On March 8th 2011, at approximately 8:30pm, Japan time, my flight landed in Osaka. I was so excited! It was my first time there and I had plans to see as much of it as I could in the two weeks that I was there. You know, we all hear about disasters happening everyday, all [...]
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111th Column- Japan 2011
Posted in Past columns on April 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
105th Column- Year of The Rabbit
Posted in Past columns on February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve always said that we’re so lucky to be able to grow up and celebrate not just holidays relevant to our nation but also our culture. We get the best of both worlds. On top of celebrating Australian holidays, we get to celebrate Vietnamese ones too. The Vietnamese/ Chinese New Year is probably our biggest [...]
100th Column- Opportunity
Posted in Past columns on December 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, I’ve said it a thousand times already but I can’t believe how fast this year has gone by. Of course technically, this year has gone by just as fast as any other year but I can’t help but feel like I just blinked at the beginning off 2010 and here we are right at [...]
85th Column- Youth Suicide
Posted in Past columns on July 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.” ~Phil Donahue I’ve been feeling a little bit down lately and then I remembered that there was something I liked to look at when I was down, this was Post Secrets. For those of you who have never heard of Post Secrets before, it’s a [...]
75th Column- Happy Mother’s Day
Posted in Past columns on May 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Con dù lớn vẫn là con của mẹ. Ɖi suồt cuộc đời mẹ vẫn theo con.” Translation: “No matter how old you get, you are still your mother’s child. Throughout your entire life, I will always follow you. ~Vietnamese Saying I’ve used this quote in a previous column before but it’s created a real [...]
70th Column- The Spoilt Generation- Generation Me
Posted in Past columns on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt Two weeks ago, my column titled ‘Leaving the Bird’s Nest’, depicted my view that Vietnamese youths are particularly lucky that their parents care for them so much so that they did not want [...]
62nd Column- Christmas Giving
Posted in Past columns on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.” ~Robert A Heinlein During this time of the year, it’s easy to get carried away with all of the Christmas dinners, Christmas shopping, Christmas parties and Christmas presents. With it being such a busy [...]
60th Column- Goodbye 2009, Hello 2010
Posted in Past columns on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instil in us.” ~Hal Borland So here we are, at the end of yet another year. Things come and go, seasons change, people grow, the world turns and we can only hope that those [...]
55th Column- Internet Slang
Posted in Past columns on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse.” ~ Unknown Author We all know that when the internet entered our lives, it changed many things for us. From the way we send and receive information such as reading the news, from the way we communicate such as sending emails, online [...]
50th Column- Child Sex Abuse Part II
Posted in Past columns on September 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Child abuse does not go away, but 90 percent of child abuse is preventable” ~Karen Adams Perhaps it is now simply an issue I am more aware of but it seems as though everywhere I turn now, I’m constantly hearing about child sexual abuse cases. Just today, opening up my main homepage on my [...]
