Sheryl Crow – Thang Nguyen 555

01/23/2013

Fun as motivator

Cyndi Lauper and Sheryl Crow both touched on “wanna-have-fun” theme. (Girls just want to have fun, All I wanna do). The upcoming Olympic in Brazil should be a fun place (certainly more than polluted Beijing). Fun ranks up there as one of the highest motivators. It’s wired in our fabrics. Pure fun. Wholesome fun. Grand…

Becoming yourself

Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize Winner, told a story (in the Black Book) about a writer whose wife left him for no reason at all. Restless and sleepless (and perhaps facing writer’s block) he imagined living out his former single self ( the status he now found himself in ). After a while, the mind played trick…

Third place, third screen, third world

Known as the third place (away from home and work), Starbucks did not stop after opening up in Forbidden City, China. It has just opened for business in Vietnam (where the I-phone, our third screen – after TV and desktop – recently made a stirring appearance). Vietnam young consumer segment and older generations with French-cafe…