— Huy Nguyen

I'm young and still trying

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ÄÆ°á»ng còn dài mà Huy
Bước tiếp đi Huy

Ngẩng đầu lên mà bước.

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can speak 5 languages: English, Malay, Tamil, Mandarin, Hokkien. She used to serve in the army. She’s Indian Singaporean.

She has a grandson who’s principal of a secondary school nearby. I’m sure he’s well-off enough to support her.

She said she does this job to make sure her muscles being exercised everyday, and will be doing this until she can’t.

Who knows what life brings when you give a smiley ‘good morning auntie’ everyday?

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I used to think I suck at designing. But not anymore.

The logo I’ve been doing for a conference I’m organizing. Ysummit.

Thanks Toan, Kim and Kelsie along the way.

Btw, happy birthday to An.

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It’s interesting how RomCom movies can inspire you sometime.

I re-watched the movie “17 again” with a couple of friends. There is this part in the movie where the main character came back to visit his old highschool (where he was the basketball star). The conversation started between him and a janitor. Somewhere in the middle the old janitor told him: “We all wanted to live in the past”.

I shrugged and imagined how would I ever think of my university life 5 (or even 1) years from graduation.
I regretted not to do something in middleschool when I got into high school.
I regretted not to live certain lifestyles in high school when I got into college.

It’s still my choice now to make the rest of my college life something unforgettable and unregrettable! (though I never regretted the best 1 year of my life spending in Sweden!)

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I’ll leave Stockholm tomorrow.
This is it. One year passed in a blink.

You changed my life, NCST. You really did.

They say leave the best for last. I say live the best for every moment. I think I did.

So that’s it. Endless dinners, endless movie nights, endless parties, endless drunk moments, endless swears. It ends here. Jasvind walking skeleton, Amelia Liaoooooo, huiqiii, andrew ching ga ling ga ling, sankar the indian and the rest of batch 10. I’ll wait for you in Singapore in 5 months with a bottle of Vodka ok? Remember to SAY MY NAMEEEEEE

Had a wonderful dinner and bonfire with the rest of the team. That lasted and marked my last dinner in Lappis. My last moment to see Gamla, walking around Stockholm. OMG I love this place so much.

And I’ll take every moment and live it out loud. I know this is the time. This is the time more than a name or faces in the crowd i know this is the time this is the time of my life.

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A reminder

Source: bitsofwisdom

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So it’s over. We made it. TEDxMalaren has really been a success, a success that I wouldn’t have imagined.

  • 60 audience.
  • 75 received applications (we even received 1 after the event ended)
  • 480 live streaming audience.
  • 400 gmail threads. 4000 emails sent among team members.
  • Countless emails sent to sponsors, speakers, partners, publicity emails. Countless hours spent to correct every single details of the program, the template, the pdfs file, the sponsor kit, the speaker kit, etc.

I enjoyed every single second of it. Of course there were times I felt extremely low, stressed and busy.

Of course there are problems along the way. Lots of them. But I enjoyed facing these problems. It’s boring without problems, isn’t it?

For the first time in my life I become an MC of such a big program. I spent 2 days to prepare the MC script to end up not using most of them and speak from my own thoughts. That leads to a lot of “erm” “uhm”. I felt like I didn’t do that good as I thought I would. But I know that everyone enjoyed the commentary and the jokes I tried to come up with.

Some of the quotes that I could remember during the events:

If you are looking for sympathy, it’s in the dictionary – Bhavik Gandhi

We are all given a gold coin everyday. You are free to do whatever you want but it’s non-refundable. How would you want to spend your gold coin today? – Chrissy Phoong

This one is a complement by one of our BoA members:
I’ve never met so professional students in my life and I’ve been in the marketing profession for 10 years. You guys are amazing. Wow! – Richard Gatarski

I have only 1 little hope: our speakers would be invited to speak at TED.

And the thought has been bothering me throughout the last 4 months: how to bring TEDx to Vietnam?

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I am done with my business case presentation. Now moving on to work the more important stuff: TEDxMälaren.

It’s a TEDx conference that me and 8 other friends have been working really hard for the last 4 months. And next Tuesday will say it all. All our efforts spent in 4 months will be presented in 1 day, no, 1 afternoon…

For the first time in my life I’ll be the MC for such program… gosh I don’t have a very good suit…

Anyway, we have livestreaming for the event. So if you are not in Stockholm but want to listen to the talks (and you should!), catch the livestream next next Tuesday 15/06/2010, 6PM Vietnam time or 7PM Singapore time.

