Saigon’s 1990s Mini School at Home, but Not Homeschooling
Um-hum. So, I’ve told you about the little neighborhood and its struggles. Now, a different glimpse of Saigon in the 1990s. Parents clearly weren’t afraid to invest in their children’s education. But let’s look at the weekly schedule of one middle-class kid, not from some super-rich family. Three times a week, there was a 1.5-hour…
kindness … really?
I spent the entire day writing a long paper, at considerable length, to defend my risk analysis and risk management argument while continuously following the recent gender debate across social media. Then I looked back at real life, and I no longer wanted to post that long paper anymore. I just kept thinking about two…
Roads or lives
I often ask myself why driving seems to be something that everyone can do, yet I cannot seem to do it. When I was a child in Vietnam, my mother drove me to school until I finished high school and went to university. By then, the traffic in Saigon was already extremely crowded, and I…
