Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead (Scottish proverb)
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. [...]
I’ve been thinking about death for the last 2 years. It’s not that i want to end my life. It’s just that i’ve started pondering on having a child.
It’s typical in our country that within a few months after marriage, people start asking you about kids: some things (very intrusive in Western culture but pretty [...]
On the walls of my 2 m2 cubicle, there are 3 maps.
The first one, on the back wall, is a map of my country, a land of 331,210 km2 and 3,444 km coastline. They said that if sea level rise by 5 m, most of its agriculture regions will be under the sea, affect 35% [...]
Finally, a cool and breezy morning after 2 months of terrible heat and rain
Two days from the Lunar new year eve. One tune leads to another: Fly me to the moon (Frank Sinatra) & The universe is a strange place (Frank Wilczek)
Fly me to the moon Let me play among the stars Let me see what spring is like On a-Jupiter and Mars In other words, hold my hand In other words, baby, [...]
Quoc-Anh told us about Kiva after dinner and sent me an invitation email. It’s a mistake to check it after back home, since I spent 3 more hours to read about Kiva, its process and current loan projects, etc. to register, make the first micro-finance loan of my life, and invite my friends to join [...]
I just married. I marry my first and 10-years-long love. We have spent 5 years apart, 5 years together. We have fought countless times and nearly broke up several times. In the end, we couldn’t find a better match. Rumors said that our ages are not suitable, and probably we’ll fight until the end of time. We are [...]
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M. just came back and told me that downstairs, an old skinny man is huddling himself in a corner. He, like other homeless old people these days, has been hit harder and harder.
Some weeks ago, we had a small dinner with a friend, and she told us all sort of recent crimes. Like the [...]
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