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.

Tag: Wonderful Tonight

  • Joy of randomness

    We move between chaos and control. For those who experience Saigon traffic, the dance takes it to another level: randomness. A tour bus made its final stop in front of a hotel. Tourists stepped down, immediately, with cameras (little did they know, traffic like this is all too common). Rain and randomness. Control and chaos, coexist. That’s just one aspect…

  • Stress and songs

    The audience sang along, occasionally to the shared mike. We will we will rock you. Tonight gonna be a good good night. Even Top of the World which was a relic from the 70’s. A night at Acoustic, Saigon. A night to release the stress. A night to see Rock rules in a whole new generation. The…

  • Happy Monday

    Yes, one might feel Wonderful Tonight, but not the next morning, Monday that is. Unless, it’s a keeper. Passion doesn’t push it way in, since it’s intrinsic in nature. Yes, we are alloted only 24 hours a day. But some of us can connect the dots faster than others. Then there are those who can…

  • Still the one (who sings)

    Bob Seger‘s still the same. Shania Twain‘s still the one. And at C’est Moi tonight, the owner/singer (Vietnamese back from France) still carried the show with her energy and charisma, as if she owned the place. When you sing, you have to lift the audience out of the here and now. If they are on…