Connecticut – Thang Nguyen 555

12/16/2012

Crying girl

I walked by a shop today and I saw a girl holding a knife, crying. She was peeling onion for the restaurant. Artificially induced tears. Not triggered by sad emotion. Real, nevertheless. It made me appreciate behind-the-scene people (since I happened to have breakfast with real onion, the same kind this girl was peeling). Nickel-and-dime…

Tears for Connecticut

If this blog were written in ink, it would be blotted with tears. The photo of a school parent on cell phone crying says it all. Tears over wireless. Tears over space. Heck, I am in Vietnam, and won’t be back after Christmas. But I feel the pinch, the lump in the throat (try to…

Trust as currency

I have had great team experience. Been looking for an encore. When team works out, we can skip the prelim and go straight to solving problems. It saves a lot of time. Besides, trust binds us together. Online, it’s hard to know who is who. Hence, trust online comes at piecemeal. Tit for tat. Amazon…