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Hôm nay ngồi lục lại forum của lớp năm cấp 3, lòi ra đống này.

@JKnight, 05/10/2006
Sau đây là 1 tin tức động trá»i cá»§a ngày 5/10, vào tiết Hình ngày hôm nay, Mai xuống ngồi gần chá»— Äức và QVÅ© lên ngồi cạnh Nhung, vâng và sẽ chẳng có chuyện gì xảy ra nếu khá»ang 30phút sau:
MrBean: Ê ê, báo cho thằng Äức ngay, tao phát hiện thằng QVÅ© sỠđùi Nhung. 4.gif
(phen này là chết thằng Qvũ roài).
JKnight tui lập tức way xuống định thông báo cho Äức tin sốt dẻo này thì thấy Äức Ä‘ang sỠđùi Mai blink.gif
thôi nói làm gì phí công. lol.gif

@MrBean 12/10/2006
hom nay Äào sỠđùi Nhung, haha

@JKnight 20/10/2006
35.gif Những câu nói hay trong tuần:
Có vẻ như JK ko thành công lắm trong lĩnh vực post truyện tranh, đành way lại nghỠcũ vậy.
Sự kiện ngày 18/10:
Cô Sử: Em hãy cho cô biết tại sao đồng đôla là 1 ngoại tệ mạnh?
M.Tâm: Thưa cô…
(Nơi cuối lớp, chỗ nhóm G5 và JK)
JK: Äồng đôla mạnh bởi vì…
T.Nghĩa: Who uses dollar ?
Money is not necessarily the private property of those who use it, just as pound is not the private property of English people, nor dollar of US people…
JK: Nhưng ko thể nói rằng tiá»n đô được sá»­ dụng bởi nhiá»u ngưá»i nhất, vì vá» Ä‘iểm này nó dá»… dàng bị đồng Nhân dân tệ wa mặt. Nhưng đây là loại tiá»n tệ mang tính quốc tế nhất. 1 ngưá»i Äan Mạch và 1 ngưá»i Hà Lan gặp nhau ở Rome… sẽ tá»± biết móc đôla ra để cho thằng kia thấy: tao xài tiá»n đô nè.

Sự kiện ngày 20/10:
Nguyên Hồng sau khi Ä‘á»c xong bài thÆ¡ “Bên kia sông Äuống”, ông đã bật khóc, vì sao vậy? Ông đã khóc ko phải vì nó khiến ông nhá»› nhà mà là vì nó được gá»i là bài thÆ¡.

@huy, 23/11/06, Tiết Kĩ Thuật
Nhung: mốt tui lấy chồng tui bắt chồng tui làm việc nhà.
Huy khá»u Äào: eh Äào, mốt mày đừng lấy Nhung nha, làm việc nhà chết luôn.
Äào: Ừ, tao cho mày lấy.
Huy: xấu như Nhung tao thèm lấy làm gì.
Nhung: tui mà xấu, tại ông đeo kiếng mới thấy tui xấu thôi, cởi kiếng ra thử xem
Huy + Äào: ?

@hai, 26/11/2006
Tao xin trích dẫn Ä‘á»an đối thoại giữa tao và Äức tối qua:
- Ê mày, tí nữa tặng hoa thì làm gì nữa ?
- Làm sao tao biết được, tao có bao giá» tặng hoa cho ngưá»i ta đâu!!! (kém cá»i quá)
- Chà!
- Lúc đó thì tự nhiên mày sẽ biết mày phải làm gì thôi 39.gif
- Thế tặng hoa xong mình ÔM có được không ? pro.gif
- Cái này thì tùy mày. 42.gif
- Ở bên Tây, ngưá»i ta vẫn làm thế.
- Ừ ừ

Hồi xưa vui thật.

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It’s dangerous, human self-esteem, especially male-ego. I, for long, used to be the victim of self-esteem, be it me who makes people pissed, or be it me who feels pissed about someone else’s self-esteem.

Over the years i tried to control myself once I realize its danger. I learnt to accept mistake, advice, suggestions merely based on logic. As long as I realize I’m wrong, I admit. I learnt to say ‘apology’ when needed. At the end of the day, I learnt something new. I made no conflict.

But people keep making me pissed when they put their self-esteem on top of rational and logical. And I get sick of it. Fine, people are insecure.

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