Thang Nguyen 555
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Platoon, Thelma and Louise, Star Wars etc.. this time, in Blu-ray. Translation: making money twice on the same repackaged product. It’s as if the banquet hall offers to cater for your wedding the second time around. Or your high school decides to hold a prom again (this time, it’s even more difficult to get a…
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We all saw Google’s numbers surge. I remember the last time I feel this way was a decade ago. Something is in the works. The market responds. New apps, new ways of accomplishing things. This might be it. Just like a line in “It Might Be You“, a theme song in Tootsie. Maybe it didn’t…
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I was crunching, when the PA system announced “free pizza at Planet Fitness, 1st Monday of the month”. Might as well. Indulge. After all, it says “No judgment zone.” Get fat, get fit. Carrot and then Stick. In a blog I recently subscribed to, I found : ” the extent that we help fulfill other…
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Yesterday, I saw Monique Truong on the Poets-and-Writers cover. The author of “the Book of Salt” was launching another title : “Bitter in the mouth”. Meanwhile, I still am awaiting the shipment of “East eats West” by Andrew Lam. What’s going on here? A Renaissance in publishing by Vietnamese-American authors? Top of my head, I…
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The Maytag man finally wakes up from a long nap! Pent-up demand pushes consumers to go out and spend on big-ticket items such as refrigerators, washers and dryers. Walmart got a law suit for paying men more than women for the same job. Our calendar is very consumer-friendly i.e. plenty of shopping events, from Mothers…
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Christopher Shaw, winner of the most recent Power Ball lottery, said he would go to the dentist and then Disney World. (this is a retweet, a year later. Not much has changed, except for Chris’ dentistry). I guess that’s how winning feels: being on top of the world, full of positive forces that lift you…
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