Updates (July 8, 2025)

As I have socialized with Vietnamese people around my age range in Canada now (30 – 45) who are working good stable jobs, I learned the part of life where it is Vietnamese are working and thriving here in Canada.

That is very important. Probably the most important.

Before I was kind of miserable doing all these stressful pushing work in coding and development.

I learned you can run successful restaurant businesses with your own take by having an elevated menu and dining experience.

And that works. Works well in the developed world like Canada and is welcomed with open arms. Food is king in the West because of stress.

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How to maintain ‘super real’ health in 2025?

The thing with development especially passion development is the health benefits.

With normal work your goals are normal.

With normal coding work like backend banking jobs the development maybe new to adapt old to new but still linear mostly.

With web development you are trying to be a Picasso and that takes a lifetime of practice to get the visuals and code right to show off to the entire world ‘online’. But people rush it and there are deadlines and review and revisions making it stressful work.

But with passion development, you go out of your way to develop something maybe new. It is more than higher levels. It is your work, your canvas, your choice, your inner insides deep. It makes you feel good, it makes you zone out, brings you into a world where you feel elated and full and fulfilling. It is not 3-4 layers up. It is your 3-4 layers up but with your worldview and your own recipe with some homemade ingredients.

And that is health.

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My brother still works in the 2D-3D visual realm and that is not healthy.

His work is 1-2 levels maybe 3 levels deep.

He needs to learn the abstraction of math/coding to gain a foothold. Then he will get his health like me and more.

He already nailed down art his way.

But he relies on me for the technicality of his work.

I install the software, I setup the software, I do the coding.

Therefore, I should give up on him so he realizes he needs to do the coding himself. Leave him stranded so he changes??? Then he will gain his health and rise to another level and vision.

It is simple like that?

But who in 2025 really wants to spend 10-20 years learning to code?

The media says coding is not in. But they are doing a disservice to the world …

Coding was everything for health and that higher living and thinking.

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I have been complaining … Now I realize it was to vent, reflect and health.

I got upset that I had to code to make a living as it was so stressful. I got upset that coding made me feel ‘bad’.

But stopping coding for 1 month I realize I was losing my health and its benefits.

I guess I went full circle???

Basically coding for your passion projects is OK and good as it brings in health at 200%+.

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Online life …

When I was late teens, I found socializing online on tech forums was what I liked.

I visited HardwareCanucks forum the most, RedFlagDeals was second here in Canada.

Then Discord came.

I find I am in my element when I am socializing with my old pals from HardwareCanucks who moved on to the RealHardwareReviews Discord.

After socializing in the real world, then becoming accomplished, and then socializing in the real world again, I see no one likes accomplished people as people are suffering. They are suffering just to work and live and to grow if they can. They too are trying to grow and become accomplished trying to sort out life with constant anxiety and stress. Work and ‘politics’ and world geo politics is hard enough. After getting stereotyped so badly in public because I figured out life, I retreat to the Discord channel of RealHardwareReviews …

That is life I guess and it is normal. People from whatever walks of life will one day figure out life and become accomplished??? It took me 41 years.

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Because I finally got into old range group of Vietnamese workers in Canada, I am finally a real middle-aged Vietnamese adult.

That means I am officially an uncle/chú.

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In the back of my mind, running in the background was the thought of survival here in Canada.

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Because I am an uncle/chú now working with older Vietnamese working thriving people in the West, everything I connect with and promote must be positive for growth.

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Constant work makes a person, constant work makes a person see, constant work makes a person see over.

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All the good ‘extra’ things in life I had was because of the interaction mainly with Vietnamese for change and growth since 2017 going back to college.

I learned from them and also I had to ‘show up’ each and everyday for the next 8 years … Homeland Vietnamese culture is a driving force for me I guess??? It created change and allowed me to experience the varieties of ‘phở’.

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After understanding the cycle of middle-aged work life, I understand it is both a balance of working and doing more and peace/balance.

People who got this far in life actually want to stay here but it sometimes is too much at times and they need refuge in harmony and nature and to help others.

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How far did I go? Not far. There are people working for Fortune 5 companies and people 15 years into physics research and quantum computing.

I guess life really actually depends on your wants and needs. I can not push myself to work at those companies and can not do that kind of research.

That is why parents don’t stress out when their kids fail really. As long as they tried their best and had a good time that is all that matters. Especially in the West.

However, grandparents actually still want you to become a ‘medical doctor’ MD to get the finest things and broadest life experience still LOL! in your lifetime.

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Life in the West and life elsewhere …

If you don’t do this or that then what is the point of living in the West???

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