“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: Features
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…
Observations on A Bus
People travelling by bus share the Commuter Culture that I wrote the other day, but there are also things on a bus you can see differently from an underground journey. One explanation that could be behind all: that a bus moves way more slowly than a train, so people mostly take it to travel a…
The Commuter Culture
More than three million people travel by public transport everyday in London. Interestingly so many commuters of so many backgrounds have established quite a culture that is distinctive and imposing to a Vietnamese newcomer like me. 1. Long Strides, and No Heels Londoners walk in fast pace and long strides most of the time. No…
Muggle Quidditch in Vietnam: “We don’t fly, yet doesn’t mean we can’t.”
Unlike other sports, muggle quidditch was imported into Vietnam by a bunch of bookworms. For a year now the ‘wizarding’ sport has been striving to gain not only popularity but also seriousness in such a conservative Oriental country. “One thing more awesome than Quidditch itself is the fact that it’s real,” says Khoa Duong, one…
Kaleidoscope Eyed 