Vietnamese Students: Going Abroad to a Comfort Zone?

“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…

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…