The truth is, no one wakes up at 9a.m. on a Saturday morning. But when you are woke up by dazzling morning sun (that can burn your naked eyes) on a chilly, 1-degree Celsius day; you know that you need to get yourself off bed, and go out. Or at least that’s what I decided […]
July 27, 2010
“Hai bảy tháng bảy thương binh Hai tám tháng bảy bé Linh ra đời” – ông nội – Today marks the 20th summer of my life. I never really liked summer as much as I love winter, despite being born in summertime. I hate not being able to celebrate birthday in class, or get a […]
May 8, 2010
But there's something more about the stars, the universe and the simple beauty of physics that brought me this mixed feeling of wonder and doubt; curiosity and frustration, excitement and helplessness. For example, the stars are actually the most ancient storytellers in the world: As some stars are thousand or even million of lightyears away from us, what we see now of the sky is actually what it looked like long long time ago, perhaps before the existence of human-beings, or even long before the creation of our very own Earth. Some stars that we still can see now in the present, might have died long time ago in the past. In a way, the stars we look at now tell us the stories of the past that we would never otherwise know.
March 8, 2010
I don’t know if Providence weather amazes or annoys me more with its unpredictability. For the past days and weeks, a randomly periodic series of rain, snow, haze, wind, sprinkle, storm has occupied and reoccupied the city, lingering in the sky and in the air, in every street-corner and every building, on every branch of […]
December 4, 2010
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