Cold War
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If it weren’t for people like Shawn, I wouldn’t be where I am today. You see, Shawn was a shy Penn State student of the Horticulture department who wanted to volunteer his time. It turned out that the Foreign Student Conversant Program matched us together in our first year of college. That year as it…
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Paradox: doomsday for all is not coming, doomsday for one, anytime (especially when you are old). Dilemma: too big to fail, the book then the movie (might not make it big at the box office). Irony: got to have a job to land a job (hence, the growth of internship i.e. free labor). Underneath it…
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Google CEO blurted out what we all know (that tech moves at 3 times faster than other business sectors, who in turn, are 3X than the government). We are analog-built e.g. eating, buying and thinking habits, while techies thought processing power is on a different plane e.g. Cold-War B53 bomb in TX is finally being disassembled and junked. A…
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I like Bond, James Bond. Unlike Batman, Bond shows his face, grace under pressure and yes, his penchant for “work hard play hard”. But don’t ever doubt his loyalty and commitment to serve the Queen. The franchise still commands a huge audience with formula that works: Bond got a mission, Bond got captured, and finally…
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The foreclosure process has still been at work, churning homes back on the market in CA or FL. Behind the statistics are people bewildered and shattered. As a nation and the world, we are faced with two choices: – pretend it never happened, and rush out to shop – acknowledge that it happened, and rush…
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My father often went off to see his daughter, my half-sister. My brother tried to see his son from a previous marriage every few years or so (coast to coast). Now I found myself in the same situation: seeing my little girl whom I took back from the hospital 19 years ago. I am sure…
Thang Nguyen 555 