“Oi, no more talking about Vietnamese students abroad and their decisions to return or not,” you may be saying. It is already as old as the hills, and still recently found its way to go viral all over the social media among us Vietnamese people who used to be, have been, or simply care enough…
Category: Everyday Musings
The Telegraph: A Visit to Remember
“If someone is seen carrying a copy of The Daily Telegraph, three things could be told about him or her. That he or she is educated, articulate, and opinionated,” said the man who guided us through the visit to a highly successful newspaper business in the UK. And it pretty much summed up a better…
#SyriaVote, Social Media, and My Friend
Last night the House finally passed the Syria airstrike proposal by Prime Minister David Cameron and the Tory after a lengthy debate against the opposite side represented by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. On Facebook hashtags #SyriaVote or #DontBombSyria have become the most viral. Many of my friends have joined the protest against bombing Syria along with numerous people either…
When Did You Stop Drawing?
It’s the question that some of my friends are asking one another, and it makes me think of myself. When did I stop drawing? I used to draw a lot when I was a kid. I believe everyone did too, especially before people could read and write. Drawing was one of the easiest and earliest…
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
I just read another book last night and a couple of hours today. It’s probably the best novel I have read for a while. To be honest I’m not so sure I really enjoyed it, but it possesses some kind of power that I would rank higher than an obsession. It was ‘The Solitude of…
Death
She wakes up to someone calling her name. Except that it is in the short, cherishing form, which she hasn’t got called by since Pouce was gone. Seventeen years ago. Who could that be? Here, in the middle of this snowy place in an alien country, no less? She shudders, surprisingly not out of the…
Unlincolntitled
Little boy, hope you’ll get well soon And can just stop looking back, Cuz life is destined to be doomed And leave people some heartache. Little boy, we know that it’s not cool To pull a face like how you’d react. When a day is made of gloom, It’s just not meant to be packed….
For the Undone
So I see All the love out there that is not for me. The squabbles, the needs, the bitter and sweet, Which all I taste is out of duty. I hear All the hatred and cruelty that bring tears. Practiced flattery, seasoned fakery behind false happiness, Which I’ve been through enough to fear. And I…
For My Closest Stranger
Back then we had all the time in the world Staying up whole day and night for the boy and the girl Whom we lived behind underneath our masks Laughing and crying for moments that did last All the jokes, the swings, the scorpion, the capricorn And the quotes, the twinges, the lumps, the eyes…
Kaleidoscope Eyed 