Tag: take action
-
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Yesterday, I rediscovered one of my favorite hobbies as a child – #origami. There’s something magical and meditative about folding paper. This boat also goes well with my favorite quote from #marktwain about life. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do, than by the ones you […]
-
If you don’t like where you are, move. You are not a tree. 🌲
For me, this quote is deep-rooted (no pun intended) in my life motto. At 15, I wasn’t performing well academically and didn’t like the school where I was at, so I asked my parents to move me to another school – in Australia. That shook things up and I had no choice but trying my […]
-
10% vs 90%
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R Swindoll This is true! Ten years ago, I graduated from uni. Five years of hard work, where would my Master of Speech Pathology take me? It’s a scary wide world out there! Unlike some classmates, there was no job […]
-
Come out, Come out, Whoever you are
I’m gay, and proud of it! I was born in Saigon, Vietnam in the 80’s. Back then, homosexuality was not common. If a guy acted in a feminine way, he would be laughed at and/or given a well-known label, “be de” (a Vietnamese word that has its French origin meaning: fag). The term was commonly used. […]