Thang Nguyen 555

Cultures on Collision Course

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With some short-term relief work in Asia/Africa and long stint in Telecom, Thang also earned a B.A. at Pennsylvania State University. M.A. in Communication at Wheaton Graduate School, M.A. in Cross-Cultural Communication at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, Boston. In addition, he earned a CELTA – classes taken in Hanoi for cultural re-immersion.

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  • Forwarding

    Tonight we turn the clock forward. Day light saving time. At least, for once, we can advance time, unlike other occasions when waiting for a test result might seem like an eternity. From Ulysses we found this timeless advice: “Hold on to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past”. It matters that we exist and…

  • To Die Another Day

    Those gene combination keeps going, mutating and evolving. Buddistically or biologically, we aren’t going to die today. Maybe another day. But not today (I am obviously blogging still, 957 and counting). Unlike a line in American Pie “too much whiskey and wine…this will be the day that I die”. Meanwhile, in the land of the…

  • Automation and creativity

    What if you had a third eye in the back of your head? (one of the Creativity Test questions). Or how would it turn out if Earth goes without 0xygen for 5 seconds? If you were a car, what would that be? Gone are the days of “you can have the model T’s in any color…

  • The Vietnamese pleasantry

    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. But I couldn’t get enough of hospitality…

  • Sean and investigative genre

    Last Sunday, if you watched 60 minutes, you would have learned about “Three Cups of Teas”. I am sure the network legal council department did its due diligence before allowing the segment to air. The reluctance to go after these stories struck a familiar chord: nobody would be interested, we don’t want to shake the…

  • Nano in the wind

    Kansas didn’t expect its slow number to be a hit, but there it was: Dust in the Wind. I am privy to have met three gentlemen, all Vietnamese nano technology scientists. Through them, I learn about our next frontier, not out there, but right here e.g. coconut shells from which carbon nano tubes can be…