Huy Nguyen

TEDxMalaren – A Success

By: Huy Nguyen

17-06-2010

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?

One thing down

By: Huy Nguyen

12-06-2010

Life

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.

McChicken or Cheeseburger?

By: Huy Nguyen

05-06-2010

Thoughts

I didn’t bring lunch to work yesterday. Since I’m running short, I decided I’ll go with McDonald, because it’s 1 of the cheap options I have (the other option is not to eat at all). I bought a McChicken and a cheeseburger. Then I started to think which one I should eat first.

It turns out that this is a very interesting problem to think about.

Assuming the McChicken is better than the cheeseburger (1.5 EUR to 1 EUR). If you’re “enjoy first, suffer later” kind, you eat the McChicken first. If you’re the “suffer then enjoy” kind, it’s the other way round. Simple.

But if we look at it in another way. We know that your appetite is dependent on your hungry level. The more hungry the more appetite you have. So if I eat the cheeseburger first, I’ll feel half-full after eating, and that makes the McChicken less delicious. But if I eat the McChicken first, the burger will taste even worse. Which one should I eat first?

Then I recalled a TED talk I watched the other day, the speaker talks about experiencing memory and remembering memory. The idea is when recalling an experience, the last event plays a very important role in your impression (ending of a movie, last performance of a show, etc).
Which mean if I eat the McChicken later, I’ll probably have a better impression on the meal since my mouth will have better aftertaste. Which one should I eat first?

When I told my friends, they just said “huy, so complicated. just eat it.”

I ate the McChicken first in the end.

Nhật kí 12 Tin – phần 1

By: Huy Nguyen

05-06-2010

Life, Vietnamese

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 trời của ngày 5/10, vào tiết Hình ngày hôm nay, Mai xuống ngồi gần chỗ Đức và QVũ lên ngồi cạnh Nhung, vâng và sẽ chẳng có chuyện gì xảy ra nếu khỏang 30phút sau:
MrBean: Ê ê, báo cho thằng Đức ngay, tao phát hiện thằng QVũ sờ đùi Nhung. 4.gif
(phen này là chết thằng Qvũ roài).
JKnight tui lập tức way xuống định thông báo cho Đức tin sốt dẻo này thì thấy Đức đang sờ đùi Mai blink.gif
thôi nói làm gì phí công. lol.gif

@MrBean 12/10/2006
hom nay Đào sờ đùi 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 nghề cũ 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: Đồng 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 tiền đô được sử dụng bởi nhiều người nhất, vì về điểm này nó dễ dàng bị đồng Nhân dân tệ wa mặt. Nhưng đây là loại tiền tệ mang tính quốc tế nhất. 1 người Đan Mạch và 1 người Hà Lan gặp nhau ở Rome… sẽ tự biết móc đôla ra để cho thằng kia thấy: tao xài tiền đô nè.

Sự kiện ngày 20/10:
Nguyên Hồng sau khi đọc xong bài thơ “Bên kia sông Đuống”, ông đã bật khóc, vì sao vậy? Ông đã khóc ko phải vì nó khiến ông nhớ nhà mà là vì nó được gọi là bài thơ.

@huy, 23/11/06, Tiết Kĩ Thuật
Nhung: mốt tui lấy chồng tui bắt chồng tui làm việc nhà.
Huy khều Đào: eh Đào, mốt mày đừng lấy Nhung nha, làm việc nhà chết luôn.
Đào: 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 + Đào: ?

@hai, 26/11/2006
Tao xin trích dẫn đọan đối thoại giữa tao và Đức tối qua:
- Ê mày, tí nữa tặng hoa thì làm gì nữa ?
- Làm sao tao biết được, tao có bao giờ tặng hoa cho người ta đâu!!! (kém cỏi 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, người ta vẫn làm thế.
- Ừ ừ

Hồi xưa vui thật.

Conversation

By: Huy Nguyen

19-05-2010

Thoughts

I had a personal conversation with a friend recently. You know, the “My life is this. For me its always….” kind of conversation. And I realize something for myself. So I think I should write down here to share, also to not forget it.

What I’ve realized don’t base on the content of the conversation, but by the nature of the conversation.

I think after all these kinds of conversation, besides the “learn more about the other person” factor, the feeling of having had a personal conversation before also helps u more confident in your friendship with the other person. Although the former involves a little bit of thinking and some people might not be able to do it, the latter comes naturally without you noticing it.

Somewhere in the conversation I started to feel lost, because there are more information being flown than that my brain can process. So how do you overcome that? When listening to others, try to formulate your own thoughts rather than following her words. Whenever you feel you need to listen to her point, do so. Whenever you feel you got her point but she moved on explaining by stating examples, dont stop her. Rather, branch off your thought and spend these little time gaps to collect all the information you’ve heard to grab the big picture of the conversation, the topic you’re talking about, as well as the other person. When she finishes her point, you are good to go, either move on by speak up your own point, or use your formulated thoughts to give comments to her point.

Also, sometime into the conversation, I feel like I am not learning anything new. Information kept being flown around but it’s just the same old tree, just different branches or in different seasons. I, well, haven’t figured out a way how to overcome this. Share with me if you know.

Companies directory in Nordic area

By: Huy Nguyen

11-05-2010

Stuffs

http://www.mynewsdesk.com

Good for scouring companies’ contacts.

Great Britains, Norway, Sweden, Denmark.

Self-esteem

By: Huy Nguyen

28-04-2010

Life

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.

Weekend

By: Huy Nguyen

19-04-2010

Life

What a eventful weekend I’ve just spent. Bake. Movie night. Badminton. BBQ. Drinking. Sunbath. Dinner.

Thank you Hari for piggybacking me back from the lake to my room. You, sir, are among the best Indian chaps I’ve known. Thanks gais and gals who tried to go down look for my specs in the cold. I really felt touched.

I’ve come to realize such good things won’t last for long. Like a saying goes “Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody”. So, be prepared to be on your own. You are always alone. Live it up. And be proud of it.

a perfect getaway

By: Huy Nguyen

29-03-2010

Life

Alcohol helps people get away from reality, and made strangers get closer to each other.

I escaped from reality for 2 nights for a cruise to Riga (Latvia), a memory that just made me unable to imagine how would it be when I’m back to Singapore in July. I am so gonna miss these times and this group of people forever.

Not that I haven’t been blogging much, but that I have not pen things down for a while. And the older you grow the worse your memory starts to get.

It’s amazing how you can find out more about yourself by just thinking about how you have reacted to certain situations.

by the way happy birthday to huiqi and khanh. The 2 of you stay young and pretty, k?

By: Huy Nguyen

08-03-2010

Life

For the first time I came to Sweden, I have something to really look (and work) forward to.

Mark that day in May.

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