make money?” or mental (muscle) memory (once you reached a certain peak, you tend to recreate the experience to get the same “rush” e.g. venture capitalists in search of…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: In a fictional tale of modern madness, the author of “the Remains of the Day” brought to us “Never let Me Go”. A famous quote from the school principal (where students were raised and taught to become “donors” since they were genetic copies made from real people to someday called…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Ishiguro, Fukuyama, Kawasaki and Murakami. I read Ishiguro in bed, watched Fukuyama on Charlie Rose, watch Kawasaki interview on his latest book Enchantment and dream on with characters in Murukami’s novels. Multi-media tutors. They might look Asian, but speak and write perfect English. Best of both worlds. Like Singapore or Hongkong. Ishiguro…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: If you look hard enough, you will find them: a Queen wearing Green, a show host wearing “color purple”, bidding farewell to a dream career a black, single mom couldn’t have imagined 50 years ago, or a fairy tale went awry with California Dreamer, bodybuilder that pumped more tragedy to the…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: A few days ago, we were entertained with a lavish meal, of all things, in a wedding banquet hall. Being the first customers that evening, we ate in this huge wide open space. One by one, the dishes arrived. To me, that’s a lot of cholesterol in one shot.…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Your corporate planners booked an award trip at a remote location, complete with mixer party and Gala. Except for the entertainment part. How would you feel? Just pop in a DVD, have a few drinks? or resort to karaoke to save a few bucks? We need artists, musicians and…
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Some make a career out of an event (memorial etc…). Others completely blocke it out to cope with new realities. I am in between. I know the elephant is in the room. I can use it as backdrop for my Facebook photo. Or I can go on pretending it isn’t there. Like tomorrow, here in…
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