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Journey Letter #2 – From Studying Abroad to Living Abroad
Studying abroad is not just about going to a different academic environment; it is also about being exposed to different cultures and gaining life experiences that will, most likely, shape us into newer versions of ourselves. When I was considering taking the opportunity to pursue my master’s degree in the US, I had many concerns and doubts. The overthinking-me imagined…
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Nhật ký hành trình #1 - Từ Kiến Trúc Cảnh Quan Đến Bảo Tồn
Dear beloved friends and supporters, as we have followed each other over the past few years, you may have noticed a change in my career focus. You no longer see me on the construction sites checking the thickness of concrete walls; our talks about design details, materials, or architectural standards have been reduced significantly. Instead, your feeds have been flooded…
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“Không ai tắm hai lần trên một dòng sông”
Heraclitus (Greek: Ἡράκλειτος), a philosopher of ancient Greece, once said: "No one ever steps in the same river twice". The first person who translated it into Vietnamese rendered it as "No one bathes twice in the same river," and the phrase remains unchanged in my language. The first time I heard this quote, I was fifteen or sixteen. My youthful…
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All over the place
A rainy evening of April; I have to admit that I am in a difficult situation with my writings. I have plenty of ideas to talk about and a ton of work to work through, but, I am doing nothing. Some days it just feels like dragging a block of granite up a hill, slowly, heavily. I started my website…
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Sự chuyển mình của mùa Thu
Hôm nay ngoài trời mưa rả rích, tiết trời cũng đã lạnh hơn rất nhiều. Tôi vừa chợp mắt được một lúc thì bị tiếng mưa và sấm chớp kéo dậy khỏi cơn mê man. Tôi đã mơ về những ngày đầy nắng ở làng đại học, và những ngày mưa lạnh buốt ở Bảo Lộc, hai cảnh ấy cứ đan xen nhau...
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Sắc màu mùa Hè của Wisconsin
Today when I was sitting by the window, doing journalling, the sunlight caught my attention to its different brightness. “It is changing!”, I screamed in my mind. I rushed out of the house with my camera in hand like I feared losing the moment. I went for a walk and randomly stopped by tiny spots on the way to capture…
