Updates (Oct 29, 2025)
Maybe your source of life as a man is still your parents from the Vietnam War era.
This is because your parents are new to the West. There is not solid history of Vietnamese in the West and your parents are the only strong foundation and guidance here because they are immigrants with a backbone.
Can’t go without a captain.
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It comes to a point at old age, after middle-age, that you realize this as a Vietnamese born in Canada …
You got to get to the point where all your experiences and problems cumulate to where you have that wisdom and foresight over 90% of people shopping at your local supermarket …
To do so, required me to just do my thing since 2020.
My wants and needs in the things I want to do in the West, gave me clarity and a mindset to go and then see.
100% of it was just because I did what I wanted really.
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Did going to school for life sciences and healthcare work really help show me the path???
Born and living in the West you are supposed to do what you want 120% … …. …
Then you can say I did something my way and I have my opinion that is 20 – 50 miles deep.
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It seems like after the hailstorm of people and life …
The thing is that I am still early in the game. Developing a web studio is still 8 years down the road.
The only thing I can do is my projects and advertise and promote others.
I did not start computer coding when I was 9 years old so I am at least 11 – 15 years behind at my current age. But hey … that is life.
No sweat. It is what it is.
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What I can do now …
Develop personal and team projects and promote and collab with others.
That is something I guess.
I can work and live on that for now. I am lucky. I am lucky to live in the West and do this.
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So I finally learned this … after soloing life out for years after 2020. I should have soloed earlier …
After socializing the other day, I found 4 methods to live well in the West …
- Like other Asian people/groups since the dawn of time, stay in your group, stay with your friends and do your thing along and out of sight as a Vietnamese born in Canada. This way you keep growing and live OK. Constantly doing your thing is important as a South Vietnamese man born in Canada as I can not rely on agricultural work in Canada to sustain me even though I am an agricultural man genetically.
- Accept the negative treatment and reply, “Do what you like to me.” and see the reaction.
- Reply back, “In Eurasia I am fine”. There is something in the water here …
- Tell people, “If I accept how people treat me here, therefore I can not live for myself. Therefore the only solution is I must go back home to Vietnam which is a viable option”. After this reply, everyone stops treating you bad as that is so cruel. Then people reevaluate themselves. Living in Vietnam is actually normal like everywhere else in Eurasia. If I live in Vietnam, it is actually OK because I lived there for 6+ months and it is not what the Western media says it is. It is just like everywhere else in Eurasia.
Now I finally know how to live for myself normally like every other Vietnamese dude. Reply so people reevaluate their conscious and subconscious treatment towards you.
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After blogging for the last 2 weeks, I have grown and gotten older.
My friends have noticed that there is a maturity change.
I learned to get around the problems of being so passive and reacting 1:1 a bit.
This is mainly because of growth (building out the projects/refactoring) and doing what I like. I socialize with my friends Tony and Tammy regularly for that communication to think normal and sort.
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I did not know life would go to this old mature stage. I guess it had to. Life moves on.
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The thing about life in the Americas is the ‘whole machine’. Americas need immigrants to run the economic engine mainly. There is a draw to come to the Americas to make it work and make it worth while. Americas has this ‘frequency’ that draws people all over the world here … And it is quite OK.
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You realize the people that have an opinion of you will one day be in your position … 2 – 5 years down the road.
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How I feel about being Southern Vietnamese from An Giang …
The area where my parents were born was a part of Cambodia 400+ years ago from 1100 to 1900 AD.
The water and location changes you and your genes. In 400 AD, the area was Funan.
I think some of my cousins have dated and married Cambodian people as it is normal to in An Giang.
But the location where my parents are from is more East and further South than AngKor making them more Eastern culturally and more sunny.
So I am from an Cambodian area that is more Eastern and more dark … that is what it is.
It is good to learn more about history when it is Southeast Asia. I got to a point where I find it time well spent and feel it is normal and right now.
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